Blue glass beads from the Late Bronze Age. Found in 1885 when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark. Analysis shows they were made in Mesopotamia c. 3,100 years ago. Evidence of long-distance trade connections. 📷: National Museum of Denmark.
On this day, 21 July 1972, women shoemakers in Fakenham, England, who had been occupying their factory against redundancy, launched a workers’ cooperative in a new plant. They had taken out a bank loan and received a donation from the Scot Bader Commonwealth and were attempting to keep their jobs after their former employer, Sexton & Everard, made them redundant. However, the new cooperative enterprise, Fakenham Enterprises Ltd, was subject to the same market forces as the previous one, and after struggling to make ends meet it eventually closed down five years later. But as in many other instances of self-management at that time, the women showed that their workplace could be run without bosses.
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the whole “british people struggling in this heat ur ancestors colonized the whole world” is just sooo ??? u do realize new delhi has been recording temperatures higher than 45 degree celcius for a second year in a row. this isnt about british people at all??? the world is burning hello???? lmfao
“Ahmed fears that things are only about to get worse. It was here, in 2021, that the world’s highest temperature for May was recorded, a staggering 54°C. This year, he said, feels even hotter. “Last week was insanely hot in Turbat. It did not feel like April,” he said.”
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
