TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
Trail marker trees
"The obedience of a novice" - Pavel Ryzhenko
A language curiosity
Who benefits from the current gulf war?
Argentinian public service announcement
Why did sand fall out of this old book?
"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous."
Examining and enjoying ditch water
A subreddit for lovers of bread
Kharg Island attacked.
"Humanity hanging from a cross of iron"
Average annual rainfall in the United States
"Clinker brick" illustrated
The Bernese bear will keep his red penis
"The Count of Monte Cristo" now on PBS
This is the "Rebel Loon" symbol
Economic news on a Sunday night
Opinions of jacked-up trucks
Some cycads attract pollinators using heat
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - Bob Dylan
The problems with "eliminating the impossible"
Northern flicker
When people used to turn into trees
Christian Nationalism in the armed forces command structure?
The most amazing musical instrument is the human voice
Foreplay by intellectuals?
You are here
"Spooning" - and "Prufrock" (updated)
An interesting art installation
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
What did you do when you were 4 months old?
Vector math demonstration
Sometimes The Onion says it best
The CIA confirms it overthrew Iran's Prime Minister, Mohammed Mosaddegh
Offered without comment
Factoids and bon mots in "The Overstory"
A brief history of "chestnut blight" in North America
"I am somebody!"
Urban tree risks in a snowstorm
The title of Finnegans Wake
Capitalle - new online geography game
A guaranteed win for a "bar bet"
MAGA turning on Trump?
Seeking help from my readers
"Careen" vs. "career"
Do "oak" and "door" come from the same ancient word?
Blue snow is kind of like yellow snow
Luxury ice houses
This is real
Mortar holes in a California suburban backyard
So many movies, so little time...
An accumulation of pithy quotations
Life lesson from a twisted tree
"Wear Sunscreen"
"So let this new disaster come. It only makes one more."
"A good pool player is a sign of a misspent youth"
Blogcation
Photo of the day
"Couple flirting on a fire escape" (1946)
Parents are refusing Vitamin K for newborns
Guttation
LED color temperature infographic
"Journey to the West"
Lady Macbeth
"The Coster's Mansion" sheet music cover (1899)
A visual history of Mexico City (1300 to now)
Two images of an extrajudicial killing
"Attention span" problems viewing movies
Timelapse of the development of Chicago
"Daddy, what does 'petulant' mean?"
Weather hell on the East Coast
A man and his dog
The difference between "chaos" and "randomness"
"All the fun's in how you say a thing"
The "Agartha" meme ("Himmler's favorite myth")
Anti-vaxxers are now in charge
The difference between freezing rain and sleet
How Minnesotans organize their ICE protests
"The Dutch Angle" explained and illustrated
"The Third Man" theme played on a zither by Anton Karas
Pondering these icicles
The video taken by The Lady in the Pink Coat
Baby, it's cold outside
"The Ark Before Noah"
The Black Sea deluge
"Eden in the East" - Southeast Asia as the epicenter of prehistory
"Dog's breakfast" explained
Chefs call it a "spootle"
Trump's war on Cuba
Camping advice
Remembering Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
The extreme ages of Sumerian kings before the great flood
Found on a Scotland beach. At home it started giving off smoke and a burning smell
Dilbert
"Wherefore" means WHY - and Juliet wasn't on a balcony
Cleaning out some old "Dilbert" saves
Dilbert
If you're known as a competent engineer...
A double dose of Dilbert
Greenland Defense Force
"Sinnerman" (Nina Simone)
"Life in a Day" - a crowdsourced movie
Nasogastric tube insertion into the brain
I had to look this up
Not a flying carpet
These cubes are NOT MOVING
William Faulkner disagrees with Cormac McCarthy's prose style. And vice-versa.
ICE immigration officers are detaining NATIVE AMERICANS in Minnesota
How many martinis is too many ?
Selling flowers on the streets of Aleppo
Trevi fountain
Updated Monopoly cards
"Things you may not know" about Peter Pan
Old Reader's Digest puzzle
Apple iPhone upgrade warning
"Quantum leap" - a potentially useful term
Interesting tool
Why some colonial Americans were born in "1722/3"
Terms used by gen Z to discuss romance and relationships
An interesting chart re Venezuela's oil
A Twixmas present
"Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global"
Centuripe
"Architectron" looks like a fascinating movie
The "Thinker of Hemangia"
Rodin's "Thinker" reinterpreted
An interesting side effect of piercing
A collective holiday greeting to and from the readers of TYWKIWDBI
Today I learned I should poke the eyes out of dead fish
This is a "timeout box" in an elementary school
Listening to auroras
People having fun singing "Creep"
Children having fun with music
Monteggia fracture
Valuable dollar bill
Marked playing cards
Is the semicolon an endangered symbol?
Train Dreams
Re-evaluating the Roman road system
Planning a collective holiday greeting card
How to escape from a frog
Carved conch shell
"Brumation" illustrated
Prices falling 500-700%
Superb Paleolithic art
Chest of a man taking a diuretic
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin 2025 - battle for the Paul Bunyan's Axe trophy
A concise summary of the Oxfordian narrative
A new existential threat to lemurs
"Porgy and Bess" - the American folk opera
Thinking of refugees on Thanksgiving
Word for the day: mews
Clever mashup of 150+ movie titles
The sad slow death of the CDC
How the tariffs have affected me
Clever tee shirt
About those pennies... (updated) (again)
When a penny was "... thirty nine ninetieths of a Dollar"
Sorting pennies in the dark
Arm of man who fell off a bicycle
United Airlines claims a "window seat" does not necessarily need to have a window
Introducing Torx screws
Excellent advice not to "future-trip"
Word for the day: lagniappe
A video review of the butterflies of Wisconsin
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Holes in the pillars of this bridge
Brazilian sand dunes
Wasp nests for home decor
I don't believe inflation is "under control" in the U.S.
James Garfield - president for only 200 days
The Lincoln Project creates some incisive videos
"Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany"
The surprising etymology of "giddy"
Tilted-room sketches by Shaun Micallef
Watching the World Series... from a hotel bed
Halloween greetings to my neighbors
Humans were never hypercarnivores. Neanderthal consumption of maggots clouds the data.
Finally a documented case of voter fraud
Tardigrade egg
Today I learned something about arrowheads
Student handcuffed for carrying a bag of Doritos
"Mad Hatterpillar"
"The Night Manager"
Polio was the "autumn ghost"
World championship boogie-woogie dancing
Word for the day: "Lunch-shaming"
Fascinating artifacts found in the nests of vultures
Introducing the "What Is It" subreddit
Res ipsa loquitur
"No Kings" day tomorrow
Trump offers medications at 654% discount
"Best restroom in the United States"
"Butterfly" hemivertebrae
Jeffrey Sachs' extensive and detailed discussion of the Israel - U.S. relationship. Please listen.
Magic tricks are fun to watch
Minnesotans volunteer to rescue loons
Jane Goodall was an expert on alpha males
Today (10/6) is Mad Hatter Day
Introducing Claire McCardell
If you received a check from the "National Cancer Research Center"...
Advice to a time-traveler
Beard
The complexities of the Russia-Ukraine war
"Of Oz The Wizard"
Why facts don't change some people's minds
Troglodyte's home
This post has been cancelled
An Instance of the Fingerpost
"Coyote tooth dentures"
Two amphipods
An Honest Trailer for Severance
Congratulations to Damn Interesting
Two new captchas
Introducing Euler's number (e)
The beheading of Lady Jane Grey
TYWKIWDBI continues to support Wikipedia - updated
Words for the day: "shoulder pal" and "kidult"
Lake Nokomis [Minneapolis] in the 1920s
A Fairburn agate and a Waterline agate
Is there a GenZ 2.0?
"Blonding" of a tree
This medication capsule is full of little rings
"Seeking a chalk artist..."
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Why Moses has been depicted as a man with horns
Doom and gloom in the world of art