TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Yesterday evening I was looking for some distraction from doomscrolling the internet.  While wandering around I found the above movie on Ama...

 Very much looking forward to this.  Premieres October 14, 2026 on PBS (NOVA) in the USA.

I've been enjoying the cryptic puzzles in Harper's for decades.  After you figure out the cleverly-constructed clues, entering the a...

Bloomington nurse and mom Roze Mulen poses with her trinket trade box, where people can swap figurines and toys.  (Roze Mulen/Provided) The ...

I found the "recent work" that Jonathan Ferro is referring to in his introduction to Jeffrey Currie.  Couldn't find a text ver...

My father's career was as a traveling salesman, driving five states selling electrical equipment to local utilities.  So when our family...

Do you ever get the sense that many of the so-called mainstream pop stars whose images you unwittingly encounter dozens of times a day aren’...

I watched this DVD from our library last night and thoroughly enjoyed it (rated it 3.5 on my 0-4 scale, which means "good enough to rec...

Percentage of Americans who were paid to babysit as teenagers: 56 Who say they would trust a teenager to babysit today: 11 Numbers from the ...

A radar tower stands alone in northeast Oklahoma City , surrounded by a green field. It is one hundred feet tall and topped with a smooth, w...

I've had this pair of stamps in my collection for decades, labeled "ventilator" cancels , which I assumed without research was...

As soon as humans became aware that infectious diseases could be transmitted by fomites (inanimate objects), attention was directed to de...

When you see the words Bab al Mandab Strait in mainstream news sources, pay close attention.  This is the southern exit from the Red Sea an...