TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

13 July 2025

Four xrays of hands on the fourth of July

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All of these xrays were taken at one level 1 trauma center.  The comment thread at the radiology subreddit is largely anecdotal and uninter...
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WWII prisoners-of-war in Minnesota - updated

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I watched this program on Minnesota public television while on a recent vacation back to my home area, and was delighted to find that is is ...
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12 July 2025

A "heat burst" is a rare weather phenomenon

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"A rare weather phenomena known as a heat burst occurred in a remote area of northwest Minnesota before sunrise Thursday.  At an autom...
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10 July 2025

The Milky Way - horizontal and vertical orientations

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Both images were entries at NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day ( November 5, 2024 and July 2, 2025 ).  Relevant discussion at each link.
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Not The Onion

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I have no words.  Just waiting to see who else climbs out of the clown car. The image is a nonclickable screencap.  Details at The Daily Mai...
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The cartoon equivalent of a "dad joke"

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"The muumuu /ˈmuːmuː/ or muʻumuʻu (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈmuʔuˈmuʔu]) is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin. It is related to the Mot...

An articulated T. rex foot

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We all know T. rex were big, but wow...  The foot is up for bids at Sotheby's "Geek Week" auction .  Lots of amazing items the...
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A fascinating video about Roman aqueducts

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Lots and lots of information I didn't know, most of it quite interesting.  Sadly, the speaker employs an execrable narrative style of pa...
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Nonuplets thriving

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"On 4 May 2021, nine children were born to Halima Cisse (Mali) in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. This is the first known ...
08 July 2025

There are a lot of good people in the world

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From a Facebook post by the Longville Campground Residents . Update on the Facebook post: "7/8/25 Update: We have found 3 possible fost...
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Frostbite of the vocal cords

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Symptoms of painful swallowing and hoarseness, resulting from the recreational use of inhaled nitrous oxide.  Details at The New England Jou...
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"Hypocorism" explained

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I encountered the word in a crossword puzzle clue.  As an almost-eighty-year-old English major, I still learn something every day... Hypocor...
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03 July 2025

A golden retriever lay in state at the Minnesota capital

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I trust every reader here is politically aware enough to know that a political assassination occurred last month in Minnesota when State Rep...
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01 July 2025

"Past Lives"

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The storyline is very simple.  Lifelong childhood friends in Seoul, Korea are forced apart by circumstances when the girl's family emigr...
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We should be celebrating the 2nd of July

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This Fourth of July, Americans will celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with picnics, parades and, of course, fir...
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