diff --git a/direct/README.md b/direct/README.md
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--- a/direct/README.md
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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-**di**viding **rect*angles, and the algorithms that stem from it.
+**di**viding **rect**angles, and the algorithms that stem from it.
 for a description and history of these methods, please refer to
 ["The DIRECT algorithm: 25 years Later."](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-020-00952-6)
 
 i don't plan on implementing the original DIRECT algorithm itself,
 but i've heard through the grapevine that
-[scipy](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html)
+[scipy](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html#global-optimization)
 is getting its own DIRECT implementation soon.
 
 `birect.py` is a modification of DIRECT that divides hyper-rectangles
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ SOO is typically not as efficient as the other algorithms,
 but it is simpler to implement, specially when K is fixed to a constant.
 curiously, SOO is not covered in the aforementioned article, so please refer to
 ["Optimistic Optimization of a Deterministic Function
-without the Knowledge of its Smoothness"](https://team.inria.fr/sequel/software/soo/)
+without the Knowledge of its Smoothness."](https://team.inria.fr/sequel/software/soo/)