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And I mean browsing. Just paging through, skipping the methods section, joyreading. Pigeons can be art critics! Researchers can figure out your identity by examining which phone apps you use, and when! The historic emergence of writing correlates with inequality!
Sep 5, 2023
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This piece I found perfectly encapsulates what my profile is all about. I love researching random things :)
3d ago
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This crevice of the internet feels like eavesdropping on a coffee shop dialogue between wizardly scholars who specialize in each of your ultra-specific microhobbies and interests. Create an account, search a topic you’re interested in, find the most satisfyingly specific articles you’ve ever seen—articles you never knew you wanted or needed to read—it’s marvelous and terrific. Academia also sends you email recs about articles it feels you’d take interest in based on previous searches, nine out of ten times of which are spot on. I just got finished reading a paper around the amalgamation of the Japanese Avant Garde and a Frank Lloyd Wright hotel. Heavenly
6d ago
Sometimes I get frustrated that there isn’t a good, comprehensive, or aesthetically pleasing source for something. For example, I wanted to find something for queer history in Brazil and struggled to find what I was looking for (at least in English.) So I started using my old college login and started writing this zine for it. Highly satisfying, incredibly time consuming, very nerdy.
3d ago
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Did you know there’s one NYC dog named Lunch, none named Dinner, and 27 named Snack? There are seven dogs named Breakfast, but only one is a hot pink bitch.
Sep 5, 2023
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Some documentaries are so good that they make you want to use all 246 synonyms for “wow” (according to this extensive Wiktionary list). This is one of them. In an hour and thirty-seven minutes (perfect runtime), a 1997 documentary about a bizarre Texas endurance feat will make you laugh, cry, take a shot, and have many epiphanies!
Sep 5, 2023
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Kill every “poster” impulse and put info online for no recognition, no reward, no glory. Hunt for kooky stories in news archives and put them on Wikipedia! Replace dead sources with archived links, expand two-sentence stubs about obscure rivers in the middle of nowhere, fix typos!
Sep 5, 2023