Now that you can search for unicode characters and emoji… … what are you going to do with it? Today’s Challenge is simple, and it requires you to be slightly clever. Can you find interesting and useful cases when a search includes an emoji or a sp…
Welcome to SearchResearch post #900! Remarkably enough, we’ve somehow gotten from my first post on January 30, 2010 to this post, which is #900 in the series. First SRS post In that very first post, I wrote: _________________________Saturday, Januar…
This is a big question… And this caused me to do a lot of research over the past week. I did SO much that I’m a bit late in posting my answer. I’ll talk about this later in this post, but I wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about th…
A few weeks ago… … my travels took me on a tour of the Greek islands. I don’t know why they weren’t on my bucket list before now, but they were such a beautiful place that I’ll definitely return in the future. It was that nice. On Santorini, the…
An important skill to have….. is that of knowing how to figure out who’s posting this article. In other words, a really important skill is that of being able to figure out who’s behind an article. Although this is something we should have learned i…
When I teach students….. about doing online research, one of things I tell them is to figure out who’s posting this article. In other words, find out who wrote it, and what their possible motivations for writing this particular article really are. …
Once upon a time……banks and lending institutions really wanted to make a pro-social mark in the landscape. To that end, they commissioned lots of public art, sometimes placing it in civic spaces (parks, city centers, etc.), but most often they enh…
Growing up in Southern California tends to put everything in a particular light. It’s true–the light in SoCal really is different than the light in other parts of the world. Sure, sometimes it’s a bit foggy (or even smoggy), but often there’s a kind o…
Ooops. I forgot about something in my answer yesterday. When you look for the Farallons, you have to think about WHERE you’re standing. In the original Challenge I asked: And where should I stand?That’s an important part of the question. If you’re …
Ah ha! I’m back! Over the past couple of weeks I HAVE done a bit of flying, and you’ll see a few future Challenges come out of that vacation experience. Along the way I found plumes of smoke (that I was able to identify thanks to our earlier discuss…
I’m about to go flying again… … and you know what happens… I tend to look out the window and gaze at the land and sea passing by below. I often end up wondering–What IS that thing I see below me?This week I present a few mysteries–things I’ve…
Remember Philae? You might recall the Challenge we had in April 2014 about Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Philae and Rosetta. Back then we wondered about how hard the comet was, and how difficult it would be to land Philae, the descent-lander on t…
As you might imagine… I’m interested in how much people understand the world around them, and in particular, how much they understand about what they read. How do we learn about how the world works? One important way is by incidental learning, o…
Generally speaking, I’m fairly easy-to-get-along kind of guy… Not much really irritates me. But one thing that DOES irritate me is when people needlessly make something simple into something that’s purposefully obfuscated and hard to understand. Th…
This was an interesting Challenge. Last week I posted a few images of concrete poles standing in a somewhat mysterious forest/jungle on the North Shore of Oahu. Here are those photos again: As I mentioned, these things are scattered all over the plac…