<story><title>Research as leisure activity</title><url>https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>That is a beautiful article, but if you are time constrained skip 1&amp;#x2F;4 down to the definition of research as leisure activity.&lt;p&gt;I felt like the author was describing me in the paragraph: “”” I’d also say that pretty much every writer, essayist, “cultural critic,” etc—especially someone who’s writing more as a vocation than a profession—has research as their leisure activity. What they do for pleasure (reading books, seeing films, listening to music) shades naturally and inevitably into what they want to write about, and the things they consume for leisure end up incorporated into some written work.”””</text></comment>
<story><title>Research as leisure activity</title><url>https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nico</author><text>Are there publications for “research as a leisure activity”?&lt;p&gt;Somewhere where I can read what “amateurs” are researching in their free time?&lt;p&gt;There’s a few channels I follow on YouTube, but they all seem to be living off of the content they produce&lt;p&gt;I’m curious about communities of people with scientific inclinations, doing experiments of interesting things “at home”</text></comment>