TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

30 June 2015

Assassin bug - updated

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I was out in our garden yesterday collecting Monarch butterfly eggs (found twelve of them).  The photo above shows the surprise I found u...
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Piñata

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Piñatas bearing the likeness of the billionaire mogul have begun popping up in Mexico , a response to controversial comments Trump made a...
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Elementary information about the Sherlock Holmes canon

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 They left out my favorite: Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, ... It was a ship which is associated with the gi...
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29 June 2015

"He endured being called a girl..."

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He endured being called a girl, playing sports with waist-length hair and attracting disapproving looks from adults — all for a chil...
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Three years without shampoo

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"...you do the following instead of using shampoo: put baking soda in your hair, rinse it out, put apple-cider vinegar in your hair,...
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If you enjoy mathematics, this video will be painful to watch

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YouTube link .
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Music hath charms...

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An article at Long+Short addresses the question "Can music offer the key to treating dementia?" In most cases of dementia, rega...
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27 June 2015

Divertimento

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Awesome hair coloring . A photo album of African Hero Rats - trained to detect landmines .  "The pouched rats are perfect for the ...

Harmony

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YouTube link .
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26 June 2015

The best state for business? High-tax Minnesota.

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CNBC is the premier business channel on television.  Their views on public policy and national politics are predictable and emphatically exp...
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Public shaming

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YouTube link . The malefactor parked his vehicle in a handicap spot in Brazil.
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Most U.S. children under age 5 are minorities

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Another chart showing race and ethnicity of this group is posted at Business Insider .
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25 June 2015

Walmart has commissioned a new truck

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YouTube link .  Presumably the next step will be to make it driverless.  With a hat tip to my old classmate Wren.
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24 June 2015

A guide to penis worm teeth

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Palaeontology has published a detailed study of the teeth of priapulids in the Burgess Shale. "As teeth are the most hardy and re...

"Goldfish the size of dinner plates are multiplying like bunnies."

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The Alberta government is launching a campaign this summer to stop people from flushing their aquariums down their toilets. Goldfish ...
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