I’m interested in a variety of topics.. … If you’ve been reading SRS for a while you know I’m fascinated by matters cognitive, aquatic, geologic, musical, and biological. We’ve also talked about historical issues and hysterical tales. …
Still enchanted… … even though Ranz des Vaches has been an earworm for this week. Recall that I found this YouTube video with the song “Ranz des Vaches” as sung by Bernard Romanens. Bernard Romanens singing …
I guess I’m still in a Central European frame of mind… A few weeks ago we had a Challenge about the song that goes “eins, zwei, g’suffa.” In the process of doing my research for that Challenge, I ran across a hauntingly beautiful song…
I guess I’m still in a Central European frame of mind… A few weeks ago we had a Challenge about the song that goes “eins, zwei, g’suffa.” In the process of doing my research for that Challenge, I ran across a hauntingly beautiful song…
You can simply read a page,… or you can READ a page with some intelligence. One of the important skills I teach in my search classes is Reading through the fluff. Or, in a catchier turn of phrase, reading with a Fluff Filte…
A little out of sequence… … but with this post, we’ll get back on track. Recall what this Challenge was: Flying back to the US from Europe I looked out the window and saw a few islands glinting greenly on the sea. W…
I didn’t realize until now… … that I’d accidentally gotten off by one week. I SHOULD have answered the previous Challenge last Wednesday rather than written a new Challenge. But I woke up last Wednesday morning with that question (“…
Lyrics aren’t always intelligible… … and I don’t mean just punk songs with screaming lead singers or hip-hop artists and with obscure terms that I don’t quite get. I’ll sometimes think of a song and somehow get the lyrics a little w…
At long last… … Google’s Dataset search tool is now out of Beta and ready for your consideration. You can use it to find open-access datasets. Just search on the topic of interest and you’ll see a list of results on the left-s…
Every so often a mystery appears… … and if you’re a SearchResearcher, you have to ask What’s going on here? Of course, that led us to a tough Challenge last time. So THIS time, let’s follow up with a somewhat simpler set of Ch…
I should have known…. …. that this SRS Challenge was more complicated than I’d expected. I’ve been working on it for the past week! As I wrote 2 weeks ago… Rainbows are fairly straightforward. Here’s a…
We live in a remarkable world… …. if only you take the time to notice it. Here’s an example of what I mean. The other day as I was walking into work, it had been raining, and we had a glorious rainbow. Here’s my photo of…
I’m often surprised… … when a Search Challenge turns out to be unexpectedly difficult. Alas, this happens more often than I’d like. You’d expect that by now I’d have a good sense for what makes a SearchResearch question easy or har…
Goodbye to 2019 and welcome 2020!Sunset on NYE 2019.I’ll write up the answer to the previous Challenge tomorrow. But for today I want to take a quick look back and ask what you liked about 2019’s string of Challenges. I’m asking for tw…
In some sense… … this blog is all about documents that are difficult to find. We search for articles about life deep underground, or rivers in Spain, or sex ratios of different animals. But sometimes we need to find A SPECIFIC…