TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

04 July 2026

Fiber-optic materials in Ukranian birds' nests

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Yana Hrynko, senior researcher of The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, shows bird’s nests made partially w...

An interesting NOVA program on "desert kites"

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This one is many months old, because I save them to a DVR and watch whenever.  I believe what I've embedded above is full-length rather ...
02 July 2026

Ethnicity map of the United States

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To celebrate the nation's 250th birthday, the New York Times has created an impressive interactive map depicting the self-reported ethni...
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30 June 2026

Chipmunks

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I first noticed the rodent activity last week (image above) at the place where the driveway meets the garage, so I replaced the gravel in th...
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11 stars on this eagle

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" President Donald Trump has posted what appears to be a doctored image of a large, golden eagle attached to the White House's Trum...
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29 June 2026

"The Life of Chuck"

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Using the Siskel/Ebert grading system, this movie gets two "thumbs up" from me.  I've embedded the official trailer above, but...
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28 June 2026

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Found the above on Facebook but lost the source.  Below is a thematically related screencap from the movie Interstellar in which Michael Ca...
26 June 2026

A link for lovers of movies: The Criterion Closet

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For much of my adult life I have been a fan of the Criterion Collection .  About fifteen years ago I did subscribe to the Criterion Channel ...
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Goat tower

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If I had goats, I'd want to have a goat tower.  You can read about the (unexciting) history of such towers at Wikipedia .
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24 June 2026

A reflecting pool cocktail

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There are a seemingly endless number of memes on the reflecting pool disaster.  Readers are welcome to provide links to their favorites in t...
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22 June 2026

Interesting library chair

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Via Architecture Hub .
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Two videos about techniques for filming movies

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Via Kottke .

New technology for warfare: gyrocopters and paragliders

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"They appear after midnight, slowly crossing Myanmar’s skies. The motorised paragliders are improvised aircraft, suspending small metal...
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21 June 2026

A cure for anthropocentrism

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If you have friends who believe that human beings are the center of everything and humans are the reason for the existence of the universe, ...
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Italian word for the day: coglione

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Here is the definition, from the Wikipedia entry on Italian profanity : Lots of interesting material at that link.
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