TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

13 June 2012

Smell receptor

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Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a section through the olfactory (smell) epithelium of the nose. At centre (orange) i...
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"Um Yah Yah" - the history of the St. Olaf "rouser"

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The fight song for St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) can be heard on several YouTube clips (including at the 2:00 mark here with 15 p...
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12 June 2012

Schoolteacher's homestead

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Schoolteacher Miss Mary Longfellow holding down a claim west of Broken Bow, Nebraska. An article in a recent issue of Smithsonian Magaz...
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Mnemonic memory system

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I'm posting this because it is the system I learned in the 1960s for memorizing lists of words.  I lost the book in the 1970s, but still...
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"Bridalplasty" is NOT a joke by the Onion

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YouTube link .  I thought this video was a comedy sketch or parody when I first started watching it.  Had to stop and check -  it actual...
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Barry Goldwater, old-school conservative Republican

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I remember not liking him when he ran for President in 1964 but the prediction above is interesting, as is this comment from the Reddit ...
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11 June 2012

Basket-woven hair

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I'm not sure if I'm using the proper term.  A quick search revealed modern examples here , here , and here , with results looking...
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Regarding immigration policies

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An interesting observation from an editorial in Forbes magazine last year: A new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy f...
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Creepy perfume advertisement (1983)

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For those who think the inappropriate sexualization of children in advertisements is a recent phenomenon, note these photos by Frances...
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An abacus seller (1860s)

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Minimally cropped from an 1860s photo by William Carrick , in the collection National Galleries of Scotland . As in other European capi...
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Fires and forest density

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Observations from an article in The Economist : The wildfire raging in New Mexico’s historic Gila National Forest has already scorched so...
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10 June 2012

Magma cum laude

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YouTube link .  A scientist is determined to get some totally fresh molten lava from the lake in Nyiragongo volcano, "which has som...
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Practical use of the transit of Venus

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I didn't watch the event this past week - I'll plan to catch it next time in 2117.  The best summary I've seen of the scienti...
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Human sperm cannot smell Lilies-of-the-Valley

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As part of an investigation of how sperm find their way to ova, the following was reported in the Max Planck Gesellschaft : In their curr...

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Via High Fiving a Million Angels and Titam et le Sirop d'Erable .
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