TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Gotta do this.  Otherwise the links accumulate and multiply like coathangers in the closet. Video of massive numbers of mullets (fish,...

Not permanently, but for an indefinite time period, probably extending through the holiday season. On Tuesday, shortly after I wrote that ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered another " vampire grave " dating to the first half of the 13th century: "The...

YouTube link . From the outside, "The Drinkable Book" looks like a normal book. It's about an inch or two thick, with 20 ...

YouTube link . Not card tricks - just (literally) manipulation of the cards by people you wouldn't want to play poker with. Via Ne...

Found at The Washington Post .

YouTube link . This week John Oliver presented a rather funny send-up of the "salmon cannon."   I think the original deserves ...

Consider this scenario: A large number of humans have been prenatally genetically modified to live and work in a nonterrestrial location (...

A couple weeks ago the Washington Post made note of some turmoil in the stamp collecting community regarding the selection of images to ...

From The Guardian : An unprecedented international investigation into tax deals struck with Luxembourg has uncovered the multi-billion do...

A new paper by Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics suggests t...

YouTube link . Sotheby's expects the bidding for this "supercomplication" watch to reach $17,000,000. A video at the Wal...

Parks' resulting work appeared in a 26-photo spread in [Life] magazine. "The Restraints: Open and Hidden" stood out among...

As reported in the International Business Times : Witch markings dating to the 17 th  Century have been uncovered by archaeologists at...

Excerpts from an article in the November issues of Harper's : Before World War I, the majority of eggs came from people keeping a few ...