TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I've posted multiple versions of Creep in the past, so this might be a duplicate, but if so it's worth redoing because of the joy v...

"El Cumbanchero" is a classic (1943) piece of Latin music whose title roughly translates as "party animal."  Lots of pre...

A 26-year-old woman with elbow pain after falling on her outstretched hand while ice skating .  The radiograph shows a dislocated radial hea...

Potential value discussed in the currency subreddit thread.  I've never paid much attention to the serial numbers of bills that pass th...

If you look carefully, it's pretty obvious what the card on the left is.   Some relevant comments and a couple additional photos in the ...

According to the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves [an excellent book, by the way, which I recommend to all who love the English language], the ...

I watched this movie last night and thought it was excellent.  It depicts the life of one man living in the Pacific Northwest from young adu...

Comparisons to the durability of modern roads at Reddit . Reposted from 2016 to add this interesting video on how the Romans constructed...

I first tried this in December of 2009 as a Christmas card , then revived the concept in 2017 and again in 2018 as a New Year's endeav...

Apparently the key is to tickle open the cloacal sphincter. After getting swallowed by a frog, [a water scavenger beetle] can scuttle down t...

Image cropped for size; from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art : This shell from the 11th century, which was probab...

" Brumation is a term used to refer to dormancy of reptiles, which is metabolically somewhat different from mammalian hibernation. ...

For the past year I have sincerely tried every possible way to avoid blogging anything about Donald Trump, in part because I find the topic ...

I previously blogged about the deteriorating conditions of the famous cave paintings at Lascaux. On a more upbeat note, there is another e...

This 76-year-old man has a history of coronary artery disease, as evidenced by the old midline thoracotomy scar from a coronary bypass.  I...