TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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05 September 2024

The world is full of fake crystal and fossil specimens - updated

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Image cropped from the original posted in the whatsthisrock subreddit.  I suppose in all fairness one could refer to such a thing as an obj...
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"Wide-based gait" demonstrated

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Everyone who studies medicine learns that a wide-based gait (or broad-based gait) is a characteristic feature of cerebellar disease.  Other ...
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03 September 2024

Pawn = Queen chess puzzle

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This may be an old puzzle, but it's the first time I've seen it.  At the start there is a pawn in the LR corner, which needs to be m...
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02 September 2024

"A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm"

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Herewith some excerpts from Edwin Way Teale's classic 1974 book.  I've just finished what I think is my third reading of the book, a...
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01 September 2024

What a wonderful attitude

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"Among all those we have heard about and known, among all the past and present dwellers in the village I think the most remarkable was ...
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30 August 2024

I saw it in the newspaper

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Several examples harvested from Bad Newspaper , which has hundreds of these.
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"Robocrop"

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A new version of the world’s first raspberry-picking robot , a four-armed machine powered by artificial intelligence and able to do the job ...
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The complex definition of "genocide"

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During the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian Serb fighters took roughly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys to predetermined sites before kil...

Why the eagle couldn't fly

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"Wildlife officials in Missouri rescued what they thought was an injured and flightless bald eagle ... Rangers from the Missouri depart...
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J.D. Vance's views on women

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"JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate and US senator from Ohio, attacked teachers who do not have children in newly res...
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Matching dinosaur prints in Brazil and Africa

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"More than 260 footprints were discovered in Brazil and in Cameroon, showing where land-dwelling dinosaurs were last able to freely cro...
29 August 2024

Bumper snicker

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28 August 2024

First day of school

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Also reposted from 2020, which was a good year for humor posts.  via .
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A woman describes her encounter with a strange man

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(You may need to unmute at the icon in the UR corner) https://imgur.com/gallery/qRdd0Ab Reposted from 2020 because we need more humor now...
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27 August 2024

"Perfect days" is an interesting movie

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  When I posted the video of Nina Simone singing "Feeling Good" last week, I did so because I had just heard the song used as the...
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