TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I'm sure I originally posted this many many years ago, but I can't find that post now, and it's worth calling it to readers'...

The photo above (titled " Lost to cancer two years ago and still fighting multiple relapses. But very proud of how far I've come...

YouTube link . More interesting than the title would imply.  Try the first minute (especially liberal-progressives trying to adjust to t...

YouTube link . Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she...

YouTube link . From the producers of TED talks, via Neatorama .

YouTube link . The content is hard to summarize; this more an "inspirational" talk rather than the "instructional" ta...

YouTube link . It doesn't matter how many card tricks you've seen or how jaded you are; these will knock your socks off.  I fin...

Youtube link .  Plankton longer than a blue whale, and animals that use body parts of their victims to build a home. But mostly awesome ...

First, if you haven't seen my " Talking Babies " post at Neatorama, you might want to pop over and look at it - twin baby boy...

Mental calculators were in great demand in research centers such as CERN before the advent of modern electronic calculators and computers.....

This dragonfly has the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world (twice the distance covered by the runnerup Monarch butterfly)....

"Planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of a...

Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran discusses the Capgras Delusion , phantom limbs , and synesthesia (including the bouba/kiki effec...

An explanation in nine minutes of how the astrolabe worked. The earliest devices date from about 200 BC, but by medieval times they became...

TED talks are invariable thought-provoking. This 18-minute presentation by Juan Enriquez begins with commentary on the state of the econom...

Are there any bad TED talks? I haven't encountered any so far. In this one Bonnie Bassler , professor of molecular biology at Princet...

When I posted an item two days ago about starlings removing quarters from car wash machines , I was reminded of something I had seen long a...

There is a tendency on TYWKIWDBI (and most other blogs) to lean toward "lightweight" topics - funny pictures, brief stories, and o...

This is one of the TED talks - a remarkable collection of educational lectures. This one is just four minutes long and worth viewing.