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

kate BUSH. not kate SHAVE. something to think about..............

"Neighbors Not Tourists"

Anti-AirBnB sticker spotted in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

reddit is dying twitter is dying tumblr is next as people move over here in response and the corporate side of the company starts drooling at the prospect of EVEN MORE MONEY so they make staff change the website to be shittier and more like the dying websites. whats next? fireside gathering at my house where we pass the posting stick around that indicates youre allowed to make a post with words that come out of your mouth

When you’re the handsomest of all the boyz…

do NOT get into fibre arts!!!! you try one and then all of a sudden you have 10 hobbies and wanna try 10 more

my take on the whole twilight tv show thing circulating right now is that i think it'll be interesting to see what they do with it since i find a lot of aspects of the movies (especially the last 3 films) to be incredibly lacking and i don't think they're particularly good adaptations. a tv show is a great way to give more screen time to the side characters that truly make the series interesting and worth continuing to engage with. overall i think it could be cool! we'll see what happens

THAT BEING SAID y'all better take to the seas and raise the skull and crossbones because we are NOT streaming this shit and giving smeyer any fucking money!!! tell your friends. tell your family. explain this to random strangers. we can't let people go around actively supporting and engaging with twilight content just because the franchise has become a funny haha meme. critical consumption my friends

tacking a disclaimer to this to say that i would rather they just not do this at all because the more i think about it the more i dread this being real. sure we MIGHT get some cool new stuff but at what cost?

i also think it would be so funny if the entire twilight fandom was like "absolutely not, no thank you"

🐌 mama ragu & the pasta babies (castellane, gnocchi, orzo, farfalle, & penne)

(patterns (x)(x) by crafty intentions!)

as someone who has moved to a smaller city (30K people in total) for grad school, i would like to say twilight is wrong. the smaller the population the more people know you. i went to a cafe twice and they already know my order. 1000% everyone in forks knows the cullens are vampires and are just too entertained by how bad they are at acting normal to break it to them

This cat is too fluffy for me to comprehend in slow motion

wow continuants wow

WOAHHHHHHHHHH

Me: “Do you guys want to see the fluffiest cat?” Coworkers, immediately and loudly: “YES SEND IT NOW.”

Cat cloud. Cloud cat.

Dril tweeting edited pics of Elon with an uncensored micropenis it's so joever for twitter

A couple of ❤️s

— yes & no // natalie wee (via wondersmithinc)

steve holding onto eddies wallet chain bc it's the closest they can get in hawkins to holding hands and steve thinks it's kinda funny bc when eddie gets a little too excited he just tugs him back by the chain like a dog pulling at his leash and eddie doesn't complain about the terrible comparison bc it makes him feel tethered

Terry Fox Day, in BC at least, is treated as a special holiday where once a year all the schools learn about Terry Fox and cancer research and cut out a class to run and walk a few K in costumes and face paint to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He was my brother’s hero growing up. Kid ran 42 kilometers a day, every single day, followed by the van he slept in, on a trip across Canada from one side to the other, and only stopped when his cancer came back and moved to his lungs. Before his leg was amputated, he played basketball. I was tasked with painting a commemorative mural of him in highschool. He was a really cool kid and it always wilds me out that he isn’t spoken much of outside canada

Terry Fox Day, in BC at least, is treated as a special holiday where once a year all the schools learn about Terry Fox and cancer research and cut out a class to run and walk a few K in costumes and face paint to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He was my brother’s hero growing up. Kid ran 42 kilometers a day, every single day, followed by the van he slept in, on a trip across Canada from one side to the other, and only stopped when his cancer came back and moved to his lungs. Before his leg was amputated, he played basketball. I was tasked with painting a commemorative mural of him in highschool. He was a really cool kid and it always wilds me out that he isn’t spoken much of outside canada

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!

What’s in the steppes of Russia, or the northern forests of Scandinavia? What’s in the Sahara desert?

id like us to sit here and identify some key differences between the sahara desert and ohio for a moment

as a former Ohio resident I think that the key difference is that the sahara probably has more jobs unrelated to meth

untapped meth market in the depths of the sahara desert

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