TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

YouTube link .  One of the greatest actors of our time, dead way too soon.

The Faulkner Glossary contains both local Mississippi dialect words and the "highfalutin" words of conventional English used b...

YouTube link . An NPR post tells the truly remarkable story of a woman who can only see things when they are in motion .  If you can...

Credit Armand Grobler/Barcroft Media.  One additional photo in the Telegraph picture gallery .

In an effort to increase the popularity of golf among young players, the PGA is encouraging formats in which particpants compete as teams ra...

From an eye-opening op-ed column in the Chicago Tribune 's Business section: If you find yourself in a hospital for more than a few ho...

The girl is Palestinian, but she could have been Israeli, because, as the Kikuyu people in Kenya say, "When elephants fight, it is t...

YouTube link .

Every year the Scrabble gods add new words to the 100,000+ already approved by the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.  This year dubstep ...

I recently tried to find a certain type of business near a certain location and discovered that I could no longer use Google Maps for that p...

A beautiful, delicate creature - and the epitome of "ephemera." Mayflies spend the majority of their lives in an aquatic env...

YouTube link . This is the first of four videos posted by Catherine The Brave .  It will teach you why you would not want to have a moof...

A New Yorker column explores "sartorial slumming" - It now appears, according to an article on the British Web site The Conver...

A hospital in south-central France has come up with an unconventional, not to mention extremely French, idea to try to improve the lives o...

I found this big fellow hustling across the grass under a walnut tree.  He had apparently fallen or been dislodged from the foliage above...