TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I'm going to leave cyberspace for at least a week - probably two - to see what's happening in real life.

I saw a group of these in a local auction and had to look up some information: Although rare today, the hair receiver was a common fixt...

YouTube link . Kitum Cave is a non-solutional cave developed in pyroclastic (volcanic) rocks (not, as some have presumed, a lava tube...

  1) watching a video that explains something I didn't know, and  2) listening to people speaking Scottish English . Re the latter, may ...

I love duets. This one is by two undisputed legends. Performed in New York City, 2003 on the occasion of Willie Nelson's 70th birthd...

"Meteorology professor Victor Gensini of Northern Illinois University and Harold Brooks of NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory tra...

A Speckled Racer ( Drymobius margaritiferus ) in south Texas.  Beautiful.  Best comment at the via: "Non venomous but it sure looks dan...

Via the always-interesting Nag on the Lake .

"It can be a ground cover, or shrubby, or a woody vine (called a liana), achieving nearly treelike proportions. Its leaves can be shiny...

Obsidian flakes found at the bottom of Lake Huron at a location that apparently was a land bridge across the lake 9,000 years ago.  More abo...

Details and commentary at Boing Boing . Reposted from 2020 to add this even more American headline: Story at ABC News .

The one shown above crosses the Macclesfield Canal in east Cheshire. A roving bridge , changeline bridge, turnover bridge, or snake bridge ...

Residents in Lublin and Vilnius can see each other in real time. The sci-fi-like portals were desi gned to connect and unify people in diffe...

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  It's always amazing to see the spectacular clusters of Monarchs at their overwintering grounds.  This page at Journey North has lots ...