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As you know, I love diving... ... and although I never go much below 100 feet (33 meters), I'm fascinated by the creatures that live way down deep in the sea.  They're interesting, wonderful, and exceedingly strange.  But... as I wa...

I bet you’re a skilled online searcher... ....if you’re reading this, you might even be an expert at online search. Note:  This post originally appeared in the blog, Connected Learning.  But improving your search skills is one ...

I first noticed the river's end because it didn't make any sense to me...  When I went on my run, I got to that point at the river's edge and noticed that it just sort of... stopped!  That's the part that didn't look right to me.  H...

Travel is always surprising.  At least it is to me.  I go somewhere, and I usually find myself asking WHY questions.  I know I must sound like a 6-year old—why...why...why...why— but those questions often lead to fun adventures...

You'd expect it to be a 50/50 split... ... that is, the split of sexes in any particular animal population. But, as we've noticed before the majority of parrotfish on a reef are female (see our earlier blog post about parrotfish).&n...

I read an interesting article... ... in The Atlantic Monthly.  To wit, The Quirk of Collecting That Skews Museum Specimens Male, and had a sudden insight... Even though I know that the majority of parrotfish on a reef are femal...

This wasn't that hard... ... but the backstory is DEFINITELY a surprise.  Well, it was to me.    Remember: I found this cute little lobster image: and wanted to know.... 1.  Where is this lobster image from?&nbsp...

I don't normally blog about new YouTube videos, but when I do, there's a reason. After showing the long-lived and beloved Matt Cutts video "How Search Works," Google has finally released a few version of that brilliant explanatory video. So, this her...

I sometimes find things... ... in my files that are funny and odd... and I have no clue about what they are, how they got there, or what the backstory is.  After last week's epic SearchResearch Challenge, I was cleaning up my files. (Yes...

Questions come from everywhere... ... in this case, I was just staring out the window and wondering "how did all of this landscape come to be?"   As I said, when I looked into the Sierra foothills  just northeast of San Francisco, i...

As I was flying to Seattle... ... I had the window seat that faced east as we flew north.  Not long after we left SFO, I was staring out the window (because looking out an airplane window when you fly over wilderness is just the best thi...

Palm trees are wonderful, but very strange... As you might suspect, they're not ordinary trees, but something very, very different.  They're generally super-tall, able to remain standing in hurricane force winds.  If you cut on...

Strangely, ... palm trees line the Embarcadero, the grand boulevard that wraps around the top of San Francisco.  I'm not sure how they manage it here--it's cool and often foggy, nothing like the deserts or tropical isles where palms are ...

As I bicycled around town... ... I saw a palm tree that stood out from my local urban landscape.  It was easily 100 feet tall, and REALLY rose well above the line of buildings and other urban trees.  I thought to myself, "now that&n...

¡Flash!  The Joy of Search is now available in your local bookstore!  I stopped by my local bookstore (Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA) and was just browsing new releases on the "Big Ideas" table.  Lo and behold... there is was!&nbs...