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The odd and unusual are fun to search for!  As we noticed last week, there are lots of fascinating sporting (if you use that term loosely) events in the world, many of which deserve a bit of background research.  I love th...

There are plenty of amazing sports... ... many of which strike me as pretty unusual.  There's the annual wife-carrying competition (multiple locations), an international "worm charming" championship in Chesire (UK), and the locally well-...

The trumpet shall sound! This week's Challenge was a fun one, and tests your ability to sleuth out the backstory. I was walking down the street when I heard an odd trumpet tune being played.  It was a surprising tune--not quite a melody,...

They say that travel broadens the mind... ... and sets you up for some pretty remarkable surprises.  This week's Challenge is a fun one, and will test your ability to sleuth out the backstory.  Can you do it? I was walking down...

Where was I?    This week's Challenge is another in our series of "What's the story?"  This week's Challenge wasn't difficult in the ordinary sense. (I figure that you'll be able to search out the place and name of the things.)...

I'm in a port city somewhere in the English-speaking world.  This place is full of remarkable places, and in my walkabout today I saw two things that I didn't know anything about, and for which there was basically no signage.  I suppose ...

So.... I'm about to head over to Scotland for a conference all of next week, but SRS will continue unabated!  (Assuming I can get a bit of wifi in a coffee shop somewhere.)  I'm looking forward to a Celtic-inspiration for SRS! &nbsp...

So.... I hear your quiet murmurings in the vasty hallways of the internet asking "What's going on?" and "Where's Dan?"  and "Why hasn't there been a SearchResearch Challenge this week?"  Basically, I'm kinda busy.  Lots of trav...

 Visually, the world is full of unknowns...And this week we took on the Challenge of figuring out how to identify logos.  Recently, SRS Regular Reader Jacob sent me this wonderful holiday card he received that was made up entirely of log...

Our visual world is full of logos and brandmarks... Just how many do you know?  Probably thousands.  Recently, SRS Regular Reader Jacob sent me this wonderful holiday card he received that was made up entirely of logos.  Design...

What're these things called? Background:  I've seen paintings like this ever since I took Art History as an undergraduate.  You know what they are--paintings of things that are NOT the things they depict.  As you can see in the...

LOTS to talk about this week... Before we get to the SearchResearch Challenge, I want to tell you two things quickly: First... My article on “The Skills of Online Search and Research: Why research skills matter more than ever in the age ...

 I bet you're wondering what happened.  Me too.  This took a LOT longer than expected... When I started, I wasn't sure if this would be easy or difficult...It's not obvious where you'd begin searching for this information.&nbsp...

So.... ... where DOES the trash go??? I was writing up my solution about the trash / recycling question.  I'd read lots of documents, tons of tales, reads of city reports, and was just about to hit publish.But then I paused.  I...

Where does your recycling go... really??  A recent spate of stories about how lots of supposedly recycled stuff actually ends up in the trash (NPR story;  NERC story;  Wired story) made me start wondering about where my trash and re...