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

Alright so yes, I’ve also fallen for Bluey. This show is a very nice feel good show. I want to talk about Bandit though.

Everyone has agreed that Bandit is the best dad ever, and honestly, he is a really good dad. One thing I have noticed about the show though, is how they don’t make the parents the same energy every episode. In some episodes, like Daddy Robot, Bandit is all ready to play with the kids. Ready to jump all over the place with them. Other episodes, he plays with the kids, but is more interested in doing something else or isn’t thrilled about the game (such as in Horsey Ride). Then there is Take Away, he’s tired. He just wants his dinner, but the kids still need him. He still takes care of the kids, but he isn’t all energetic and into it as he usually is until the end of the episode. Bandit is still an amazing dad, he’s just tired. And I like that this show shows that.

bluey is already an emotional show but I'm always so happy about how unapologetically australian it is?? like the way they draw the houses and the streets and all the nature, and having all the aussie slang in it and all the lil things that are like yeah!!! that's what growing up here is like!!!

like idk. when I was growing up obviously we still had australian made kids shows but a lot of the popular ones were still american or british and it's just nice that there's an australian show that's so well made that's become popular outside of australia

I'm watching Bluey for the first time and I'm just. Fucking speechless. Like I knew the show was good but I genuinely didn't expect it to be as amazing as it is. Like nothing's perfect but Bluey is as close as it gets. I have so many thoughts about this show but the main one I have right now is...

Bandit and Chilli are shown to consistently and actively play with their kids. WHAT OTHER MEDIA HAS EVER SHOWN THIS?? PLEASE THEY ARE SUCH GOOD PARENTS. THIS SHOW IS ONE GIANT GUIDE ON HOW TO BE A GOOD PARENT. T-T

WE DID IT!

WARRIOR NUN IS BACK!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

I REPEAT WARRIOR NUN IS BACK!

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THEY’RE GOING TO BE WHEN THEY REUNITE?!

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

it bears repeating in a more gentle manner but in the nicest way possible, there is a really issue with discrepancy when you talk about issues happening in different countries. when it’s anti-trans/gay laws in north america and western europe, it becomes “genocide”. when other countries, like mine, have jail and death penalties for being gay explicitly, it becomes a matter of “oh it’s illegal there” and sometimes, insidiously, “that’s just how they are, they’re less progressive.” and i need you all to know this is white supremacy talking and i, a gay person living in a country under the threat of death penalty, am as much of a victim as you are.

I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

Repeat After Me

People Who Are Asexuals: Have little to no sexual attraction

People Who Are Aromatic: Have little to no romantic attraction

People Who Are Aro/Ace: Are interested in none of your shit Have little to no attraction either way

Please stop putting aromatics in the asexual category and vice versa

(I know I am a fanfiction quotes account but this needed to be said)

Pride month reblog pt.2

"you should have sympathy for the billionaires because they're people too"

i love when ur inside chilling or cleaning and it suddenly starts raining hard as hell YESSSSS IM A LITTLE MOUSE IN A TREE HOLLOW HOUSE

"A submarine has gone missing" : Oh jeeze, I hope they find those people.

"A submarine visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Well, that's a little ghoulish but I can't blame folks for a morbid curiosity, especially at a monument to white man's hubris.

"An experimental cobbled together submarine visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Well at this point y'all were just taking your lives into your own hands and also how is 'slapped together submarine' a legal thing that's real.

"An experimental cobbled together submarine full of the absurdly wealthy visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Okay now this just feels a little too on point someone has to be joking with me.