What’re these things called? Background: I’ve seen paintings like this ever since I took Art History as an undergraduate. You know what they are–paintings of things that are NOT the things they depict. As you can see in the…
LOTS to talk about this week… Before we get to the SearchResearch Challenge, I want to tell you two things quickly: First… My article on “The Skills of Online Search and Research: Why research skills matter more than ever in the age …
I bet you’re wondering what happened. Me too. This took a LOT longer than expected… When I started, I wasn’t sure if this would be easy or difficult…It’s not obvious where you’d begin searching for this information. …
So…. … where DOES the trash go??? I was writing up my solution about the trash / recycling question. I’d read lots of documents, tons of tales, reads of city reports, and was just about to hit publish.But then I paused. I…
Where does your recycling go… really?? A recent spate of stories about how lots of supposedly recycled stuff actually ends up in the trash (NPR story; NERC story; Wired story) made me start wondering about where my trash and re…
Hope you enjoyed the drone video… … as I said, it was a bit of a surprise to discover those old buildings suddenly appearing in my camera’s view! As you can see from the image of the round building just above and the video below (li…
Last week I was visiting Napa Valley… … and since it was a beautiful spring day, I went out for a bit of drone flying. I drove around for a bit, knowing full well that there are lots of rural roads that are dead ends, going part way…
As you know… I have a book coming out in late spring, and I need my crack SRS team-wisdom about the best possible subtitle. My book “The Joy of Finding Out,” is 20 stories (mostly inspired by this blog!) about how to do smart, effective, ac…
Whenever I see something that doesn’t make sense to me…… or when it’s something that just kind of sticks out… something that doesn’t match the rest of the background… my first reaction is to say “Huh!” When I hear myself saying that, I fi…
As you know, I often ask questions…… about the world, about things I notice, about interesting places, people, and events that folks point out to me. I thought I’d try to pull together some of these observational questions into a new seri…
I admit it: Music completely absorbs me… … taking up most of my cognitive capacity. That’s why I can’t listen to music as I work–my brain can’t NOT pay close attention. When I went to see the Gipsy Kings&nbs…
Welcome to 2019! A new year, with new Challenges and a few new ideas. First, a quick update on the book (The Joy of Finding Out): I’m in the last couple of days of copyediting. Then it goes back to the publisher so the…
It’s been quite a year… I made it back to Bonaire this year, looking for more parrotfish,and more Challenges. The tropics will return to SRS in themonths ahead! When I look back over the past twelve months of Challenges, answers, comm…
There’s a lot of construction going on… … and so there are a lot of cranes in the local Google landscape, including a bunch of very tall, very large, and very odd ones. So I was surprised when I saw tall poles on the construc…
More photos! I went over to the construction site and took a new photo today. It’s below. If you click on the image, you can download the original (with all of the EXIF metadata). This wasn’t ideal lighting conditions for ph…