TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known wild bird, has had a chick at the age of at least 70 . The Laysan albatross hatched the c...

The image above was reported and explained at  The Guardian  as a "superior mirage," defined as follows at Wikipedia: "A supe...

"A small bowl bought for just $35 (£25) at a market sale in the US state of Connecticut has turned out to be a rare 15th-Century Chine...

It's a smell I've recognized since childhood.  Popular Science reports on the ability to detect or recognize the odor(s).  The most...

As reported by Tucson.com : PHOENIX — A lawmaker persuaded the Arizona House to let businesses ignore mask mandates to stem COVID spread par...

Via The Siberian Times : Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.  Res...

As reported by The Guardian : Amanda Gorman, the poet who won acclaim for her performance at Joe Biden’s inauguration, has told of being fol...

This past week Journey North has posted some reports from the Monarch sanctuaries in the mountains of Mexico, where there is now evidence t...

Yes, you can sow seeds on top of snow. The photo above is the second in a sequence posted by Marcie O'Connor on her incomparable blog Pr...

Best comments : Singer stuns #CPAC with unexpectedly avant-garde tribute to Charles Ives and Frank Zappa with radical key changes and use of...

This summer [2014] the StarTribune carried a long feature article on the possible role of neonicotinoids in the decline of bees. A new cla...

I dealt with liquid oxygen during my career, but never saw the actual substance.  Interesting that it has color*. Liquid oxygen —abbreviated...

Posted for my cousin Doug down in Naples.