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...

 Very much looking forward to this.  Premieres October 14, 2026 on PBS (NOVA) in the USA.

If you have friends who believe that human beings are the center of everything and humans are the reason for the existence of the universe, ...

Via Kottke

My rule of thumb: if it's a David Attenborough video, it's worth blogging. BTW, if you've never used the "fullscreen...

There's nothing fundamentally "new" in this video about beavers being reintroduced into Scotland, but the results are impressi...

This is a long (20-minute) video designed to be both entertaining and instructive.  For those in a hurry (which is most of us), here's a...

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

Apparently the key is to tickle open the cloacal sphincter. After getting swallowed by a frog, [a water scavenger beetle] can scuttle down t...

" Brumation is a term used to refer to dormancy of reptiles, which is metabolically somewhat different from mammalian hibernation. ...

I'll never forget the moment Carl Sagan described the number of stars as being greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of...

Interesting engineering video - especially the demonstration of sediment deposition using colored sand.  Not really new info, but worth a br...

Very cool five-minute animation if you can view fullscreen on desktop rather than phone.  Interesting how the Pacific equatorial current sma...

Posted for my family in Asheville, whose home avoided major damage, but whose community is devastated. And I'll add this video of a lake...

... if you have a love or fascination for the natural world.  This video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute documents the dis...

The process of writing posts for TYWKIWDBI keeps driving me to various corners of the internet, where I encounter things that I not only did...

This video is concise (12 minutes), informative, and presented in a professional manner.  New information for me and perhaps some readers - ...

No need to watch the entire video, but worth browsing for sea glass collectors.  I have on occasion spent a couple hours on the shore of Lak...

A TEDX talk in which an American ophthalmic surgeon explains how "manual small-incision cataract surgery" (MSICS) with a 50c scalp...

A very interesting and entertaining portrayal of the speeds of various birds on land and in the air.  There are lots of surprises (vulture,...