We use genres to sort movies. You know if you’re in the mood for a comedy, a thriller, or one of those documentaries about a guy who befriends an octopus. It’s a neat, tidy way to categorize stories. The other day, I was at a party, and it hit me. It wasn’t just that people […]
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Kessler Syndrome, named after NASA scientist Donald Kessler, is a theoretical scenario that describes a cascading chain reaction of collisions in space, primarily in low Earth orbit (LEO). Proposed in 1978, this phenomenon occurs when the density of objects in orbit becomes so high that collisions between these objects generate additional debris. Each collision can
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The Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80/20 rule, is a powerful concept that suggests that for many phenomena, approximately 80% of effects come from 20% of the causes. This principle is named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who first observed this phenomenon in the late 19th century. His observations have since been applied
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