Travel is broadening. That’s what they say… And I think they’re right. Although, as Dave Barry says: “The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here…
Travel is a great source of puzzlements. Everytime I travel somewhere (and I get to travel fairly often for my job), I come across things that surprise and amaze me.Recently I had the chance to travel to northwestern Europe on business, but I was confu…
Face it: Tracking down quotes was never easy… As I said last week, it used to be that when you heard a quote you liked, you looked for it in one of those big books of quotations (such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations or the Yale Book of Quotations)….
It used to be that quotations were pretty easy. If you heard a quote you liked, you looked for it in one of those big books of quotations (such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations or the Yale Book of Quotations), and if it wasn’t in there, only the brave…
In 1782…. … the new United States was negotiating for a treaty with Great Britain. But things were moving a bit to slowly for Benjamin Franklin, who took up the fake news strategy writing an entirely made-up, fake letter. The letter, (purportedly f…
This is tricky. This week we’ve been investigating the connection between the weather changing and aches/pains in the body. Is it a real thing when your aged parent complains about the changes in the weather? I’ve often wondered this, and in doing a …
Myths and folk tales sometimes… … have their origin in reality. This week we take up one of the most persistent of all folk stories–the connection between weather changing and aches/pains in the body. You’ve probably heard this before from your …
Masses of animals fascinate… Birds, bugs, mammals–when they all get together in vast quantities, they amaze us. This week we want to search out two particular kinds of swarming animals to get a sense for how many of them move en masse together, an…
A large number of any living creatures moving together is always a sight to behold… It could be the vast rivers of wildebeests that annually migrate in Africa, or millions of passenger pigeons that once darkened the skies of North America, or the mo…
Travel is an endless source of SearchResearch… While in DC I found this fountain that seemed so out-of-place and unlike other fountains that I had to wonder what the backstory was. As you can see below (look at the very plain fountain two pictures d…
While wandering through DC… … I came across a most remarkable water fountain. While there’s no water running in the fountain now, it clearly used to be a fountain. But what an unusual form! How fantastically decorative! As I walked around the f…
Simple really is best. The key getting really good at searching is to keep a very open mind about what works–because what works best will change over time. And sometimes, the simplest approach often works. Let’s take a look at how I searched for the…
Simple really is best. This perhaps most true in your SearchResearches. And yet one of the most common search mistakes I see in my studies is people using WAAY too complicated terms to search for simple things. Here are a few quick Search Challenges …
Every so often… … one gets reminded of what they don’t remember. In this week’s case, Regular Reader Fred Delventhal left a really nice comment on yesterday’s post. He wrote (minor edits are mine): Youtube filtering allows you to limit your searc…
How do you get immersed, if you can’t find what you want to be immersed in?There are lots of “immersive” videos out there. Here’s a nice example from David Hsieh: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OzlksZBTiA ) And we know about the NYTimes VR stori…