TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

MTV Awards performance, remastered in HD.  "Billie Jean" at about the 3:30 mark, and the "Dangerous" segment begins at a...

I prefer to end my blogging day by leaving interesting photos at the top of the page, so here is a sunbeam penetrating a natural arch in Chi...

(Other than as a sign of otitis media in a child.)  The item at the top comes from the collections of the British Museum (via A London S...

Labor Day marks the effective end of Midwesterners going to local farms to bring home newly harvested sweet corn.  We have several local far...

I spotted an unusual (for me) food product in a Bloomberg article: olive oil in a squeeze bottle.  All my life I've poured olive oil ou...

I always enjoy finding a word that describes something I knew existed but for which I didn't know the term.  Today that word is cladopto...

One of the "Photos of the week" from a gallery at The Atlantic , where there are several other pix of athletes in the paralympics....

People having fun in the Netherlands.  Enjoyable to watch, but I had no idea what title to use on this post.  Suggestions welcome.

Via Neatorama .

I found and bookmarked this years ago, but just ran across it while searching for something else and decided to put it up.  The discussion t...

 Gray wolf on the left.  Spotted hyena on the right.  The top comment at the NatureIsFuckingLit subreddit is worth quoting in toto: On the ...

Image cropped from the original posted in the whatsthisrock subreddit.  I suppose in all fairness one could refer to such a thing as an obj...

Everyone who studies medicine learns that a wide-based gait (or broad-based gait) is a characteristic feature of cerebellar disease.  Other ...

This may be an old puzzle, but it's the first time I've seen it.  At the start there is a pawn in the LR corner, which needs to be m...

Herewith some excerpts from Edwin Way Teale's classic 1974 book.  I've just finished what I think is my third reading of the book, a...