image via vanityfair.comMefites are discussing Vanity Fair's list of 31 feel-good movies to boost your mood. | Continue reading
keyhole face 2 by leketoys (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, darchildre is looking for locked room mysteries in any medium | Continue reading
All done by Kit4na (cc by)Literaryhero posted a story about plumbing and people, and a man called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and it's a great plunge into life, the loo, and everything. | Continue reading
Kat Allison shared a post about the 40 Best Stand-Alone TV Episodes (Slate) and reactions to it are great. Check out the various and wide ranging alternate suggestions in the comments! | Continue reading
Image via CanvaCome take a moment or more with brainwave's excellent post about Light. It's an online magazine about poetry, that's been online since 1992, even longer than MetaFilter! | Continue reading
image via mercermuseum.org"My absolute favorite genre of museum/attraction is 'eccentric rich person's oddly sorted collection of items related to their special interest(s).'" ActionPopulated asks where to scratch this itch. | Continue reading
antarctica research base by ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ (cc by-sa)Mefi member chariot pulled by cassowaries posted How Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent. A 2019 study of scientists over-wintering in Antarctica revealed subtle but measurable changes in the p … | Continue reading
Photo by Christina Branco on Unsplashdrewbage1847 has a great post all about honey, delightfully drizzled with interesting recipes. Sweet! | Continue reading
Screenshot showing animators Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova"The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film": Rufous-headed Towhee heehee posts about the beautiful, unfinished stop-motion film that has taken the record for longest animation production of all time. (a … | Continue reading
There's a absolutely fantastic post from user 'dhruva', about photographer Fyodor Savintsev and his gorgeous photos of dachas, the Russian wooden houses built in the woods or countryside. | Continue reading
What do you do when Case stopped manufacturing your favourite tractor 110 years ago and none are available on the used market? If you are Kory Anderson you start a foundry so you can build, with help from your friends, a brand new Case 150 steam road tractor. | Continue reading
Oh, wow, interesting! From moonmilk, in Music: For an installation at Moogfest in 2016, I put a bunch of sensors in a beehive and used the data to generate drone music. The sensors included air temperature and air pressure and some touch and light sensors to sense when bees were … | Continue reading
It all started with some buzz about the golden bees of Childeric I, and then ... . Also, beefore it's time: . | Continue reading
Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's … | Continue reading
from art by Susan Wilkinson on unsplash.comat some point the mechanics of the cheese come into play, and what starts out as a faster stream of a continuous connected bead of cheese foam will begin to break apart into a cheese sputter, then a cheese spritz, and eventually a sort o … | Continue reading
72 years ago in Iowa, a worker named Mary Foss wrote a message onto an egg. She put the egg into a carton and sent the carton out for distribution. Last month, someone responded | Continue reading
Didsbury Old Parsonage Sundial Panel Install 1 by Sundials by Carmichael (cc by)zamboni posted Time in the Sun about the site "Stained Glass Sundials" featuring hundreds of amazing stained glass timepiece installations with sundial faces that allow you to tell the time from insid … | Continue reading
MetaFilter member ' bouvin' posted about Pete Beard, who has just published his 100th episode of 'Unsung Heroes of Illustration', a series which covers illustrators born between 1850 and 1910. | Continue reading
The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), Claude MonetYou are a man of guile, means and influence in Victorian England and you know what orders to give to get the following done. You want to have a patient kidnapped from a hospital and secretly installed with people you trust. We … | Continue reading
Screwdriver on a White Background by wuestenigel (cc by)You need to do a thing - NOW! For when you need to calculate a thing, or look up a thing, or be able to do the thing in your Browser without any faff: Faintdreams posted a Big list of free In-Browser, Single Use tools | Continue reading
Gone by M.P.N.texan (cc by-nc)I'm a Certified Professional Organizer ... Mefi member The Wrong Kind of Cheese again comes to our aid with great, specific advice, this time in a question about dealing with the unneeded, unused, yet still emotionally meaningful items that sometimes … | Continue reading
A years long search for the cover artist of an edition of "A Wrinkle in Time" comes to an end with the help of WBUR's Endless Thread podcast | Continue reading
I hope I'm the only sideshow-school casualty out there. I spent a month or so in the hospital after my own act went horribly awry... in sword-swallowing, everyone gets hurt eventually. Transmissions From Vrillon shares first-person experience in the post on Sword Swallowing And I … | Continue reading
Over in Ask Metafilter, community member 'OHenryPacey' chimes in with a great answer about what's best for dental implants and grafts. | Continue reading
Bridge as seen from the north Community member 'Kat Allison' made a post about the deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and repor … | Continue reading
drewbage1847 made a post about the many, many, MANY, variations of scrambled eggs. Come enjoy this tasty list! | Continue reading
Pancake Crescent Moon with Earthshine by Dawn Sunrise (cc by-nc-nd)What would be the logistics of making pancakes on the moon? freethefeet needs to know. | Continue reading
Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash"Recently saw a map where they had divided Europe into butter Europe and olive oil Europe. If this had been a map of the world, what other oils would be on there?" Interesting question from iamsuper, lots of great answers, and fascinating backgro … | Continue reading
Horace Rumpole posted an eclectic selection of digitized manuals from the Internet Archive, curated by Jason Scott | Continue reading
photo by Tira Howard Photography for SWAIAIf the Indigenous community has its version of the Met Gala, this would be it ... Mefi member Bottlecap offers info and highlights on the designers and designs at the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market | Continue reading
Can you paint a copy of the Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? Share your masterpiece! | Continue reading
Green sauce. by theexploradoradrewbage1847 has posted a bevy of beautiful summer herb sauce recipes. | Continue reading
gentlyepigrams posted "My Parents Are Dead: What Now?", a resource with useful advice and links for folks who are working through one of the awful parts of adult life. | Continue reading
Illustration by Marc Johns (marcjohns.com)spamandkimchi asks for songs with lyrics about food (especially pie!) | Continue reading
Oil Refinery Reference #133 by claralieu (cc by)cotton dress sock asks "How close to an oil refinery is too close?," and flug has answers. Lots of answers. | Continue reading
Metafilter podcast 193: What was previously my discretionary time is up! | Continue reading
Rhino Reclining by tinyfroglet (cc by)VIAMQ! (Very Important Ask Metafilter Question): My 5-year-old wants to know if there are any living rhinos named Clara. "She knows already about the 19th century one, but wants to be reassured after the recent death of a different rhino name … | Continue reading
Image from page 195 of "The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects;" (1850) by Internet Archive Book ImagesIf the leopard caucuses long enough with the face eating party, maybe look askance when … | Continue reading
Love that we have a member who's a traffic safety researcher commenting in the Speeding Ticket thread. TheKaijuCommuter talks about elements in the (US) built environment and issues that subconsciously trigger people to go faster. | Continue reading
Is this chatfilter? Maybe... This is our "Ask Mods Anything" (AMA) Session! For the MetaFilter Fundraising! Head over to Metatalk for more details ... | Continue reading
SUPER informative post for Women's World Cup of Soccer 2023 by Superilla | Continue reading
"...one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history." Community member brundlefly links to a story of the Zenith Space Command, one of the earliest examples of a remote control for television. Many memories ensue! #metafilter #bestofmetafilter #retro #remotecontrol … | Continue reading
"I think the movie has a few different messages, all of which overlap with one another, which is another very campy thing: when you're parodying dumb, incoherent things by embracing them, you wind up a little incoherent yourself."Over in Fanfare, community member 'Tom Hanks Can't … | Continue reading
So, I can anecdotally compare my experiences of congenital dysautonomia and long Covid, but I have to do it along two dimensions. One is the dimension of symptoms, and the other is in terms of social and medical treatment ... Dr. Mew speaks on long Covid, fatigue syndromes, overl … | Continue reading
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Club français du livre, 1964) by -ep- (cc by)I'm reading Moby Dick. It's fun! But I'm sure I'm missing a lot. This is where you come in ... wooh is looking for good explanations and analyses for our favorite great white whale. | Continue reading
spamandkimchi posted Equip Me OT [Occupational Therapist] Lindsay DeLong, featuring "tips galore on using medical equipment at home, diy hacks & modifications, and recommended items for people with mobility & accessibility needs." Very excellent. | Continue reading
Image from page 148 of "The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man" (1882) by Internet Archive Book Images"I already do Set, Wordle, Guess My Word, Worldle, and Spelling Bee ... Math, logic, word-based: I love them all. What else might I like?" DrGail asks Give me you … | Continue reading
Big Ben word game [via mefi projects] "A unique puzzle for each second of the day, with lots of nice touches ..." Paul Slade posted malevolent's new Big Ben word game, and mefites are comparing scores. | Continue reading