TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Posted for family and a few friends with an interest in collegiate football. Other readers can just scroll past to more interesting s...

YouTube link TL;DW?  To skip all the humor, just start at the 3:45 mark.

  Gif here . Video here . TED talk here . And while I'm on the subject, I've always wondered whether the Cold War "sec...

Searching the topic yesterday, I found information at two sites.  First, from Science Alert : Many of us have an ingrained notion that cha...

In 2014 Der Spiegel carried a story about how the Berlin Wall is gradually disappearing, and the mixed feelings Germans have regarding its...

I'll begin with the backstory.  In the 1950s I rode to school with three classmates in a car driven by one of our teachers (I have no...

Via BoingBoing .

Image desaturated from the one found at the via .  I'm surprised this concept hasn't been revived by modern political enthusiasts...

I long ago gave up radio in favor of podcasts.  The most interesting and enjoyable one I've heard this year is embedded above. Radi...

The discussion thread at the coolguides subreddit notes that "lengths" and fabrics are not per se "types," but the g...

Some medieval Europeans slept in box beds - an arrangement that continued well into the 19th century.  An interesting article at Amusing ...

YouTube link . I have featured Hans Rosling on a number of previous posts at TYWKIWDBI because I truly admire his style of presentation....

*Translation: If you can read this you're over-educated Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It's not the heat, it...

One of the photographs of the week at The Guardian .  "Participants perform during the annual Day of the Dead parade in Mexico C...

The images are " before and after " photos of the "El Castillo" step-pyramid at Chichen Itza. The lower photo re...