Iris On The Cliffside

DNI: if you're no stranger to love, if you know the rules (so do I, A full commitment's what I'm thinking of), if you wouldn't get this from any other guy, (I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand), if you're never gonna give you up, if you're never gonna let you down, if you're never gonna run around and desert you, if you're never gonna make you cry, if you're never gonna say goodbye, if you're never gonna tel a lie and hurt you, if we've known each other for so long, if your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it, if inside, we both know what's been going on, if we know the game, and we're gonna play it, And if you ask me how I'm feeling dont tell me you're too blind to see, if you're Never gonna give you up, if you're Never gonna let you down, if you're Never gonna run around and desert you, if you're Never gonna make you cry if you're Never gonna say goodbye, if you're Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you if you're Never gonna give you up, if you're Never gonna let you down, if you're Never gonna run around and desert you, if you're Never gonna make you cry, if you're Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

[s-n-arly]

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

[lunavenger]

Reminder that libraries are literally foe this purpose. If you go to a public library with a research question you will make their day.

[pmamtraveller]

"Beneath The Golden Willow"

Ed Perkins.

[bobbole]

Ozy Worldyz, Memoirs of a tormented soul

[oldpaintings]

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist - After Guido Reni

[hr-rep]

Shane and the Ottawa Rookies

[chaaistheanswer]

Jousting at the festival to impress your lady love!!!

[gothredy]

[fellweather]

some of the seals in the seal hospital zeehondencentrum (from reference)

[nuancecomprehender]

my life isnt perfect but at least im not doing a mans laundry

[inritus]

The Cry, 1939. Photographed by John Gutmann.

[calebwittebane]

person typing into google search bar: obfuscate meaning

google ai overview: Understood! From now on, all meaning will be hidden from you, and you'll be forced to wade through the dreary vastness. Whether it's things you've always held dear, or new ideas you've yet to discover, nothing will make sense or appear to have any real value. This could be the beginning of a fascinating journey!

[sokolversus]

please don't smoke them 💔

[urgetocreate]

Elena Wuest (Kazakhstani/German b.1977), Lost in a Dream, 2026, Oil on canvas

[jeniferprince]

I've got a crush on you 💘

patreon // buy prints here

[byjove]

could you imagine if it happened this pride month

[markovchaingang]

ugh of course he has two mothers. they just had to make it woke. and one of them's made of cloth and the other wire too. sick of this forced diversity bullshit

[twiststreet]

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

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