TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

This is one of the most interesting things I've found today and it was worth a quick browse (only fast-forwarded a couple times).  Despi...

"The Maguires at the launch of their debut album, Little Giants and Other Oxymorons at Temple Bar Tradfest in January 2017.  This clip ...

I hadn't even finished watching before deciding it was blogworthy, especially when I learned why angel wings resemble watermelon slices.

I was blown away last evening watching this documentary movie from our library.   I have zero background education in art history, and had n...

Today while on a butterfly hike at Badger Prairie County Park (Verona, Wisconsin) I encountered Rosie the Rock Snake.  This was clearly a c...

I didn't know this creature existed.  Saw it mentioned recently and had to go back to a 2019 article by Ed Yong in The Atlantic for an ...

I first learned about Elizabeth Bathory 40 years ago when I was researching the manifestations of sleep paralysis in literature and folklor...

From the collections of the Victoria and Albert : [A panel from] The Oxburgh Hangings. Hanging with applied panels of embroidery, formerly ...

A ceremonial mask from the Benue River Valley region of Nigeria, from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The black and r...

It was not until my adult retirement years that I began to understand that dandelions are perennials.  I have harvested some really deep-ro...

I've had this pair of stamps in my collection for decades, labeled "ventilator" cancels , which I assumed without research was...

As soon as humans became aware that infectious diseases could be transmitted by fomites (inanimate objects), attention was directed to de...

Not sure I trust the image, but the principle appears to be valid. Until the 1960s, popular belief held that most mammals outside of primate...

This one is many months old, because I save them to a DVR and watch whenever.  I believe what I've embedded above is full-length rather ...

This rock was identified at the whatsthisrock subreddit as a " penecontemporaneous deformation structure ."  It apparently is suc...

The video is a full-length recording of an hour-long presentation at the Boston 2026 World Exposition of Philately.  The Telemark postal dis...

Mogging’s origins are in the manosphere , where it began as a verb derived from the acronym “Amog” (alpha male of the group ). In misogynist...

Explained at the whatdoesthismean subreddit: Those little black dots on your car’s windshield are called frits. They are printed on the gla...

The patient's wife posted this image in the whatisit subreddit, where I learned that this is a modern xray marker.  I spent 30 years re...