TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

As reported by The Guardian : The discovery of a soundproofed torture chamber believed to have been used by a narcotics gang should remind ...

Downtown Houston, 1970s.  Not to imply that before the 1970s Houston was "paradise," but Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi seem...

Both images were sent to me via email from an unattributed source.  The one above purports to be from Popular Science magazine, and while th...

"... we should note that in any true Northwest Coast settlement hereditary slaves might have constituted up to a quarter of the populat...

"One reason intellectual debates of the mid eighteenth century seem so strange to us nowadays is precisely that what we understand as l...

There are lots of ways to start solving a Wordle puzzle.  I've seen several suggestions to start with ADIEU in order to identify the vo...

Photo from a patisserie in Prague, via .

Worst deaths among large high-income countries.  Note this is not because we're a big country.  The graph shows deaths per capita (per ...

Not any more.  They've been reclassified - as explained by Karen Oberhauser, Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum:...

As reported by Bloomberg : Ten million dollars, $15 million, $25 million, more: Big money is back on Wall Street . Not since the late 2000s,...

An interesting article at Phys.Org describes a new discovery near the center of the Milky Way. An unprecedented new telescope image of the ...

I've not featured any posts about the National Butterfly Center , but it really is quite a remarkable place.  Located in Mission, Texas ...

Unfortunately I've lost the source for this depiction of some recent additions to the world of emojis.  I do remember the discussion not...

Relevant:  A blizzard of snowflakes in the red states The American Library Association tells me that there were 330 “challenges” in the thre...

Her students included "Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones and many many more."  Via Kottke .