As you might have seen yesterday… … this week we’re thinking about how to do SearchResearch for News / Late-breaking information. Finding credible news information is an incredibly important skill to have–especially these day…
How to find News and Late Breaking Information (part 1) Foreword: This is part one of our chapter on finding news (and late-breaking information). We’ve divided it up into pieces because posting one giant post is a bit too much…
It’s true… … I really was looking at a sunflower when I had this insight–the deep connections between the sunflower, the skeleton of a snake, and the Hawaiian archipelago. My initial thought process was roughly this:&nbs…
While looking at a sunflower the other day… … I had an insight… and thought I’d share this with you. I realized that there is a deep, underlying, common property that connects the sunflower to the skeleton of a snake to the Hawai…
Trying to find answers is easy… … sometimes. This week’s Challenge is a great mix of straightforward and complex. Let’s dive right in. The Challenges were: 1. “Slagbaai” is the name of a large park on Bonaire. …
The Caribbean is a wonderful place… This is sunset from the tiny beach on the south side of Kralendijk (how to pronounce), the capital city of Bonaire. Yes, the sunsets really do look like that. I’ve visited many times, and stil…
Searching for a path.. … is almost always a fruitful thing to do. It’s especially wonderful when you’re exploring, trying to connect different pieces of your world together. That’s what we’re trying to do with this little…
When I was a kid, I spent several happy years growing up in Cottonwood, Arizona. If you’re young, it’s basically endless wilderness to explore. Cactus, coyotes, roadrunners, snakes, and scorpions: perfect! That early sense of fre…
I often find myself asking”What’s THAT?” A Regular SRS Reader pointed out that this is the 3rd or 4th time we’ve had an SRS Challenge asking “What’s that?” It’s a fair point–we do get these kinds of posts a lot, but mostly becau…
I often find myself asking”What’s THAT?” Perhaps you do too. Most of the time, a Google search tells us what the object of our interest is. But sometimes it doesn’t quite work the way you expect. Here are three t…
We had lots of comments this week… … which made me happy. Lots of people checked in to write something (including a few folks who haven’t stopped by the blog in a while)! As you remember, the Challenge was: &…
It’s a complicated time…Looking out to sea.. and the next week or so will be especially complicated, so rather than have me post a Challenge, I’d like to hear from you, my Regular SRS Readers (R-SRS-Rs). 1. What’s YOUR SRS stor…
Searching slowly isn’t the norm… 1.5 million balloons over ClevelandIn fact, people search engine companies go to a lot of trouble to make sure that searches return results as quickly as possible. We know (see this paper, for instanc…
Suppose… 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland… that you want to write a book about something that you only partly understand but find fascinating. Obviously, you want to spend some time coming up to speed, perhaps learning about the…
Know how some animals use tools? P/C Cyberminnie at FlickrIn our last episode we saw this pom pom crab as it carries a sea anemone in each of its claws, using them as a defensive tool in the crab-eat-crab world on the coral reef. T…