TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Several days ago I posted a reading list from 1968 for a college course on Twentieth Century [American] Southern Writers.  The course requi...

In the era before the invention of adhesive postage stamps, postal services in Scandinavia used feathers affixed to the envelope to indicate...

... sometimes the woods come to visit. Several days ago we were startled by what sounded like rolling thunder on a storm-free evening.  A qu...

Not AI.  But also not what a human eye would see.   To create his spectacular image – now viewed millions of times online – Brendan Larsen s...

Explained in a post at the often-interesting What Is It? subreddit .

I've encountered a number of articles about how college students in the United States are unwilling (or unable) to read full books.  One...

The unofficial "motto" of TYWKIWDBI is "you learn something every day."  The phrase is not incorporated into the templat...

This image won second place in the Nikon Small World photomicrography contest.  Image credit John Oliver Dum/Nikon Small World, via a galler...

28 miles (so far).  The animation is silent - refreshingly free of irrelevant music and unnecessary voiceover.

A tip of the hat to Jason Kottke , who found and posted excerpts of a strategy to markedly improve one's chances of winning the Monopoly...

I first saw Silver Linings Playbook when it was released back in 2013, but I seem not to have blogged it at the time.  I'm doing so now...

Wikipedia has an extensive list, from which I've extracted some of the names I recognize: Alan Alda born 1936 An actor most famous...

October is Polio Awareness Month (because it used to be a seasonal illness peaking in late summer and early autumn), so this is a good time ...

So named because of its seasonality, poliomyelitis was the cause of worldwide epidemics in the 1950s .  This new book presents a detailed lo...