Travel: Choose a smaller airport to make your flight more pleasant

Financial blog Wise Bread has come up with a practical way to make your flight experience a little less crazymaking – just fly out of a smaller airport: This isn’t an option for everyone, but when it is, take it. It’s worth the extra $20, $20, or $50 to fly from an airport with shorter …

Quicker references with Google Scholar

This post is an ode to Google Scholar (GS). GS has a major advantage against expensive institution only academic search engines in that is free, which makes services indispensable to independent scholars wishing to get some access to research literature when they don’t have an institutional subscription. However, even though I personally have institutional access …