We think of travel as easy… Bach and Chopin, both travellers. But how did they travel?P/C Wikimedia sources…. but back in the day, getting from point A to point B could be difficult and lengthy. If was to travel from Paris to Major…
I didn’t expect that.Lock image by Eyeball3000 When I tried to badge into my workplace, into my Google building at 4:30AM last Friday morning, the badge just didn’t work. No click, no dice. It was dark, cold, and very, very quiet. …
I’m a classical music fan… Bach and Chopin, both travellers. But how did they travel?P/C Wikimedia sources…. and I’ve read more than my share of books about the musicians that I admire. But as you also might expect, I’m curious abo…
I took a photo, but can’t remember where it’s from… Happens to me all the time. Naturally, I’ll use Reverse Image Search (also known as “Search by Image”) to find out what it is. But as you might know, Google’s Revers…
Staying on top of an emerging topic… P/C MidJourney. Prompt: “unanticipated consequences, realistic”… is a continual issue for professional researchers. Often, your work can’t be answered and “solved” in a single search sessio…
As you might remember… P/C MidJourney. Prompt: “unanticipated consequences, realistic”… I’m also working on another book about Unanticipated Consequences. In particular, you might remember that 18 months ago, I asked about ho…
In the pre-dawn quiet, somewhere on the north coast of California, I looked up into the soft, cold, gentle mist… Rainy day on the Northern California coast… letting it play over my face. It’s a reflective gesture, especially on New Year’s …
Once again we’re at the close of the year… Sunset over the Pacific with a tiny green flash… and I’m trying to summarize all that happened in SRS as a way of looking back over the year. It’s a bit of a complicated story–we certainl…
Colorful tropical birds… Keel-billed Toucan in Belize, Arctic tern in Alaska. P/C William Walker © 2016, 2010 see: BirdWalker.comLead us to a mystery–don’t tropical birds seem much more colorful than the bir…
Colorful tropical birds… Keel-billed Toucan in Belize, Arctic tern in Alaska. P/C William Walker © 2016, 2010 see: BirdWalker.com… are one of the glories of the avian world. And I’ve noticed something odd–don’t tropical …
I was reading in the hammock… Image by Parti. Prompt: “Robot swimming in a sea of text” … in my parents backyard, swinging beneath a guava tree and reading scads of science fiction and old National Geographic magazines. It was summe…
It can seem magical… … when you realize that you have the ability to read another language, especially one that you don’t know and in a script that you can’t even identify. But that’s what this week’s Challenge was all about–a…
I’m never one to turn down an SRS opportunity… As you can imagine, in the back pocket of my mind I’ve got 4 or 5 SearchResearch Challenges queued up and ready to go, questing ever onward bringing you the tidbits of knowledge we all need in…
I ended last week’s post with this… Once you know that other animals capture and eat bats, you can do a more direct search for them (e.g., [ spider eats bat ]) and get even more articles to expand your range of bat-dining predators, i…
Bats are mysterious… Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) P/C C. Robillier, from Wikimedia…. creatures of the night, and you have to admit they have a real PR problem–vampires, high-pitched squeaky noises, their long assoc…