TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 2,953 Americans were treated in 2007 for toothbrush-related injuries. The odds a pe...

A survey commissioned by the National Geographic Society has identified 850 new invertebrates living underground in the arid central region ...

I haven't posted anything in the WTF category lately... Credit Bits and Pieces .

"Schoolgirl Bhargavi, 7, arranges garlands made from marigold flowers at a roadside stall on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali in...

So spoke Abraham Lincoln, besieged by officeseekers desiring jobs in the federal government, quoted by Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' docume...

This isn't a new event, but today Conservation Report has compiled a number of relevant references.

Note from poet Thomas Bailey Aldrich to zoologist Edward S. Morse: My dear Morse: It was very pleasant to receive a letter from you the...

Scops-owls on a tree stump. These were photographed in India, but they are widespread in the Old World. Wiki says they are "colored i...

For the " smorgasbord " series of posts I always embed a photo of food, or someone eating, because the post is an invitation to yo...

I can't embed them here, so you'll need to go to the links. The one posted today is of humpback whales battling for the right to ma...

A handy, tongue-in-cheek, flowchart that has some errors and arguable points (discussed here ), but otherwise concisely summarizes a vast sp...

The video is of a news story about a young woman who seemed to develop a rare and strikingly unusual neurological disorder after receiving ...

Two screenshots from the 1925 silent movie The Plastic Age , starring Clara Bow. Credit Old Hollywood . p.s. -if anyone recognizes the font,...

A comment in the discussion thread at the source suggests this is the eye of a Plumed Basilisk . Photo credit True Bavarian , via Electric O...

Very soon (perhaps later today), TYWKIWDBI will pass the 5,000 mark for number of posts. As the material accumulates I'm beginning to n...