TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

13 December 2025

Marked playing cards

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If you look carefully, it's pretty obvious what the card on the left is.   Some relevant comments and a couple additional photos in the ...
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Is the semicolon an endangered symbol?

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According to the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves [an excellent book, by the way, which I recommend to all who love the English language], the ...
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10 December 2025

Train Dreams

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I watched this movie last night and thought it was excellent.  It depicts the life of one man living in the Pacific Northwest from young adu...
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09 December 2025

Re-evaluating the Roman road system

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Comparisons to the durability of modern roads at Reddit . Reposted from 2016 to add this interesting video on how the Romans constructed...
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Planning a collective holiday greeting card

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I first tried this in December of 2009 as a Christmas card , then revived the concept in 2017 and again in 2018 as a New Year's endeav...
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05 December 2025

How to escape from a frog

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Apparently the key is to tickle open the cloacal sphincter. After getting swallowed by a frog, [a water scavenger beetle] can scuttle down t...
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02 December 2025

Carved conch shell

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

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" Brumation is a term used to refer to dormancy of reptiles, which is metabolically somewhat different from mammalian hibernation. ...
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Prices falling 500-700%

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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 ...
01 December 2025

Superb Paleolithic art

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

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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...
30 November 2025

Minnesota vs. Wisconsin 2025 - battle for the Paul Bunyan's Axe trophy

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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...
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26 November 2025

Thinking of refugees on Thanksgiving

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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...
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A concise summary of the Oxfordian narrative

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

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