TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Last night I finished the 8-part series available on the PBS app, and I'm happy to recommend it with some minor reservations.  The story...

The Minnesota Star Tribune explains: Take Minnesota’s state bird, the loon, combine it with the “Star Wars” Rebel Alliance symbol, and the ...

I just sent this email message to several friends and family members: This is Sunday night, which is Monday morning in east Asia, so I tuned...

"Plants usually attract pollinators using bright colors and scents, but some of the earliest plants use heat instead. A collaboration b...

I recently realized I've never blogged my favorite Dylan song.

Source:  xkcd

Posted for the gorgeous photo, which was featured in a New York Times article about woodpeckers.  We have a small woods behind our home; I ...

Interesting how often that theme has arisen in world folklore.  Text excerpted from The Overstory .

The embed shows allegations I've seen in several posts on Facebook.  I don't trust Facebook material to be accurate.  Have any reade...

I don't really have time to blog today, but I wanted to share this video I found last night at Nag on the Lake (which I invite you to ...

It's very seldom that I give up on a book after I've read a couple hundred pages.  I used to be a "completionist" slogging...

The European Space Agency is compiling a 3D map of the Milky Way, showing the color and brightness of 1.8 billion stars .  In this image, w...

The conventional definition involves sentimental love, but the photo source also offers this comment: The word also had homosexual conn...

Credit to Antti Laitinen for "Broken Landscape, 2021" which I found posted at the oddlyterrifying subreddit.  The discussion thre...