Skip Google for Research

[s-n-arly]

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

[aceofblades222]

“How do you know if your aromantic if you’ve never been on a date” is right up their with “how do you know you’re asexual if you’ve never had sex” as the Dumbest Question Ever.

Shoutout to all the people who know they are aro and/or ace before being in a relationship! I’m not too young to know!

[theoriginaldinosaur]

I used to get asked “well how do you that you don’t like sex if you never had it?”

And I’d always answer: “have you ever wanted to fuck a llama? How do you if you’ve never tried it?”

Works every time

[foreverblindedbystars]

thinkin bout how when i came out to one of my friends as ace, one of her first responses was "yeah but you'd have sex for your partner, right?"

which at the time filled me with dread. because i dont want to. but i agreed because i didn't want to seem like, selfish? i guess?

and i just think its really fuckin weird to say that to an ace person. i hate the idea that sex is an assumed part of every relationship, and to not have sex is like, witholding something important from your partner.

for me, if a partner cannot handle a relationship without sex, we are fundamentally incompatible. and i dont think thats selfish of me.

[theoriginaldinosaur]

I was trying to explain this to my therapist. That it would be a compromise or a chore like feeling. I know relationships are a compromise but why do I have to be the one to do it?

[c3rvida3]

Walking around my neighborhood wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says "I STEAL EVERY FRIENDLY CAT I MEET WITH NO REMORSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK I BEEN HERE FOR YEARS KEEP THAT BEAST ENCLOSED LEST YE FACE MY LIGHTNING CAT GRASP" and smiling politely while my neighbors' indoor-outdoor cats gently trot down the sidewalk towards me as the neighbors themselves read my shirt with a growing sense of panic.

[c3rvida3]

Unfollow me for cat theft all you want. You'll never catch me and you'll never stop me. Those things are this season's must-have lipgloss in an understaffed Sephora, and baby? I'm a middle-class teenage girl who's not getting enough attention at home...

[c3rvida3]

People in the notes keep saying, "This is just another reason you should keep your cats inside," and I know they just mean the fact that someone in general could steal them, but I like to think they all mean that you gotta watch out for me specifically. Because you do. I'm everywhere. And I'm fast.

[c3rvida3]

It's bonkers how uncool all of you sound being like, "Go ahead and try it, dweeb!! My outdoor cat loves me and he would claw his way home to me!!" That's awesome, man. He's not gonna claw his way out of the grill of a freshly christened combination student texter/student driver's 2005 Dodge Neon, though. Keep your fucking animals inside. You look uneducated, you look weird, you look like you can't cum unless you violate the Migratory Bird Act but the game warden said this is your final warning and so letting Mittens unleash his detached bloodlust is the next best thing.

[theoriginaldinosaur]

This feels like a welcome to nightvalle episode.

[ukk0]

🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜

[miraculouslumination]

By the way, I’m working on a series of Pride (Red) Pandas! I already have 15 in total done, and will be updating this as it goes!

This series is meant to be radically inclusive, so here’s a disclaimer:

Do not use the images in or touch this post if you are an exclusionist of any kind or are a terf, radfem, gendercrit, etc. You are not wanted here, and these are not for you.

Pt 1: You’re here! | Pt 2: Here! | Pt 3: Here!

Pt 4: WIP | Pt 5: WIP | Pt 6: WIP

Listen imagine the gang from my s-class hunters that I raised playing the ‘hear me out’ came with a cake. And Sung Hyunjae places a picture of Yoojin in the cake.

Yoohyun shouts “that’s my Hyung!l

Bak Yermin “that’s my dad!” (I know technically guardian)

Peace growls in protest

And Song Taewon just nods in agreement.

[bradbradleyart]

Reading s class

[evilkaeya]

this panel makes me laugh so hard why was he so aggressive about it

[ultimatelyangel]

i love this style of christian art, it's so pretty and delightful. by @.paigepayne_creations on instagram!

[darnitjack]

I imagine this is what Maria Magdalene saw when she came looking for Jesus on Easter Sunday