clew's post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that 'shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat.' | Continue reading
Water in my NYC apartment tastes funny. How to test it? I'm a drinking water scientist and this is what we suggest to customers having water quality issues... | Continue reading
I'll put it bluntly: modern cooking is a social dick-measuring contest: Kadin2048 has an intriguing comment about the 'fixation on cooking at home as a moral good' in theora55's post on... | Continue reading
Slinga has posted the perfectly wonderful 45 minutes of Funky Old Japanese Soundtracks to chill out to, and we love it. | Continue reading
Today in Weird Science!: A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft, teensy little cannibals who eat their own siblings for their own survival, and hot, hot, sweaty manikins. (Hey, it's... | Continue reading
📈🚀🔬👩🏽🔬👀⁉️ We're having theme weeks as part of our fundraising month, and the theme for this week is WEIRD SCIENCE! Also currently in Metatalk, Show Us Your View! | Continue reading
In AskMetafilter, soylent00FF00 says, 'I've learned that I was wrong (dead wrong!) about a couple of scientific 'facts' that I had assumed were kind of 'general knowledge' (for a certain nerdy... | Continue reading
This stuff is crazy, it's like someone found a alien spaceship in the desert and hooked the warp engine to its own tailpipe to answer questions about the universe. — RobotVoodooPower Cash4Lead... | Continue reading
What if MetaFilter...but email newsletter? Well, we've started one and here's the first issue. Discuss and brainstorm and etc. in this MetaTalk thread. | Continue reading
When I hear a chipmunk chucking I look for the nearby raptor: Lots of lovely, fascinating, relatable, inspiring, unusual, surprising, curious, strange, and amusing insights in this Metatalktail... | Continue reading
Hey, folks, it's time for a fundraising push! MetaFilter depends primarily on member and reader funding to operate, and that's even more true over time as advertising revenue continues to decline.... | Continue reading
brainwane has a couple of great posts up about ADHD: The World Federation of ADHD's International Consensus Statement of 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, and 'this was like... | Continue reading
Heyyyy, it's episode 175 of the MetaFilter Monthly Podcast with cortex and jessamyn! | Continue reading
Stately pleasure domes now being decreed and/or erected ➡ This Way. | Continue reading
Best Olympic news of the day?; Where can I find nation agnostic coverage of the Olympics?; Watching the Olympics - Obscure sports edition; What is the the best way to stream the Tokyo Olympics? | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, I'm always feeling, Blue says 'what with the state of the world I've been thinking about fire and flood recently. If I had to get up and go right now, what should go in my... | Continue reading
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk. Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between... | Continue reading
It strikes me that the past is funny and odd and serious and heart-breaking and packed full of people who feel a lot like us: hurdy gurdy girl posts Tom Jackson’s quirky Postcard From the Past... | Continue reading
[I] am an audiologist, hearing aid researcher, and published scientist in this area: Lutoslawski provides a clear channel of info and advice about hearing aids in Ask Metafilter, plus good advice... | Continue reading
Come join us in fanfare to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics! | Continue reading
Gorgik: This post is a perfect homage, given the care and obsession that it took to make it. Rhaomi makes a rather spectacular post on comedian Bo Burnham and his pandemic special 'Inside.' | Continue reading
sandmanwv is asking for tips on eccentric US restaurants or bars with 'severely limited menus and/or kind of weird service offerings'. | Continue reading
Geologist cubeb brings a bit of temporal perspective (and a much better slogan than 'diamonds are forever') to the thread for Karmakaze's post on the incomprehensible antiquity of the Appalachian... | Continue reading
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened with me.' Loquacious gives an inside view of the reality of restaurant work in this grim new Covid + Capitalism timeline. | Continue reading
'These deaths lack individuality!': eotvos posts Paste Magazine's 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time, and Mefites add their own analyses and offerings. | Continue reading
'This next one will be fun!' No it won't. brook horse is looking for non-peppy workout videos for people who hate exercise | Continue reading
> i cant believe how many hot single cabbages there are in my area ... What do you know about cabbage? | Continue reading
MetaFilter has a new formal Privacy Policy document; you can read about it here. | Continue reading
Happy Birthday, MetaFilter! You're 22 this year! That's rather a lot. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, sir jective says, 'I love second-hand drama of reading about terrible people or amazing situations or weird things or basically just good stories ... Essentially, I'm looking... | Continue reading
Mecran01 posted The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? 'because I wanted to see what shape the resistance would take ...' | Continue reading
The dude wired a 35 year old floppy drive directly to a monitor cable and made music and video. Holy shit! – Nelson. JHarris posts The world's first 1541 disk drive graphics demo. | Continue reading
The 'girl in concrete' illusion may not actually be an internet obsession, exactly, but for some of us, it did lead to the introduction of the ha-ha, or hâ-hâ, which is pretty cool ... and which,... | Continue reading
A month ago, Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen... Confused? clawsoon's post on the... | Continue reading
From last month, in the 'that's a darned good question' department, cilantro asked How did servants (or anyone, really) walk upstairs in long skirts with a tray or two buckets or anything that... | Continue reading
oooooh! GenjiandProust offers a collection of weird fiction anthology podcasts, complete with description (including content warning info, where known), average running times, tone, existence (or... | Continue reading
Need some weekend listening? Here's Episode 174 of the MetaFilter podcast with cortex and jessamyn. | Continue reading
oulipian posts Elis Regina and Tom Jobim performing 'Aguas de Março' (video, 1974) | Continue reading
Summer salads and vegetarian pasta sauces wanted, please. | Continue reading
orange swan: I'm a hard sell on the simpler, pastoral/country life 'you can wear this to frolic in meadows' fantasy that is used to market it. Pro-tip: if you should go frolicking in a pasture in... | Continue reading
domdib posts about 'Sable,' a beautiful sci-fi game featuring Moebius-inspired graphics and soundtrack by Japanese Breakfast (due in September), with current demo game available for PC and XBox. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, unus sum says, 'I'm looking for a longish video games to sink my teeth into. I find it nice to have a video game where I can solve interesting problems that don't actually... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, moonmilk is seeking online long form journalism about scams, frauds, shady businesses, and failed businesses — preferably with minimal violence. | Continue reading
I shit you not, I started reading this and thought 'Eh, I'll finish it later.' – hwyengr. Storybored posted Why You Procrastinate. | Continue reading
So, let's talk about the TVA Archive for a bit. If you think it looks familiar, you may have seen it before ... In FanFare, radwolf76 has some great trivia and background about the actual... | Continue reading
From wintersweet, in Ask Metafilter, What are your best tips / gadgets / purchases for preventing things in your household from needing to be cleaned / maintained as much or as often? I don't... | Continue reading