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Yep... I was in New Orleans...  P/C Hitesh Choudhary... at a conference with just over 2,000 of my friends.  It was a wonderful time, right up until the last day when I felt pretty sick (felt like a bad head cold + muscular soreness...

 I have a wonderful video I want to recommend to you.  It's about what this mysterious circle of circles is... In this video from Vox, they explore the limits of what you can find by internet searching, and go beyond the limit when they ...

 This past week I was in New Orleans... P/C Hitesh Choudhary... that fabled city along a bend of the Mississippi, home to classic jazz, crawfish etouffee, po boy sandwiches, and a confluence of many cultures from around the world. &...

 It's true!  This IS a picture of the University of North Carolina very actively watering an artificial turf.  I took this pic one sunny afternoon not long before the field hockey team was about to take the field.  Of cour...

 I couldn't believe my eyes!  As a native Californian, I'm sensitive to water use and I'm drawn to extravagant displays of water.  Waterfalls attract me, rivers and even creeks capture my attention. (And you know I love the sea.)&nb...

 Watching the sun... ... is something that humans have done since we noticed that it traces out a pattern in the sky over the course of a year.  Of course, it's much easier to do this if you live on an open plain, where it's obvious that...

We all watch the sun... ... sometimes with sunscreen, but nearly always at sunrise and sunset.  We notice when the days grow shorter or longer, and as we've seen in earlier SRS Challenges, it's an endless source of fascination for people, sha...

 How is this like that? .Seems to me that noticing how ideas, people, places, and words all link together is a fundamental to creative thought.  Last week's Challenge was an example of this kind of connective thinking, one that...

 Finding connections... ... is a good part of what I do in my day-to-day work.  As a professional researcher, I often look at data and try to figure out what this data is telling me, and how it connects to other things I know about. In p...

  Seeing the Earth from space... ... is a truly remarkable ability. It literally changes your perspective.  What's even better, in these days of ever-cheaper costs to fly a satellite, and the increasing capabilities of small satelli...

 We live in a complicated time... ... with all kinds of conflicts, disasters, and changes in the landscape of our world. There's a conflict in Ukraine, recent fires in Colorado, massive flooding in eastern Australia, and conflicts over fishin...

  We live in a multi-media world...   So why shouldn't search engines work on audio files as well?  This question originally came up for me when I was looking for a particular episode of RadioLab.  This is a wonderful...

 Podcasts?  Well, of course!  While I have my usual line-up of podcasts that I like (you can see some of them above), every so often I'll want to search around through audio to find something that's particularly on my topic of inter...

 #8.3  Assessing Credibility of News Sources Foreword:  This is part two of our chapter on finding news (and late-breaking information).  Mario Callegaro and I have been writing this to let you know some of the best practices i...

 This flower has changed names... P/C Daniel M. Russell (2022).. which is fairly common thing to do.  People generally call this a shooting star, although I've always known this particular flower as Dodecatheon hendersonii...