TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I communicate frequently with people in Scandinavia and Great Britain, and on occasion have offered my apologies for our country having plac...

YouTube link . In the mid-1980s I took advantage of the new VHS technology to start building a library of video entertainment - especial...

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YouTube link . Other videos here and here (QI). A rattleback is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will rotate on its axis in a preferre...

I had never paid attention to the Montana-Idaho border, assuming that the squiggly line included a river or two - but it's just a lin...

"As part of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony , four of the world’s great thinkers were invited to give 24/7 Lectures. Each 24/7 Lecture wa...

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An anonymous blogger who uses the pseudonym “Doe Publius” knew he would stir controversy when, in July 2016, he published a “tyrant regist...

Your brain sees the objects being bathed in blue light, so it compensates by adding a red that is not there .  The fact that the objects ...

N ew drivers who are caught using a phone at the wheel will lose their licence under new legislation that comes into force today. From...

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"Eyewitnesses report that upon reaching the center of Bukhara, Genghis Khan rode up to the large mosque and asked if, since it was the...

YouTube link . "Located in Russia, this 400-square-foot home (37 square meters) was built in just a day , at a cost of just over...

I'm tired of blogging, and I'm scheduled to give a lecture next weekend, so I'll plan to use much of this coming week to get ...

  The distinction is explained at Bloomberg Business Week : “ In Latvia, it is normal for you to have dead soldiers on your yard ,” E...