TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

The media will be flooded with pix and videos from the current "snowpocalypse" hammering New England now.  The article in the New ...

Found on Facebook and fact-checked as best I can.  Apparently this is true.  Interesting (not that I'll ever read the book, but interest...

I found this game today I think via Metafilter.  The game chooses a random world capital city and invites you to guess it within 6 tries.  A...

Bet someone they can't name the country with which France shares its longest border , and give them three or four guesses... "Ge...

The embed is from Facebook, which is often unreliable.  But I found confirmation in The Guardian .   The 21-year-old man who was shot and ki...

Lots of stories this week about Olympic skater Alysa Liu, including a feature article in The Atlantic on "The Alysa Liu Effect." ...

Yesterday while I was doing the across clues in a crossword puzzle, the error checker alerted me to a mistake.  I had entered "careen...

I saw that assertion in The Overstory , but couldn't find the connection with my usual dictionaries, so I turned to artificial intellige...

Anyone who lives "up north" understands why you don't eat yellow snow.  But I didn't realize that blue snow has a similar ...

Fishermen in the Upper Midwest are being advised that it's now time to remove their ice houses from the still-frozen lakes.  Those wh...

Found on Facebook, but it's not one of the innumerable parodies.  The content has been confirmed by all the major news services, who poi...

If you are momentarily startled by the title of this post, that may be because you are associating the word "mortar" with artiller...

  And these are movies from way back in 2014.  Don't know if I've posted this before, but if I have, so be it.  I enjoyed this again...

Most of the best moments of my academic life were spent behind a podium with a clicker in one hand, a laser pointer in the other, and a slid...