TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I don't remember the context of the post and whether I expressed it in the post or in the comments, but somewhere several weeks ago I of...

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

Yesterday evening I was looking for some distraction from doomscrolling the internet.  While wandering around I found the above movie on Ama...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is a UNESCO World Heritage site because of its monumental statues (moai).  For several hundred years it has captur...

This is one of the books I read during my "blogcation."  I won't offer an extensive review here, because it is already well-kn...

I recently read an interesting review of The Monkey and the Monk (Univ Chicago Press, 2006) and found a copy in our library system.  The bo...

Another addition to my list of recommended books , this one explaining in detail the hypothesis that an immense and abrupt irruption of wate...

I suppose everyone is startled when they first encounter these passges in the  Epic of Gilgamesh : "What I had loaded thereon, the whol...

This is one of the three best books I read in 2025 (the others being Orbital and Playground ).  As the title indicates, this book elucidate...

I have a new favorite president. Before reading this book, literally the only things I knew about James Garfield were that he was featur...

This is an interesting longread about the Weimar Republic (Germany from the end of WWI until the mid-1930s).  It is a richly detailed book, ...