TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

The Madison (Wisconsin) public library system is outstanding.  I have been a user (and supporter) since arriving in town over 25 years ago. ...

A sika deer with the severed head of a rival male that died in their battle skewered on its antler.  Photograph: Kohei Nagira/Wildlife Photo...

Stanley Kubrick: Couple Flirting on a Fire Escape, Park Benches - Love is Everywhere series, 1946 Until I encountered this photo on Miss Fol...

"For most of his 10 years as a neonatologist, Dr. Timmy Ho encountered one or two parents per week who didn’t want their newborns to re...

I have no doubt I've seen this on plants and assumed it was deposition to dew from the atmosphere. Guttation is the exudation of drops ...

Found at Wirecutter  (with discussion); saved because I keep forgetting and need to look this up.

I recently read an interesting review of The Monkey and the Monk (Univ Chicago Press, 2006) and found a copy in our library system.  The bo...

A painting by Charles Soubre (1877).  Judging by the items on the bedside table, I thought maybe this is where she returned the knife to the...

The image will enlarge with a click, but the text is still small, so I'll enter the text of the chorus here: "If yer wants to see m...

This video absolutely blew me away.  I had known from very casual reading that Mexico City originally developed in an area of wetlands, but ...

Hats off to the Minnesota Star Tribune for posting this pair of images side-by-side.  I had seen the photo on the right and wanted to use i...

Excerpts from an interesting essay in The Atlantic : Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But ...

I have lots of concerns re AI, but I have to grudgingly admit that it can generate some absolutely awesome images and videos.  More re the c...

Perhaps we can illustrate the concept with an example.  The message above expresses a new domestic economic policy presented to the world vi...

When I started TYWKIWDBI in 2007, the first post indicated that the purpose was "to compile for the amusement of my friends an eclecti...