Rivers ultimately flow to the sea.. … except when they don’t. As the pair of pictures above show, the thing about these places is that they are often closed off from free flow between the mountains and the sea. Sometimes a big p…
If you wander along coastlines as I do, you’ll eventually see this… … the place where a river runs to the sea. It’s always a dramatic place–fresh water meets salt water, and wildlife often congregates due to the fish that hang out …
Symbol recognition… P/C Dan…. usually happens unconsciously, or at least very rapidly. Our world is full of symbols that we see, yet might not really understand. Here are a few such symbols… what are they? What d…
We think of ourselves as literate… P/C Dan…. and as we’ve discussed before, “literacy” means many things to different people. But a common aspect of literacy is understanding the meaning of the different signs that we see in our eve…
As you know, P/C Christina Morillo (Pexels)… I don’t often recommend articles about how to do research. That’s not because I don’t read a lot of them–I do–I just mostly find them not especially helpful.But today I read a great arti…
We’ve talked about this before… An actual waterfall (not synthetic). P/C Pexels. Whenever you search for something, you need to understand what you’re searching for! I know that seems obvious, but this is a very …
Suddenly, I couldn’t do this… It was fairly distressing. Why could I NOT fly through 3D landscapes using Google Maps? As you probably know, IF you’re in Google Maps with Satellite view turned on (that is, you can see the ground,…
I’m fascinated by all things aquatic… An actual waterfall (not synthetic). P/C Pexels. … so it’s not a huge surprise that I would search for the world’s largest waterfall, wondering if I could visit it sometime. But…
Getting to the right keywords…. … sometimes takes some time and a willingness to look at the search problem differently. Let me tell you my story of searching for this thing. Our original Challenge was: 1. What does one call t…
I was in Rome, Italy the other day… … (it’s a long story, trust me)… … but while there, I saw this thing hanging from the ceiling of a party tent. The strange thing was that at this location there were 3 more inside the te…
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…