the Catherine Palace (35) by Dmitry Karyshev (cc by)mumimor has some interesting thoughts about Eyebrows McGee's question on Decorating a Baroque palace | Continue reading
Christmas gifts by Maria Eklind (cc by-sa)What should I send friends as pick-me-up gifts? What would you like to receive as a pick-me-up gift? In Ask Metafilter, dearwassily is looking for little surprises to cheer friends going through heavy times. | Continue reading
Dumplings, Steamed by iamNigelMorris (cc by)"Map showing the spread of dumplings," "Stuffed boiled dumplings and the Mongol Empire, 1200–1350," "In the Beginning, There Were ... Dumplings?" and more in kliuless's delicious dumplingfest. | Continue reading
Fantastic by Matt From London (cc by)Elegy for a Criminal Lawyerthe quirks of Boreal Owl parentingNot, to the best of my knowledge, woven underwaterHow many apples?Hank Green Explains the Climate BillYes it's real and this is true.Not a star, a chorizo | Continue reading
Voting is now open for the Metafilter Steering Committee! | Continue reading
Vaudeville all summer long by rockcreek (cc by)In The Money is in All the Wrong Places thread, Jane the Brown muses on the modern celebrity professions versus the olden days of touring companies and troupes and vaudeville.(Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, there seem to be a number of … | Continue reading
climate change by stockcatalog (cc by)"... in this video you're going to go from understanding more than like, 80 or 90% of people, to understanding this more than 99% of people. And it's only going to take you like 15 minutes." | Continue reading
Towels at my Other Gym by Colin Davis Studio (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, things you routinely have multiple types of but you should just get identical versions? | Continue reading
Another "hey, what are you playing" games roundup post in Metatalk | Continue reading
The star in questionBe careful not to look directly into the chorizo! James Webb Telescope captures rare cured, smoked, spicy star. | Continue reading
tiny frying pan is looking for more people having terrible ideas, following through. | Continue reading
"What's in a name?" by jack dorsey (cc by)as someone who studies gender, the evolution of nonbinary / trans communities, and cultural ideas about androgyny, I'd categorize "Bixby" as in the name group moving pretty rapidly from a prior masculine-of-center position, to a current " … | Continue reading
There is a more summer dish than this ? Water melon, feta and mint. @ristorantelavolpenera #tuscany #toscana #toskana #chianti #salvadonica #summerdish #watermelon #feta by Salvadonica, Chianti, Tuscany (cc by)nayantara is looking for unusual food combos in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Did you know that every Saturday we have MetaTalktail Hour in Metatalk? Most people don't know that. | Continue reading
lollipop by Flóra (cc by)at which point everyone ... took pieces of his head home for later snacking: ricochet biscuit reminisces about the ultimate giant chocolate gift in this thread about a giant disgusting lollipop (and other giant disgusting food). | Continue reading
DSCN3846edit by jon pratty (cc by)"Shoots you down in a lifeboat, in choppy water, at night, on Easter.": I'd like some insight as to why this sign would be on a state supervisor and an office manager's door to their shared office. Mysterious! But Ask Mefi answerers come through! | Continue reading
DNA by Caroline Davis2010 (cc by)there's virtually no predictive power to say "I inherited [x] from my (grand)parent so I probably inherited [y] as well": metaBugs helps us out at the deep end of the gene pool in Ask Metafilter. | Continue reading
Le Guin in 2009. Photo via Wikipedia, by Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State Universityhumbug posts the shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! | Continue reading
The cat in question (Vatnesine photo)Our cat is very very shiny, it is one of her main skills ... In Ask Metafilter, Vatnesine wonders What is the albedo rating of my very shiny cat? | Continue reading
He was a hero banker, not words that go together these days ... adept256 has a great comment about a guy named Amadeo Giannini and the early 20th century Bank of Italy in San Francisco, the Great Fire, and Snow White. It will all make sense, I promise! | Continue reading
The hustle by allaboutgeorge (cc by)I like to dance to music, alone, in my room. But I don't have any moves. | Continue reading
Shopping cart thrown in a lake. Birds flying in the background by Ivan Radic (cc by)Recently metalloid biologists have made the exciting discovery that in fact, bicycles and supermarket trollies are NOT as previously thought separate species, but are in fact dimorphic male and fe … | Continue reading
When I worked on industrial robots, we had a rule, DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDS (or any other body part) IN THE ROBOT'S WORK ENVELOPE: cyanistes comments in the case of the chess robot that broke its child opponent's finger. | Continue reading
Scooby by sietyn (cc by-nc-nd)One Metafilter member seems to have a theory about that Brinks truck robbery ... and their username hints that they just might have an inside scoop. Hmmm. | Continue reading
The Metafilter Transition Team announces that self-nominations are now open for the inaugural Steering Committee | Continue reading
Common Starling: From the Right. Number! by birdsaspoetry (cc by) Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? No, but really. Why? | Continue reading
Sciatrix has some excellent recs and observations for some of Eric Flint's non-1632 series books in the Flint obituary thread. | Continue reading
Summer reading by miyagisan (cc by-nc-nd)In Ask Metafilter, I'm on staycation in a week and want to spend a good part of my time in my backyard, off the internet and social media, with my nose jammed into a book that I can't put down. | Continue reading
auto-focus to the rescue by auspices (cc by)If you are ever in my area and want to pet an emu, get in touch! birdsongster introduces Lucy and Ricky in the Emmanuel Don't Do It thread. | Continue reading
Frame by seyed mostafa zamani (cc by)RichardP posted Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force | Continue reading
Scene of the crime (novels) at Hay on Wye by Ian-S (cc by-nc)In Ask Metafilter, There have been many mystery novel questions but this one is mine... | Continue reading
In Metatalk, Transition Team Post #4: The team shares the initial member survey results. | Continue reading
Gasoline by Ayolt de Roos (cc by)ShooBoo posted Jalopnik's excellent multi-part series on the history of gasoline by Jamie Kitman | Continue reading
spoonful of diamonds...... by Rolf Dietrich Brecher (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, jeszac is looking for your favorite not-widely-known versions of songs that are themselves widely known? Great answers here. | Continue reading
✨ As someone who's spent the better part of the last decade working on the camera, NIRCam, that took the picture...tomorrow's images are going to be even more gorgeous, let me tell you. – RubixsQube, speaking in the James Webb Space Telescope first images thread. (!!) | Continue reading
Picnic sallad by Magnus D (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, spindrifter is looking for "ideas for summer meals or components that can be made in a batch and eaten over the course of the week for easy dinners with no or minimal cooking in the moment." | Continue reading
Starred by kevin dooley (cc by)storybored posts about Trabian Shorters and "Asset Framing," a cognitive skill to magnify humanity. | Continue reading
rainier by dnak (cc by)Roses are red; cherries are, too So many cherries, what do I do? | Continue reading
I seriously would have a read a whole book just about two fifteen year old best friends/runaways running a store with cool platform shoes: thivaia on the best thing about Go Ask Alice ... what kitten kaboodle calls "aspirational shopkeeping goals." | Continue reading
Episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with cortex, Jessamyn, and loup! | Continue reading
Lundby Restoration by Studio Sarah Lou (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, What are your proven tips and tricks in keeping, maintaining, and nurturing a little kitchen and pantry? | Continue reading
Country Girl 13 by martinwcox (cc by)"What's it like to be a girl in a band?" Box posts about the women who built grunge. | Continue reading
Apocalyptic giant flying bioluminescent jellyfish destroying a city, digital artRhaomi entertained the Saturday night crowd in Metatalk by fulfilling requests for art by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 | Continue reading
I work in the space and have a few observations ... Jilder shares insider insight on those bizarre free-to-play mobile games / ads. | Continue reading
Terrible National Park Reviews (Illustrated) | Continue reading
Squardle screenshot via setsideb.comDaily puzzles in art, geography, and more (also, see this Ask Metafilter question) | Continue reading
Torn & Cut One Dollar Note Floating Away in Small $ Pieces by photosteve101 (cc by)headspace on the affluence / class privilege connection among editors and writers in the publishing world | Continue reading
Boarding by G.A.I.N (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, some very interesting answers to Why do so many Japanese ferries still exist? | Continue reading