TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

One out of 64.  (Although I have read reports that it was 6 flips out of 7 - if so, some reader can calculate those odds for me). The c...

YouTube link . "Tom Rinaldi tells the remarkable story of Kayla Montgomery -- who, despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis...

I've been unable to find details about this painting, except that it is entitled "Girl with a Pearl Headdress" and is attri...

Robert Krulwich explains: Around now, as we begin December, the Clark’s nutcracker has, conservatively, 5,000 (and up to 20,000) treasur...

Excerpts and a couple photos from an interesting post in Spitalfields Life : "As if I were being poked repeatedly in the eye with ...

Image cropped for size from the original at imgur .

I've been reading about eighteenth-century Portugal in This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Scie...

As explained at Quartz : Public libraries are a relatively new phenomenon. Before the 1880s, when Andrew Carnegie started funding th...

Yesterday, my wife was in the process of preparing one of her multi-bean soups when she noticed some unusual material in a bag of South A...

Last month the CPD [Chicago Police Department] found that 80 percent of its 850 dash cams do not record audio, and 12 percent don’t record...

Mark Copsey, 44, was levelling a recreation ground for a hockey pitch [in Somerset] when he spotted something in the soil. He found a ...

He has also posted a video "How I got burned." Image and text via imgur .

When I saw this photo, I thought it was a picture of a toy. I don't have time to blog the details today; if you're interested, y...

I was reading in my recent issue of Harper's a review of a new book of the letters Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife over the course o...

YouTube link . "If you think running a marathon is a feat in itself, imagine doing an ultra-marathon up a mountain . At "The ...