TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

02 November 2021

Stone mask

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"With their vacant eyes and enigmatic, toothy expressions, the 9,000-year-old stone masks from the area around the southern Judean dese...

Awesome mudslide in Switzerland

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Interesting that it looks like pretty darn good topsoil.  But note the power of the mudslide. Related:  massive avalanche from the face of ...
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Where some people get their information

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Christ Church wants to create a theocracy in America

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As reported in The Guardian : A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambiti...
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When midwives carve pumpkins

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Originally posted at The Sun , via Neatorama's Pictojam .
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Take a break from the internet's "gloom and doom"...

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Via Neatorama's Pictojam (check it out - but remember to come back here)

So you'd like to buy a cryptocurrency...

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" Squid Game , or SQUID, [is] the latest memecoin sensation, inspired by the Netflix hit. It surged more than 230,000% in the past week...
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When a cat plays"Dungeons and Dragons"

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  DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’  DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM ‘...
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Blue Jay halfway through puberty

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31 October 2021

A vampire overslept on this bench this morning

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Image cropped for size from the original here .  Reposted from 2018 for Halloween 2021.
29 October 2021

That's not dew on the leaf. It's guttation.

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Guttation is the exudation of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants , such as grasses, and a number of ...

A one-hour helicopter flight over Antarctica

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Awesome.  Perhaps better viewed on a wide-screen television rather than a computer monitor. Here is her video about recovering extremophiles...
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The 2-million-year evolution of the genus Homo

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This simplified schema was created to accompany an article in Evolutionary Anthropology which suggests designating Homo bodoensis  as a new...
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Ötzi's clothing

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A study newly published in Nature's Scientific Reports uses mitochondrial DNA analysis to determine the animal sources of the variou...
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A "2X4" is not 2" x 4" in size

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How did I get to my age without knowing this? In the Americas, two-bys (2×4s, 2×6s, 2×8s, 2×10s, and 2×12s), named for traditional board thi...
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