Gimme All Your Love

Alabama Shakes Brittany Howard photo via alabamashakes.comWowzer. Rhaomi has crafted a no-stops-left-unpulled lovefest of a megapost on Alabama Shakes and Brittany Howard. | Continue reading


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Peace and Quiet By the River

Are you having one of THOSE days and needing a bit of soothing peace? Then come sit by a river in the Smoky Mountains of America and listen to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach, in this post by yankeefog. | Continue reading


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A Fantastical Tale Of A Great Hunter

Screenshot from the animation, Atreides has a wonderful post about the Missour French Creole folk tale of 'Chasse Galerite', which has been beautifully animated by Brian Hawkings. | Continue reading


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You Should Be Able To Walk, Run and Dance In Every Outfit

Nya garderoben by Magnus D (cc by)It's throwback Thursday! Come enjoy Metroidbaby's 2014 post about building and maintaining a wardrobe! | Continue reading


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'Tis the (broth) Season

Chicken broth by purpaboo (cc by)It's the colder time of year in the northern hemisphere, and Czjewel has a question about chicken broth, which resulted in a lot of tips and suggestions! | Continue reading


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No Seriously, Let Me Fix That For You!

Shoe repair by knapjack (cc by)Bella Donna's post about France offering subsidies for clothing repairs has spawned an excellent collection of tips on clothing and shoe repair! | Continue reading


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"Weird Podcasts Are the Best"

The black sheep in the family by CazzJjRebent's collection of insomnia busters to keep the brain bots at bay | Continue reading


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And Still They Endure

1978 Citroën 2CV 6 Charleston by Rutger van der Maar (cc by)Oh, mon dieu! Sonascope has posted 75 years on four wheels and an umbrella, an absolutely magnifique megapost on Citroen's iconic 2CV. | Continue reading


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Dangling

Frayed by colin_n (cc by-nc-nd)We all know that there can be inherent problems using analogies and metaphors in argumentation, but as analogies go, this one is an absolute zinger: Two unicycles and some duct tape on the Polarization Dogma. | Continue reading


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The Ultimate Sandwich

In Ask Metafialter, doift asks about the best sandwiches you have ever made or eaten. | Continue reading


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You Thought You Could Throw Me Away

A Cycle of Joy" (2023). All images © Thandiwe Muriu Heyho created a post that showcases Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu and her work with wax fabrics common in Central and West Africa. | Continue reading


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Launches, Landings and Other Elements

Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space With Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth by NASA Goddard Photo and Video (cc by)Doctornemo has a fantastic post about what's been going on the past month of humanity's exploration of space! | Continue reading


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The 5 Most Favorited Posts Of the Last 24 Hours

Hearts by byzantiumbooks (cc by)British Seaside SimulatorBuild Your Own Ghost HouseNPR's Reading The Game: Kentucky Route Zero20th Anniversary of Mr BrightsideA faithful reproduction and restoration of John Gould's A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds | Continue reading


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If On A Winter's Night ...

Recommended: Smitten Kitchen's one-pan farro with tomatoesIn Ask Metafilter, HeyAllie wants to know What's your favorite 5-ingredient (or less!) go-to winter recipe? | Continue reading


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The Crabs Are Here To Help!

By Nhobgood (talk) Nick Hobgood - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11449055Have you ever wondered what an army of crabs would be good for? Community member Hypatia created a post about why scientists will unleash said army off the coast of t … | Continue reading


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"... There Are Some Questions That You Should Ask"

Mefi has a friendly neighborhood HVAC guy! Member HVACDC_Bag gives an in-depth, interesting answer to Tehhund's question about Choosing a HVAC system and installer | Continue reading


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A Tasty Long Con

duck confit with vegetable (photo from Canva) Community member 'drewbage1847' shows folks in the Northern hemisphere how to prepare for winter meals with recipes of the French technique of "confit". | Continue reading


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Hello, Have I Reached the Party To Whom I Am Speaking?

Photo by Quino Al on UnsplashDialing in on the phone on Mefi: JanetLand posted WaPo's guide to modern phone etiquette, while in Ask Metafiler, Rash wants to know why you hold your phone like that, and niicholas is looking for songs with land-line telephone sounds ☎ | Continue reading


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Happy Endings

image via vanityfair.comMefites are discussing Vanity Fair's list of 31 feel-good movies to boost your mood. | Continue reading


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Tales Of Ratiocination

keyhole face 2 by leketoys (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, darchildre is looking for locked room mysteries in any medium | Continue reading


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"Plumbing, the Depths"

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


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TV Worth Watching!

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


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Soak Up Some Light

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


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Seeking More Weirdo's Hoards Of Treasures

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


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How Do You Pronounce "Blizzard"?

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


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After the Bees ...

Photo by Christina Branco on Unsplashdrewbage1847 has a great post all about honey, delightfully drizzled with interesting recipes. Sweet! | Continue reading


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The Overcoat

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


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Dachas

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


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How To Pull 50 Bottoms

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


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Ament Drone

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


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Outlook: Swarmish, With A Chance Of Bees

It all started with some buzz about the golden bees of Childeric I, and then ... . Also, beefore it's time: . | Continue reading


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"Phrygian? I Don't Even Know Ian!"

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


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Cheese Blaster

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


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An Eggcelent Message

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


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Rare Jewels

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


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Unsung Heroes Of Illustration

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


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The Game's Afoot ...

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


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Faffless

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


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Give Yourself Grace

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


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A Mystery That Should Not Exist

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


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"This Unusual Practice"

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


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Over in Ask Metafilter, community member 'OHenryPacey' chimes in with a great answer about what's best for dental implants and grafts. | Continue reading


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The Mystery Of the Bloomfield Bridge

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


@bestof.metafilter.com | 1 year ago

Scrambled In All the Best Ways

drewbage1847 made a post about the many, many, MANY, variations of scrambled eggs. Come enjoy this tasty list! | Continue reading


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Flapjax For Launch

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


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"Olive Oil, Butter, and What Else?"

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


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There's A Manual For That

Horace Rumpole posted an eclectic selection of digitized manuals from the Internet Archive, curated by Jason Scott | Continue reading


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Native Street Style

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


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