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 I hadn't expected a mysterious monolith in the Utah desert, let alone one that reminded me of the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey... P/C Utah Dept. Public Safety video frame... but then again, the Utah Department of Public Safety helicopt...

 Even during COVID-19, Image by Sabrina Ripke from Pixabay... Americans are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday (a festival that we've discussed before in SRS, to wit, we asked Original Cranberry Recipe? and What and Why ...

 Date shakes.... yum.....   Shields Date Farm--with excellent date milkshakes and fascinating educational videos.I haven't been to Indio in probably 20 years, so I was fairly surprised when I happened to look at the Coachella Valley...

 When I was young my family would go on long car trips...  Shields Date Farm--with excellent date milkshakes.I know, it's a quintessentially American thing to do, but that's what we did in the summers of my youth--travel from Los Angeles...

 These days I find myself searching for data more often... ... if only to reassure myself that there really is a quantifiable perspective on the world. Data isn't objective, but it's harder to fake your argument if there's data to look at and...

 These are complicated days, and it's unclear what or who's in control... From the Apollo Operations Handbook Block II Spacecraft (October 15, 1969).  This is a truly complicated user interface.  P/C NASABetween the drama of the US ...

 The kelp forests are magnificent.But how are they faring in the face of climate change? Photo by Dan, taken in a kelp forest near Santa Rosa island.As I mentioned in the Challenge, I mean JUST kelp--that is, members of the Laminari...

 One of the glories of plant life on planet Earth are the great kelp forests along the coasts... Photo by Dan, taken in a kelp forest near Santa Rosa island.Near me, along the coast of California, is an 800 mile long coast that has historical...

Exclusive SearchResearch news flash! PowerSearching LogoThe PowerSearchingWithGoogle online class is moving to the edX platform!  If you're a Regular Reader of SearchResearch, this is a course you might have already taken.  But for ...

 Curiosity...... is one of those personality traits that some people find endearing while annoying others.  Personally, I'm a curious person, so I find a curious person to be engaging and fun.  This week's Challenges are drawn from ...

 Curiosity...... is one of those personality traits that some people find endearing while annoying others.  Personally, I'm a curious person, so I find a curious person to be engaging and fun.  This week's Challenges are drawn from ...

 Yesterday I made an interesting mistake.. I'd seen an animated GIF of a cat.  I thought I'd like to see it in detail, so I did what I thought was an obvious search.  I did:      [ cat filetype:gif]on the regular...

A bit more on fact-checking… Google puts in a fair bit of effort to surface fact-check information in the results.  As you search, be sure to pay attention to the fact-check labels as they’re put on the page to evaluate questionable informati...

 I'm sure this happens to you... You're out and about when something captures your eye.  Quick! Pull out the phone/camera and grab the image.  Later, when you get back home, you can look it up.  (Usually.)  Recently I...

We all need some basic fact-checking skills... This week's Challenge was about what you do in your personal fact-checking.  How often do you check?  How do you check?  What do you check? A wave of assertions comes at you every ...