TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."
14 December 2016
A sweet potato is not a yam
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Don't leave your office computer on and unattended
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As reported by Vice's Motherboard column: Next time you go out for lunch and leave your computer unattended at the office, be carefu...
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"The Man Who Knew Infinity"
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YouTube link . The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical drama film based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Ka...
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11 December 2016
Divertimento #119
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"A survey of 29 wind farms showed that 194 bats a month were killed, although the figure is likely to be higher because many of the...
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10 December 2016
Timelapse of Google Earth images
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YouTube link . What I find most fascinating is not the spread of cities, the shrinking of glaciers, or the drying of lakes, but rather t...
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"The Lady in the Van"
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YouTube link . I watched this movie last night. Absolutely delightful. A tour de force by Maggie Smith. The Lady in the Van is a ...
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07 December 2016
Jupiter's aurorae
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"Jupiter has aurorae. Like Earth, the magnetic field of the gas giant funnels charged particles released from the Sun onto the poles...
Gleanings from "The Road to Little Dribbling"
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George Everest (for whom the mountain is named) didn't pronounce his name EV-erest , but as EVE-rest - just two syllables. A listing ...
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"There you have cricket"
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Imagine a form of baseball in which the pitcher, after each delivery, collects the ball from the catcher and walks slowly with it out to ce...
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Friendly fire deaths at Pearl Harbor
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"Most of the civilians who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were killed by American antiaircraft shells . “There was so much...
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06 December 2016
Exercise Tiger at Slapton Sands
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"To the north from here stretches a duney expanse called Slapton Sands, so similar to the beaches of Normandy that they used it for...
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One of Dogbert's better ideas
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So sad
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"Richard T. Ramsey and Sue Ramsey hold hands while looking at the skyline from the remains of their house of 41 years, Thursday, De...
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Kleptocracy and kakistocracy explained
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Kleptocracy (from Greek: κλεπτοκρατία , klépto - thieves + - kratos rule, literally "rule by thieves") is a government with co...
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Did a Hugh Williams survive a wreck in Wales yesterday?
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"On December 5, 1664, a ship sunk in the Menai Strait, a stretch of water with tremendous tidal swings off the coast of Wales. All 8...
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