TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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Chrysilla volupe , with iridescent colors.  Photo via , where the discussion is mindless drivel.

This is not a new concept.  The flushing of toilets creates aerosols that emerge from and hover above the toilet bowl.  Those droplets may ...

And walking out upon the beach below    The cliff, towards sunset, on that day she found, Insensible, not dead, but nearly so,   Don J...

The image was captured by expert photographer Dhritiman Mukherjee. His shot, snapped in India's National Chambal Sanctuary, is highly c...

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In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Ernest Hemingway describes the impending death of a hunter suffering from a gangrenous leg (bol...

This concept is counterintuitive, and totally new to me. Modern Monetary Theory is an economic philosophy based on the idea that all sta...

"A rastrum (or raster) is a five-pointed writing implement used in music manuscripts to draw parallel staff lines when drawn horizonta...

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A disappointing reread of a classic work that captivated me in my late teens, when I eagerly consumed this and You Can't Go Home Ag...

YouTube link Most unusual video of the year so far.  Not dancers per se; these are professional acrobats. p.s. - I'm not "back...

Excerpts from an interesting longread at the Washington Post : Birds from southern Minnesota are now popping up far north in Ely, on the edg...

 It's not just the Caribbean that's getting hot.  The data above from July ; I've not seen data for August, when the temps norma...