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Hi everyone! I have a new Notion pack to share with you all! They are minimalist floral banners for decorating your Notion pages :) I doodled the design myself because I wanted to try & create something from scratch to add to my Notion, & I'm quite pleased with how they turned out.

They come in a few neutral & muted colours, & I also included rectangular versions in the pack for those who'd prefer them over the arched layouts.

Hope you guys like the banners, & I'd love to see how you use them!!

Wilted Banners Pack.

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I want the blissful sweetness of doing nothing

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saturday spread

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August - September 2022 / Paris, France

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“weekend”

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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

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peaceful productive morning 🌷

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rainy afternoon studying

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so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

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rainy afternoon studying

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Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it. 

DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(

Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!

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A Decade of All Things Linguistic

When I started All Things Linguistic ten years ago, it felt a way of finally joining the linguistics blogosphere conversation that I’d been reading for the previous ten years or so. I didn’t expect that it would lead to me meeting and sometimes even collaborating with so many interesting people along the way, not to mention developing a whole career out of lingcomm. 

I’m now better known for many of these non-blog projects, especially Because Internet and Lingthusiasm, but for me, this blog is always where it began. So, here’s a few highlights from the past decade:

Linguistics-y series

I did a lot of these more in-depth linguistics-y series and posts in the early years of the blog, before I started writing for other places as well. To browse a longer list of them, see my favourites page.

I relistened to the entire BBC radio comedy series Cabin Pressure and found amusing linguistics content in every single episode

So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.

Linguist humour (currently at 44 pages!)

Language on the interwebz (35 pages!)

Lists of resources

A very long list of pop linguistics books and lingfic

Linguistics and language podcasts

A very long list of linguistics youtube channels

Linguistic approaches to language learning

How to teach yourself linguistics online for free

Protolinguist - ways to do linguistics in high school

Meta series

Linguistics jobs

Grad school, undergrad, and intro linguistics advice

Weird Internet Careers

LingComm - workshop, conference and grants

Writing series elsewhere

The Toast

Wired

Slate

Mental Floss

Full list of short-form writing elsewhere

Other projects elsewhere

Because Internet, a book I wrote about internet language

Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics which I cohost

Crash Course Linguistics, for which I was one of the writers

I’ve collaborated on many Language Files videos with Tom Scott

lingwiki, a series of edit-a-thons to improve linguistics-related content on Wikipedia

I’ve done many public speeches and media interviews. So many.

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I just completed my last exam for the semester, so my break has officially commenced 📖☁️✨ i have a little over two weeks before i start an internship, which i’ll talk through a little more since i’ve been getting lots of engineering career questions lately! In the meantime, i am super excited to just wind down and rest (i.e lots of reading, film watching, drawing, and planning) ✍🏼📝☕️ also, i finished reading aurora’s end last night (which was really good!!), and am starting night film by marisha pessl! ✨ What are your plans for the weekend? ☺️ (at Perth, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIq_t_vy8P/?utm_medium=tumblr

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im so excited about my reading this semester that i cant actually focus on reading it.

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How I got a 4.0 first year in college | academiix

Watch the video version on Youtube. 

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