TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Apparently the key is to tickle open the cloacal sphincter. After getting swallowed by a frog, [a water scavenger beetle] can scuttle down t...

Image cropped for size; from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art : This shell from the 11th century, which was probab...

" Brumation is a term used to refer to dormancy of reptiles, which is metabolically somewhat different from mammalian hibernation. ...

For the past year I have sincerely tried every possible way to avoid blogging anything about Donald Trump, in part because I find the topic ...

I previously blogged about the deteriorating conditions of the famous cave paintings at Lascaux. On a more upbeat note, there is another e...

This 76-year-old man has a history of coronary artery disease, as evidenced by the old midline thoracotomy scar from a coronary bypass.  I...

Posted as memorabilia for me and a few friends and family members.  This is not a "game for the ages" for anyone other than Minnes...

If you have nothing else to be thankful for on this day, be thankful that you are not a refugee - political refugee, war refugee, climate re...

I have excerpted the following from the Summer 2025 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter: "Where do you begin when, at a dinner p...

"...in their native Madagascar, the endangered animals are facing a growing threat: City-dwellers with cash to spare love to eat them ....

" Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway in New York City. It featured a cast...

I have encountered the word "mews" many hundreds of times while reading British literature, sussed out that it was an arrangement ...

  Reposted from 2014 because even though the content is contrived, it's very clever and deserves a second viewing.  Every word of the...

" A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website that previously said that vaccines do not cause autism walked back that statemen...

There has been a boatload of analysis, commentary, criticism, and speculation about the effects the new tariffs may or may not be having on ...