TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

04 March 2019

Cool graphic of Lake Baikal and the Great Lakes

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I don't remember if I've ever featured the Great Lakes profile (right portion of the graphic) in TYWKIWDBI before.  Redditor u/bu...

American neo-Nazis reorganizing

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As reported in The Guardian : The year and a half since the Unite the Right far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended in mayhem,...
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Teacher goes the extra mile

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To foster a love of reading, elementary educators tell their students to read a book at night, or have someone read to them . One prin...
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"... there are some juveniles involved in the fatality situation..."

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I heard that phrase while listening this morning to television coverage of the outbreak of tornados in Alabama.  Public officials often reve...
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01 March 2019

"Overton window" explained

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The Overton window is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse , also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after po...
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Another source for Shakespeare's writing

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As reported by the New York Times : For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the hel...
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"No rational person would do this" to an apartment door

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I could have saved this for two weeks from now, but I'm planning a blogcation then.  Via the funny subreddit.
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70-car accident on Iowa interstate highway

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YouTube link This past week there was a 130 -vehicle accident here in Wisconsin.  Same conditions -  whiteout weather from snow and/or ...
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28 February 2019

A tip for used-book buyers

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I recently decided just for fun to browse a group of books about Edward Gorey, and discovered that in addition to the books written and...
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27 February 2019

Eagle tracked for 20 years

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Apparently a Steppe Eagle .  Via the MapPorn subreddit.

Atlantic salmon, farmed in Wisconsin

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YouTube link "[Just] up the hill from an abandoned schoolhouse in the rolling hills of west central Wisconsin about 33 miles sout...
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Immense courage. North Carolina, 1956.

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Dorothy Counts , whose nickname was Dot, was dropped off on her first day of school by her father Herman Count along with their family f...
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Another video of falling dominoes

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YouTube link . This one shows some truly innovative variations. One small request to makers of videos like this.  Listening to the so...

How much snow can the roof of your home tolerate?

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This extraordinary winter has created much anxiety among homeowners worried about whether their roof can withstand the weight of the snow...

This is a "duck"

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The photo shows the Kamil Gulec Library in Turkey - its exterior designed to resemble a shelf of books (there is a similarly-designed li...
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