TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

14 January 2021

Awesome origami

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  The 7" scorpion was created out of one uncut square of Korean hanji paper. This is an example of "hex pleating," a design ...
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12 January 2021

It's a planthopper nymph

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Via Neatorama .

Zip cuffs confirmed in the Capitol insurrection

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Photo (cropped for size) from Snopes , which has additional photos of others carrying zip cuffs, plus a video of the Capitol police opening ...
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"Here's your refund. Don't return the item"

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A somewhat counterintuitive corporate retail policy:  Retailers have a new message for consumers looking to return an item: Keep it. Amazon....
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11 January 2021

29 holes in Mars

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"We all know Mars as the Red Planet, we see that in the night sky. However, as our drill tailings gallery shows, once we drill just a s...
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"My Octopus Teacher"

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  Available on Netflix, and should be of interest to anyone who loves the natural world.  This gif of a man interacting with a wolf spider ...
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13th century numeral system

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A single icon can represent any number up to 9999 (see bottom row).  It's not hard to decipher .  Break the icon into four quadrants, th...
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Walking with the insurrectionists

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Excerpts from an essay in The Atlantic : I told the woman in the cat costume that I would walk with her group. “Only if you take off your ma...
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17 "priors"

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"A 73-year-old Green Bay man has been charged with his 18th drunken driving offense , after a crash Friday that took out power lines an...
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09 January 2021

Flowers and moths in Wisconsin in the winter

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I don't hike the arboretum in winter, so the photos here are of our yard after the first heavy snowfall of the year.  But I do get newsl...
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Amber bear amulet (Slupsk, Poland)

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"The amber bear amulet was found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk,Poland. When the figure was examined it turned out to be the amulet...
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Last lines of novels

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t ...
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The coronavirus "lab leak" hypothesis

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You've heard the rumors, the chit-chat, the idle speculation - that the current coronavirus pandemic is the result of a "leak"...

Mommy, can we watch the TV show about the giant penis?

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"John Dillermand has an extraordinary penis. So extraordinary, in fact, that it can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a fla...
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Music from the dorsalis pedis

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Arguably the most interesting item I bookmarked during my blogcation, as reported by the New England Journal of Medicine - A 65-year-old ma...
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