Best Thing I’ve Heard All Day.

Well this is just entirely in character for both of them.

we do not need midnight sun. we need a twilight book from robert pattinson's pov

Everyone should be entitled to knowledge, and silencing and repressing lesser known resources is dangerous. Saving this for further exploration.

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

Me when Fairytale by Alexander Rybak comes on in the car.

This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.

why do anime girls from the 80s and 90s look so much better than anime girls today

POTO US Tour - Final Lair, as requested. 

Thank to Luina Luna who helped me out with these gifs while I had problems opening Act II file on my computer. I really like one with Christine throwing notes all around like a little kid. 

They are old guys

Good stuff.

THE GREATEST SAGA OF OUR TIME

in the POTO fandom we don’t say “come at me bro” we say “that’s right monsieur, keep walking this way” and I think that’s beautiful