TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

Also reposted from 2020, which was a good year for humor posts.  via .

I wasn't blogging on "pi day" this year, so I'll belatedly repost this old item from 2020.  Image cropped for emphasis f...

Before i turn to the Word,” the preacher announces, “I’m gonna do another diatribe.” “Go on!” one man yells. “Amen!” shouts a woman several ...

A photo from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Awards competition.  Click to read the explanatory caption. Also, che...

Excerpts from an article at Bloomberg : At the break of dawn [on] July 8, 2020, as police helicopters circled overhead, a SWAT team appeared...

Excerpts from an email I received this evening from one of my cousins: "I recently returned from a month in Perú where I learned more a...

In a video interview published on the right-wing social media platform Rumble, Sen. Ron Johnson said it “may be true” that vaccines against ...

The drone footage embedded above is not from the start of the pandemic two years ago - it's from this month .  Americans who bitch about...

Just a reminder that it isn't over: China’s worst Covid-19 outbreak since the initial wave of the pandemic worsened Tuesday with a majo...

Photo from a patisserie in Prague, via .

Worst deaths among large high-income countries.  Note this is not because we're a big country.  The graph shows deaths per capita (per ...

babyelefant, n.Unit of measurement for appropriate social distancing ellenbogengruss, n. A touching of elbows in greeting fussgruss, n. A to...

A Beauty and the Beast classic repurposed for a good cause.  ( Comments closed because there's nothing more to say.) Reposted from 202...

Excerpts from his full-text letter published in Harper's : This controversy started after I made a few statements in a meeting to the ef...

The coronavirus pandemic initially manifested itself in the United States in "blue" (Democratic) districts - especially inner-city...

Pretty much as everyone remembers this unfolding, but I have to say that the second recent peak is rather startling.  Via Kottke .

The skin condition known as Covid toe may be a side-effect of the immune system’s response to fighting off the virus, according to a study. ...

"It’s worth recalling that in the early days of the pandemic, Republican COVID denialism began as a largely reflexive partisan instinct...