TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

The 39th president of the United States lives modestly, a sharp contrast to his successors , who have left the White House to embrace po...

This APOD image was captured in Iceland last December.  It will serve as my Christmas gift to everyone while I take some time off from blog...

As reported by Archaeology News : "Recent excavations at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Antalya, Turkey , have revealed a limesto...

Image cropped for size from the original posted at the mushroomID subreddit : "A bunch of them by a tree trunk, firm but with a wet pla...

Discussion at a puzzles subreddit thread, with best explanation here .

First I encountered this photo of an absolutely awesome cactus (at L'oeil ouvert , via ).  The caption was in French, so I had to Go...

I'm impressed by the projects being undertaken in Mexico by scientists and indigenous people to extend the vertical range of Monarch ove...

I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married y...

This morning several people have contacted me on this subject, so I'll just briefly mention that my family and friends have not been di...

I should think most everyone is at least tangentially familiar with "dust-bathing," a behavior niot uncommonly seen in farmyards, ...

I am in awe of the gorgeous clothing worn by these Palestinian girls attending the opening of a school in Khan Younis, Gaza.  I looked for a...

This week I've been watching One Hundred Years of Solitude;   in a recent episode a character was described as a "fellmonger,"...

"Frost flowers" are "a strange phenomenon where frost grows from imperfections in the surface ice amid extreme sub-zero t...

"A 2000 Bowman Chrome Tom Brady rookie card as seen through the CT scanner. (Image provided by Industrial Inspection and Consulting)...

Sofia Johnson holds up part of a roadkill doe at her home in Minnetonka in 2022. (Shari L. Gross/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Excerpts from a...