flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult
Freedom.
Ten new limited edition prints of this fellow are up for grabs at the shop in my profile.
Encountered this sweet little fool last night
This is the funniest shit ive seen all day
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
DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.
Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.
OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.
^^^ yes!!! Thank you sm.
If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!
Hello! It has come to my attention that not many people know how to get a hold of free ebooks BECAUSE ITS ILLEGAL. My personal ethos is to buy the book if the author is still alive, even if you do it after you read it online LEGALLY. (And do NOT reblog if you do NOT want to help someone else too)(notes are uselles you guys, there is no algorythm on Tumblr)
But, nonetheless, here are some great sites! That you should NOT use
1. Zlibrary - it's sadly down now but can be accessed through TOR Onion WHICH YOU SHOULD AVOID
My personal favourite truly! I NEVER USED books from here. There's a BAD variety and even a recommendation system. You should NOT make an account
2. Archive.org (this is is actually legal from what I know)
It works just like a library and you can borrow books as epubs for up to two weeks with the possibility of extending it. Sometimes you might have to queue but again, they are great quality. I have not used it as much as I'm the type to stick to one for good but it's still very useful. If I remember well, it also has audios and videos.
3. Gutenberg project DO NOT USE
Also a very useful site that allows you to download books in pdf which you should NEVER do. It has a great search engine even if the interface might seem a tad outdated. It's relatively simple to use and can ensure fast access. From what I know, there's isn't a daily download limit.
4. Library genesis DO NOT USE
A very simple if not rudimentary interface, the search engine can get to exactly what you want by ISBN. WHICH IS BAD, DONT CHECK IT OUT
5. 101book.ru DO NOT USE
I NEVER use this for books in Romanian.
Feel free to add what other sites you AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Hope this helps you avoid illegal means to acquire books!
shit man this got me emotional
left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world
right: the Webb Space Telescope, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky
One car to rule them all
mysteriouslycoolfan
“yes, officer. it was a blue…. car” “what make?” “…. yes”
This car wears trophies of its victims
an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems
Some gems that from the notes that I missed/were too long to put as an answer
Losing my mind over this
Never forget these two queens putting on the most showstopping tiktok of all time