TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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22 October 2025

Word for the day: "Lunch-shaming"

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Excerpts from an editorial in the Minnesota Star Tribune : Imagine being a hungry child at school, only to have your hot lunch tray taken aw...
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Fascinating artifacts found in the nests of vultures

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A professor of prehistory at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain conducted a proper archaeological "dig" in the nest o...
21 October 2025

Found on the "What Is It ?" subreddit

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There are lots of fascinating subreddits including  What Is It? where people post images of items and ask for identification.  Today someon...
18 October 2025

Res ipsa loquitur

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17 October 2025

"No Kings" day tomorrow

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"Saturday’s national “No Kings” protests seem likely to be huge, and the Trump administration appears especially concerned and worried ...
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16 October 2025

Trump offers medications at 654% discount

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Ponder for a moment the widespread extent of abysmal ignorance that went into this public presentation.  Someone assembled those data, then ...
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"Best restroom in the United States"

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The winner of the annual award goes to a state park bathroom in Minnesota . Bear Head Lake State Park (Ely, Minnesota): Nestled within one ...
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11 October 2025

"Butterfly" hemivertebrae

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I've probably viewed 100,000+ chest xrays and CT scans in my life, but I've never before encountered this anomaly.  You learn someth...
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09 October 2025

Jeffrey Sachs' extensive and detailed discussion of the Israel - U.S. relationship. Please listen.

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In this interview, Tucker Carlson is interviewing Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who...
08 October 2025

Magic tricks are fun to watch

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Minnesotans volunteer to rescue loons

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Nobody has to do this.  Nobody is paid to do this.  People do this because they are basically nice. This notice was posted on Facebook by th...
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Jane Goodall was an expert on alpha males

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In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults...
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06 October 2025

Today (10/6) is Mad Hatter Day

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Explained here : Mad Hatter Day is 10/6. The date was chosen from the illustrations by John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in W...
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05 October 2025

Introducing Claire McCardell

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Some readers may be quite familiar with this lady, but a recent article in The Atlantic was my introduction to her. Claire McCardell hated ...
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If you received a check from the "National Cancer Research Center"...

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... do some research before deciding how to proceed. Our check (for $2.50) arrived yesterday inside a fundraising appeal, and I was immedi...
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