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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...

I don't mean to have so many ichthyological Challenges, it's just that I can't help myself... When I go diving, the world is just SO different than the dry world on land.  That vast difference always makes me wonder what's going on....

I'm scuba diving again ... ... I know--not a big surprise.  But this time I'm diving with friends on a tropical island, taking a few underwater photos and finding remarkable things that require a bit of research when I get topside. &nbsp...

This was supposed to be simple... ... but as we know, even simple Research Questions can sometimes be more complicated than you'd think.  Here's what I did in each case... 1.  I've got a BIG (4 meters tall!) trellis of green be...

After the immensity of last week's Challenge... ... let's do something fun (but challenging in a good way).  During the past week, three questions came up for me, each of which I needed to do a bit of SRS sleuthing to figure them out.&nb...

I have to admit… … that writing this second part of the answer was WAAY more complicated than I expected.  It's more like writing about Planet Maps, a world of possibilities.  I’d thought I would just pull together a few ...

LOTS of comments this week... ... as Regular SRS Readers chimed in with great suggestions for their favorite geo-resources.  The new Google Earth on the web (https://www.google.com/earth/) is a fantasticgeo-located information resource.&...

You might have noticed... ... lots of the SearchResearch Challenges involve finding other resources--like mapping sites--and then using them to help answer the Challenge-of-the-Week.  The new Google Earth on the web (https://www.google.c...

Okay... by now I'm almost back into my Californian mindset...  ... but our Challenge from last week still remains.  Remember, I asked:  While there, I saw lots of wildlife.  Such as this anemonefish I found on Raiatea,&nbs...

A couple of weeks ago...... I asked what I thought was a simple question about "lanes" of quiet water that one can see on bodies of water.  Here's that Challenge:  2.  As we're sailing from place to place, it's not uncommon to see l...

I'm still in a Polynesian frame of mind... ... and so I've been thinking about what I saw in Tahiti and French Polynesia quite a bit over the past couple of weeks.  While there, I saw lots of wildlife.  Such as this anemonefish I fo...