TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Reposted from 2013 to add updated incredible numbers (see embed above) for this morning's weather. In 2013 I added this video of Lady Ga...

Cultures around the world are awash with "great flood" myths .  Wikipedia has a list of flood myths that includes too many for me...

Another addition to my list of recommended books , this one explaining in detail the hypothesis that an immense and abrupt irruption of wate...

I suppose everyone is startled when they first encounter these passges in the  Epic of Gilgamesh : "What I had loaded thereon, the whol...

Last weekend at a local auction the auctioneer started to enumerate the contents of a lot, then stopped and said it was a real " dog...

We have wooden spoons, but this "spootle" combines spoonness with "spatula" features by incorporating a squared, tapere...

Haven't heard about Trump's war on Cuba?  Neither had I.  Apparently Cuba is dependent on oil for its electrical power generation.  ...

As long as I'm cleaning out old tumblr links, I'll post this one from the long-defunct Palahniuk & Chocolate .

The photo show him removing a burned cross from his front lawn in 1960 (via the now-defunct but often interesting historically sound tumblr...

The embed above is a page from a book I recently finished reading.  The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood , by Irving Finkel ...

Here are several comments from the Minerals subreddit thread: Around the baltic sea, but also north sea, phosphor remains from bombs of the...

I'm reposting this cartoon from 2012 and will take this occasion to make note of the recent death of Scott Adams.  I think I blogged m...

"From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore , equivalent to where- (“=what”) +‎ for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore...

Reposted from 2022.

Reposted from 2012.