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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