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 There's much to learn here... ... and since the previous post was growing so long, I separated out the SRS Lessons Learned section for today.  Let's dive right in... SearchResearch Lessons Learned  This Challenge--trying ...

 This kind of question is difficult to answer... The Challenge was:  "Why is the Carquinez Strait so undeveloped on the south side of the channel?"  As evidence, I made this map to highlight the area that is still most open ran...

It's a mystery to me... As I flew out of the San Francisco airport on a clear fall day, I noticed a vast imbalance in the landscape below, an asymmetry that I couldn't quite understand.  See that image above?  Notice anything odd about i...

 A small celebration is in order...... in total, SRS has, to date ...  ... this week, SearchResearch passed 4 million reads since its inception in January of 2010.  I know some number of those reads are by bots, but I suspect t...

Another lesson... As we've discussed before, in general, if you just ASK people nicely, they'll often point you to what you seek.  We've seen this before in getting copies of papers and articles that are behind paywalls, and in getting prepri...

 Documentary and older films are a   quiet pleasure... But finding them can be hard.  What are the tips you use for finding older and less common films?  (Or, more specifically, videos of films... although in an ...

 Documentary and older films are a    quiet pleasure... ... I love watching them, but sometimes find them a bit difficult to find.  Maybe you have this problem as well.  Ideally, I'd like to watch them for free, but I...

 Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow?  (installment #3) This is part 3 of the time & date from a shadow Challenge. This is all about using tools, and checking to make sure the tools work the way you think!&...

 Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow? This is part 2 of the time&date from a shadow Challenge.  In this post I talk about some of the workarounds I tried in order to get an accurate answer to the question. ...

 Can you actually get the time and date from just a shadow? This isn't the post I thought I was going to make. As you'll see, this has turned out to be much more complicated than I thought it would be.  So I'm going to do this as a multi...

 I have to admit to loving difficult Challenges... ... and this one was (I admit) harder than I expected... and much more fun!A sundial at 7:30AM in Southern California, as seen on one of my runs near Bolsa Chica.A Cautionary Tale for Teacher...

 Photos usually have more information in them than you might expect... This is a photo of the SkyTree in Tokyo, Japan.  (That is, 東京スカイツリー, Tōkyō Sukaitsurī) It's the tallest tower in the world--taller than the Canton Tower (which w...

The parrotfish were plentiful... Diving with a few friends at the Salt Pier... and the weather very fine on Bonaire this past week.  But in my post that told you I was here, I presented two small mysteries about these next photos.&n...

 Floods come in all sizes...  But this week we're interested in the biggest floods that have reshaped the land at large.  What can we learn about such events?  Here's the Challenge from 2 weeks ago:1. Can you find the 3 la...

 It's been a long, lovely week... Diving with a few friends at the Salt Pier... while vacationing in Bonaire, the home to parrotfish (see our previous discussion of parrotfish in SRS) and many other wonderful things to investigate.  I'm ...