TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

31 October 2025

Halloween greetings to my neighbors

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Ghosts rising from tombs... A pumpkin patch... ... and a hybrid "cat-witch" Brought to you by the same neighborhood chalk artists ...
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27 October 2025

Humans were never hypercarnivores. Neanderthal consumption of maggots clouds the data.

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Excerpts from an interesting paper in Science Advances . Reconstructions of Eurasian Neanderthal diets based on stable nitrogen isotope rati...
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Finally a documented case of voter fraud

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A woman who cast her dead mother's mail-in ballot for President Donald Trump has been ordered to read a book and write an essay on votin...
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Tardigrade egg

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Because I like to end my blogging day with an interesting image .   Colorized scanning EM.  Here's another one: At the via I found this...
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26 October 2025

Today I learned something about arrowheads

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The embedded photo was posted in the Arrowheads subreddit with the question " why so small ?" The short answer is "because i...
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Student handcuffed for carrying a bag of Doritos

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" Baltimore cops swarmed and handcuffed a high school student after an artificial intelligence tool mistook his bag of Doritos for a we...
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24 October 2025

"Mad Hatterpillar"

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Mad Hatterpillar . Winner, Behavior: Invertebrates. Georgina Steytler showcases the strange headgear of a gum-leaf skeletonizer caterpillar....
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"The Night Manager"

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I first saw this series in 2016 and rated it 4+ (i.e., excellent and worth re-watching).  Fortunately after 9 years I had forgotten enough d...
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23 October 2025

World championship boogie-woogie dancing

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  Finals of the competition held in Fauske, Norway in 2012.  This is high-quality video that looks great on full-screen. The origin of ...
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22 October 2025

Word for the day: "Lunch-shaming"

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Excerpts from an editorial in the Minnesota Star Tribune : Imagine being a hungry child at school, only to have your hot lunch tray taken aw...
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Fascinating artifacts found in the nests of vultures

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A professor of prehistory at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain conducted a proper archaeological "dig" in the nest o...
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21 October 2025

Found on the "What Is It ?" subreddit

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There are lots of fascinating subreddits including  What Is It? where people post images of items and ask for identification.  Today someon...
18 October 2025

Res ipsa loquitur

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17 October 2025

"No Kings" day tomorrow

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"Saturday’s national “No Kings” protests seem likely to be huge, and the Trump administration appears especially concerned and worried ...
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16 October 2025

Trump offers medications at 654% discount

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Ponder for a moment the widespread extent of abysmal ignorance that went into this public presentation.  Someone assembled those data, then ...
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