TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I encountered the above image on the interestingasfuck subreddit, apparently a sign at a fish-cleaning station at a resort or motel.   I th...

As reported in The New York Times : It has ignited an uproar in the school system, the Salmon River Central School District, a small distric...

Reposted to remind readers there is still time to offer greetings and pix to fellow readers.  I'll plan to post the submissions sometime...

Well done and quite interesting.  Amazing that in the Sami region of northern Finland there are auroras 150 nights per year.

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...

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. ...