Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

SHE👏DID👏THAT

#now here’s a scene #if you’re unfamiliar with ‘class s’ style homophobia it’s in that context and reading up on that could be interesting #long story short there’s an old trope in japanese culture where lesbian relationships are childish practice not-real romances #that are in some way training for future real relationships with men

Thank you for the context

I love how you can see the entirety of her facial expression change as she thinks “that could’ve been me.”

context!

yeah it might seem to some people that anime is being more progressive than other cultures when it shows young girls obviously dating but Japan actually widely considers that to just be a (frequently fetishized) cutesy childhood phase teenage girls go through in high school, then are expected to grow out of and date men. Japan is still homophobic as hell so this scene is pretty cool and a little bold.

A long meme, but something that should be said

Pencils also shed graphite something you don’t want floating in a cabin with electronics

That’s a long way to say NASA spent millions of dollars of tax payer money on bullshit because space doesn’t exist

I’m glad there’s people like this around here. Makes me feel grounded and sane.

so that aa men twitter pollfest am i right ladies

anyway when edgeworth learns to be comfortable expressing his affections he should be like, obscenely direct about it. it would be funny i think

DYSCALCULIA TOOL ALERT!

This is an acrylic magnifying glass with a green strip in it that helps you read long strings of numbers! It's been known for a while that putting a colored filter over pages can help people with dyscalculia read numbers without them flipping places, but this is the first time I've seen something so simple and accessible. I put it on some test numbers and my eyes didn't feel like they kept wanting to jump around all over the number. I can keep this on my desk and use it on paper, or hold it up to my monitor to read long numbers at work! It may help people in other ways as well, this is just what I bought it for and I already love it!

I found it at a Daiso location, but there are probably others online.

Spread the word!

EDIT: It's also like $2, so pretty much anyone who needs it can afford it!

wait what? oh dog this is like one of those colour blindness tests where you find out you can’t see reds. my brain can’t parse the kit lot without reading it out loud and remembering how the numbers sound but the green numbers are different.

wait hold up.. how the fuck does this work??? I need it in my life like.. stat. But... HOW does it work? What the fuck is up with our brains that a green filter makes a difference? I'm so confused! Brains are so wierd!

idk what your all talking about tiktok rules

Okay, I did it!

I kinda wanted to do an RPG themed Inktober, so I decided to randomize and compile my own list into a fancy-pants graphic! I hope at least a few other people find the prompts helpful or inspiring! 

Enjoy! 

It’s the time of year where I reblog all my non denominational October art prompts.

all good lawyers can catch a brick thrown thru a window with their bare hand. doesn’t matter if they’re blind or not. all part of the job

People were saying Dakota Johnson shouldn't do a period piece bc she looks like she knows what an iPhone is but I feel like theoretically if I were an actor I could do period pieces. I feel like my face fits in a period piece for some reason.

Okay so now everyone answer. What decade/century do you think your face belongs. I'm gonna go for myself, late 1800s

mission status: sikh

The governing precepts of Sikhi insist that a Sikh person be helpful wherever possible.

...Normally one presumes this means being asked to help and accepting, or seeing a need and offering to help.  But it’s kinda awesome to be helpful just by existing, too...

This post always makes me laugh because this man is a member of parliament in Canada.

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

that whole [redacted] situation was genuinely really. upsetting. nobody actually got hurt so it feels melodramatic to call it traumatizing but uh I think that was the closest I’ve ever come to an actual panic attack.

Apparently I can’t sleep unless I vent about this.

Watch out Ahmad 🚘🚶🏽‍♂️