Research for Fun

humanities + stem

[researchasahobby]

Hello! I have made a challenge for myself as someone who does research for fun and wanted to share it with people.

This challenge is pretty simple:

Randomly generate a number bwteen 1 and 999, include a decimal place to the thousandths, go to your local library, and read that book.

If they dont have the number then go to the next one up, so if they dont have 557.87 then go to 557.88.

What I'm doing that's completely optional is writing a 2-3 page paper on the book, what I learned, and what I found interesting. I'm also going to include the book title, author, publisher, and year of publication!

Not forcing anyone to join, I just know some people are using this year to pick up new hobbies so I thought I'd suggest one as someone who does research and writes papers as a hobby. I love learning new things so stuff like this is very fun for me.

Let me kmow if you decide to join me on this learning journey! :)

[vi-pete-fi]

I love going on Wikipedia to see how we know so much and so little at the same time. like "oh yeah here's the page for the main symbol/icon used for a (now) niche Abrahamic religion (one of the oldest monotheistic religions dating back to like 7th century BCE, it was a major religion at it's peak) we don't really know what it means or why they used it... but uh... here's a cool pic of it..." like woah this information was preserved and interpreted so well over the centuries by scholars that's amazi- what do you mean you don't know what it means???

[discoursets]