As you know, I love music… … that’s not a surprise. What might be a surprise is that I used to NOT understand why some people would make noises while the musical performance is going on. I don’t mean babies crying (t…
As soon as I clicked “Publish” I realized I’d forgotten to… … add in some of the good stuff in my notes file. IN PARTICULAR… If you recall, a big part of the point of this week’s Challenge was to find similarities between COVID an…
Archival newspapers are a great resource… … if you can find them… AND if you can understand them. I have to admit that I spent a LOT of time on this Challenge. It was just a fascinating bit of research. The more …
The most undervalued resource on the internet… … is probably the archive of newspapers. Reading through old news is incredibly illuminating of our own time. You can, in many cases, see the Future Through the Past. As some…
This one was pure fun… Names (for things, people, places, songs, continents, concepts) are important! The Challenge for this week was to identify a few names that might not be what you think! These weren’t especially d…
In a recent article for the New York Times, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz published a fascinating story (Google Searches Can Help Us Find Emerging Covid-19 Outbreaks) about using Google Trends to find coronavirus outbreaks in other countries, as well a…
Names aren’t as simple as you’d think… As we know, having the right name for something can be very important in doing your online research. (We’ve talked about this before: terms, part names, geo and bio names. We’ll probably talk about it in th…
As you might recall… I put out a short video, a One-Minute Morceau (aka 1MM) on my Search Education YouTube channel this week. Each is a short video between 1 and 5 minutes long with a brief SRS strategy or tactic for you. &n…
Complex questions… … abound in these days of COVID-19 / coronavirus. P/C CDC.govhttps://www.cdc.gov/This week’s Challenge was: 1. During the past 2 weeks, what SearchResearch Challenges have you confronted about COVI…
We live in an information rich world… … but with the rise of COVID-19 / Coronavirus, we’ve been living in an information universe that is overwhelmed by a tsunami of content–some of it good, some it misleading, some of it questionable, and so…
Context is…everything! As you know by now, the most common answer to a SRS Challenge is “it depends.” What does it depend on? A: Context. Gee, thanks! As you’ll see below, context is all of the infor…
In these days of lockdown and quarantine, I thought I’d write a few posts about things we should know to make it through this time. This is the first of my special quarantine posts! As work changes during this time of pandemi…
When we answer a search Challenge… … we usually just give the answer, and since it’s SearchResearch, we give the method by which we found the answer. But sometimes, an answer needs to be a bit more than just an answer. Sometim…
Sorry about the delay. You can guess what I’m doing! (Yes, I’m off SCUBA diving one more time. Expect more exciting challenges about the natural history of islands.) However, my trip to <an unnamed location> is relevant to …
The other day I was interviewed on the radio… But because we live in a world of streaming media, you can listen to the whole conversation anytime you’d like. In fact, I was interviewed twice. Once by radio host Bob Laughton on t…