TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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12 November 2017

Trailer for "The Post"

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"Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Wash...
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Equifax sells your salary history

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As reported by NBC News: The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country...
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Impressive "dead spot" on a tennis court

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The original video of the televised 2011 tennis match is here .  The science was discussed on All Things Considered .

Carfentanil - "A dose as small as a grain of sand can kill you"

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From a report in The Guardian : Developed in the 1970s as a tranquilizer for large animals such as elephants and bears , the synthetic opi...
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10 November 2017

Rope art

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The artist is Janaina Mello Landini
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WWII shipwrecks are disappearing

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Reports of this have been appearing for several years, but The Guardian has just compiled a longread with excellent illustrations: Doz...
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Why did my phone think I was in Mongolia ?

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I took a rather poor panorama shot in the north woods of Minnesota.  Just before deleting it, I noticed the location information.  It...
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Buenos Aires bookstore

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"... Buenos Aires has more bookshops per inhabitant than any other city in the world , according to a recent study by the World Citi...
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"History of art rewritten"

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"The history of art has been rewritten after archeologists unearthed an astonishing 3,500 year old carving of an ancient Greek bat...
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"We’ve got people in charge of important shit who don’t believe in science"

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Actor Harrison Ford took a swipe at Washington on Thursday night, blasting lawmakers and leaders who deny climate change. During a speec...
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School daze

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From Real Life Adventures .
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Maps of the world's forests

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Found at EarthArtAustralia , which also has maps of waterways and other physical features.
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Screencap from local news

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Interesting juxtaposition of stories.  ("OWI" is "operating while intoxicated.")  Reports of people with 5 or 10 OWI ...
08 November 2017

Bookmobile, Jefferson County Texas, 1935

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From the Foodporn, historyporn, earthporn tumblr, via Ego is a rat on the sinking ship of being .
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Unread books

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"Knowing a book’s relationship to other books often means you know more about it than you do on actually reading it... we also forge...
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