TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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...

Posted as memorabilia for me and a few friends and family members.  This is not a "game for the ages" for anyone other than Minnes...

If you have nothing else to be thankful for on this day, be thankful that you are not a refugee - political refugee, war refugee, climate re...

I have excerpted the following from the Summer 2025 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter: "Where do you begin when, at a dinner p...

"...in their native Madagascar, the endangered animals are facing a growing threat: City-dwellers with cash to spare love to eat them ....