As a service to our ever-expanding WLBOTT community, we want to make you aware of a serious, possibly life-threatening health danger: The Blue Lined Octopus. Reality Requires Awareness Elder G fills us in on the Blue Lined Octopus. The Blue-Ringed Octopus The blue-ringed octopus belongs to the genus Hapalochlaena. Despite being about the size of […]
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Spoonerisms
Recently, in a discussion with Elder DZ, I mentioned “Ion, the joon of Mupiter,” and it caused me to reflect on Spoonerisms. Ion, the Joon of Mupiter, as Interpreted by AI: Spoonerisms: The Nuts and Bolts [1] WLBOTT Wonders: Apocryphal – Does that mean it appeared in the Bible? Let Us Reflect and Mis-communicate Joe […]
Paraskevidekatriaphobia: the fear of Friday the 13th. Who are we to judge? Some of us are afraid of cantaloupes or crumpets. – NPR Friday the 13th – the Nuts and Bolts Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar […]
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Let’s Get Small
The WLBOTT research team is playing around with it’s new USB microscope. The Actual “Science” Ethics Panel Follow-up
One of the most universally recognized archetypes is that of the woman-moose priestess. But first, a moment of reflection… WLBOTT:G, the moose-woman priestess? Should we expend our limited resources on the story of the moose-woman-priestess – the most universally identified archetype – found in every culture, every continent, across all recorded time? Given that my […]
In our recent blott about Pippi Longstocking and the real-life Swedish sailor-turned-South Sea Island King, we wondered if WLBOTT should include Papua New Guinea and Twine Tour destination. Then we recalled that, long ago, we read a book about Kuru and other prion diseases (can’t recall the title). Kuru is a very weird (and 100% […]
Just the Heads Let us drill down, just a bit. Judith The Handmaid Señor Holofernes
In our past couple of blotts, we’ve mentioned the Power of Women movement during the baroque and renaissance art periods, so we were digging into the paintings a bit more. Disturbingly, there are a huge number of renaissance paintings of a woman (Judith) cutting off the head of a scruffy guy (Holofernes). A Little Background- […]
We are shocked, shocked! how often people confuse Micronesia and Lichtenstein! Perfectly understandable, of course, but let’s do a compare-and-contrast to help us remember in the future. Lichtenstein is one of only two double-landlocked[1] countries. Micronesia is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific. [1] Not only is Lichtenstein land-locked, but all […]
Elder JimZim is once again attempting to prove the Earth is round. We fully support his efforts. On a recent flight between WLBOTT regional offices, he became curious about the horizon. How do you calculate it based on your height from the ground? Flight 314159, Somewhere Over Alabama Elder JimZim, apostle of Spherical Truth, sits […]