







Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
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Why do we collect things?
Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov

The Searchers (1956)
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Will someone please film my movie about immortal sea judge Peter Thiel
Based on a soon-to-be-true story

North Sea, Nature Untamed puts personal wonder back into nature documentaries
North Sea, Nature Untamed signals a shift in wildlife filmmaking.

Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.

Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
Cameron's World
🌍 A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings


Trove
Australia’s free online research portal. Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.
Published work: ocean journalist Melissa Hobson, the Ocean Writer
As an ocean journalist, I've written about all sorts of fascinating things going on beneath the waves. Read some of my published work here.


Hister | Your Own Search Engine
atproto-aware concept search engine

Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus
It was a huge honor to present the opening keynote address at #SIGIR2026 and to talk about the need for IR to resist uncritical adoption of…
We’re — slowly, yes, but surely — building an open, decentralized search index with atproto

What’s the Difference Between Search and Recommendation? | TechPolicy.Press