TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I thought I had blogged this before, but can't find a relevant old post. This seal was actually a seal to King Tut’s fifth shrine. ...

When I was growing up in Minnesota in the 1950s, the logo of the Minneapolis-based Land O'Lakes agricultural cooperative (above, wit...

YouTube link . A Rube Goldberg apparatus is even better than a marble run . See also: A marble run incorporating a dozen antigravi...

From Harper's Magazine in 2008.

YouTube link . Haven't seen a Covid commercial yet?  Here's a supercut of all of them.

You learn something every day.  This was totally new information for me: Nearly half of the Moon’s soil is made of oxygen , an essentia...

As reported by VICE : The far side of the Moon is a land of quiet mystery. Because it always faces away from Earth, all the noisy radi...

An op-ed in Bloomberg cites one example of the waste of medical supplies: A few weeks before my husband died on March 7 at the age of 55,...

As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday: We found that when the person said “stay healthy,” numerous droplets r...

Don't see the boat?  Look more closely.  Via the oddlysatisfying subreddit. Related information here and here .

Posted because the image looks so much like a dollop of cookies-and-cream ice cream.  Via .

Hospitals across the country have deferred or canceled non-urgent surgeries to free up bed space and equipment for covid-19 patients. ...

Most readers will already be familiar with more common word-building  processes such as prefixation and suffixation, in which an affix is ...

YouTube link . Siphonophores are of special scientific interest because they are composed of medusoid and polypoid zooids that are morph...

This is the penultimate of what will eventually be ten weekly posts with material from my old "humor" scrapbook.  The content var...