TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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.  ...

There is a longstanding and ongoing effort by various members of congress to take the U.S. postal service private because it is "losing...

 "In April 2014, the Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood, New York, sent a letter to the parents of its kindergartners, confirming r...

Via Kottke .

"... members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying ...

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'...

Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity. Poi...

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...

NASHVILLE, TN—In the hours following a violent rampage in Tennessee in which a lone attacker killed at least six individuals and injured sev...

... by clamping its mandibles onto the plant . Epeolus sp. A brood parasite bee that roosts overnight that clamps itself to plants with its...

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...

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...

  A sports video for those who don't particularly like sports, reposted from 2017 because the original video had undergone linkrot.   Th...

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...

Detailed explanation in the video.  Apart from the supposed "assassination" use, this device (or similar ones) could be used to po...