TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."
31 March 2023
"Nyctinastic" plants explained
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I think I've seen this in real life, but never appreciated it. Pictured above is a three-leaf clover with holes generated by insects. ...
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It's o.k. to be not-for-profit
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There is a longstanding and ongoing effort by various members of congress to take the U.S. postal service private because it is "losing...
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Kindergarten play cancelled because...
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"In April 2014, the Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood, New York, sent a letter to the parents of its kindergartners, confirming r...
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Movie props
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Via Kottke .
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Prescient
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"... members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying ...
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28 March 2023
The Gloucester Tree is a fire-lookout tree
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The Gloucester Tree is a giant karri tree in the Gloucester National Park of Western Australia. At 58 metres in height, it is the world'...
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Agatha Christie's writing being "cleaned up" for modern readers
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Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity. Poi...
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Remixing explained
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I haven't watched this through (it's a hour long), but from the samples I've seen, it looks interesting and well done. Via Kott...
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It's so sad that nothing can be done about this
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NASHVILLE, TN—In the hours following a violent rampage in Tennessee in which a lone attacker killed at least six individuals and injured sev...
25 March 2023
A bee roosting for the night
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... by clamping its mandibles onto the plant . Epeolus sp. A brood parasite bee that roosts overnight that clamps itself to plants with its...
Semordnilaps
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New word for me. I encountered it for the first time in last Saturday's New York Times crossword puzzle . 21D. This is a debut entry, a...
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Name that animal - the end
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The critter from round 14 ( image above) had the coloration of a wasp and the clasping forearms of a mantis - but it wasn't either on...
Olympic moment, 1992
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A sports video for those who don't particularly like sports, reposted from 2017 because the original video had undergone linkrot. Th...
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Gruesome injury
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This pelvic xray shows a left femur fractured at the neck, but the more horrific injury is on the right, where the entire femur has been dis...
An "Assassin's Teapot"
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Detailed explanation in the video. Apart from the supposed "assassination" use, this device (or similar ones) could be used to po...
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