Too much of anything can be a problem… … Too much water in the wrong place at the wrong time is a flood. And too many birds in the wrong place can be a problem as well. This week’s Challenge highlights a couple of wrong-…
Welcome to a new series of “How to Find… anything” posts. My friend Mario Callegaro and I have been talking for years about pulling together a series of posts that are all “How to Find…” mini-tutorials for a number of topics. O…
It’s remarkable what falls from the sky… Last week I posed these Challenges about objects falling from the sky. Were you able to figure them out? Here’s what I did to answer them… 1. As you can see in the abo…
Welcome to 2021! Before we get to our main topic today, let me give you a quick update on the blog. SearchResearch began just about 11 years ago, on January 30, 2010. Since then I’ve written 1218 posts (just over 1 / week) a…
Happy end of 2020! I’m sure 2020 will be the topic of endless PhD theses in the future, but at the moment, I’m just as happy to move on in to a brighter future.But I wanted to leave you with a little gift–a pro tip that I use all the …
This is the last SRS post of 2020…. …. thank heavens! As you know, it’s been a strange year, but we’ve soldiered forward with 26 Challenges (and 26 Answers), a bunch of additional content (both Extras and Public Service Announ…
Fascinating… AS YOU RECALL.. I was emailing with my artist friend Lynne Garell who captured a set of photos that are striking. I’ve never seen any leaves change color quite like this: A grape leaf closeup. P/C Lynne Gar…
A question I get asked a lot is… … “Where do you get your SearchResearch Challenge ideas?” As you know, our topics vary quite a bit. One week it might be identifying a wreck that I spotted somewhere off the California co…
The Mayflower story is encrusted with legend and the legacy of centuries of story-telling… Image by Sabrina Ripke from PixabayAs noted, 2020 is the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing to North America, and the 3…
I hadn’t expected a mysterious monolith in the Utah desert, let alone one that reminded me of the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey… P/C Utah Dept. Public Safety video frame… but then again, the Utah Department of Public Safety helicopt…
Even during COVID-19, Image by Sabrina Ripke from Pixabay… Americans are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday (a festival that we’ve discussed before in SRS, to wit, we asked Original Cranberry Recipe? and What and Why …
Date shakes…. yum….. Shields Date Farm–with excellent date milkshakes and fascinating educational videos.I haven’t been to Indio in probably 20 years, so I was fairly surprised when I happened to look at the Coachella Valley…
When I was young my family would go on long car trips… Shields Date Farm–with excellent date milkshakes.I know, it’s a quintessentially American thing to do, but that’s what we did in the summers of my youth–travel from Los Angeles…
These days I find myself searching for data more often… … if only to reassure myself that there really is a quantifiable perspective on the world. Data isn’t objective, but it’s harder to fake your argument if there’s data to look at and…
These are complicated days, and it’s unclear what or who’s in control… From the Apollo Operations Handbook Block II Spacecraft (October 15, 1969). This is a truly complicated user interface. P/C NASABetween the drama of the US …