~metafilter | Bookmarks (974)
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A new documentary about Tomoaki Hamatsu, aka 'Nasubi'
An interview with the Japanese comedian about the upcoming documentary (NYT gift link) on Hulu, The...
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Philosophy doesn’t only matter for the ivory tower
By leveraging a unique large dataset and new techniques for exploring this dataset, our paper highlights...
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10 PRINT 'HELLO METAFILTER'; 20 GOTO 10
For many people, the first time they tried to take control of a computer centered around...
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Shut Up 'n Play Yer ... Bicycle?
In 1963, a clean-cut Frank Zappa appeared live on the Steve Allen show playing a musical...
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Tis no man tis a remorseless eating machine
"It wasn't the second helping on all-you-can-eat, but the third" an executive explained. After losing $3.3...
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In other news, water continues to be wet
The Media Matters study of tradwife influencers and the rabbit hole to far right conspiracies.
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Art, games, music, zines, and a list of fictional badgers
The blogging platform Cohost (previously) has launched a new section: Artist Alley, where members pay to...
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'That Summer' Official trailer
"That Summer" Peter Beard (and his then girlfriend Lee Radziwill) was the impetus for the June...
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I'm warm, therefore I think
Why have philosophers had so little to say about Descartes's stove, and so much to say...
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Orangutan becomes first wild animal seen using medicinal plant on wound
Sumatran orangutan becomes first wild animal seen using medicinal plant to treat wound.A Sumatran orangutan has...
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Buttonwood Zoo Red Panda Cam
Buttonwood Zoo (in Massachusetts, USA) has a Red Panda Cam.
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The children who remember their past lives
What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that aren't hers? In Louisiana in 2000,...
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The Battle for Attention
Nathan Heller on the secretive Order of the Third Bird: There is a long-standing, widespread belief...
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He was encouraging me to take a stand.
His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life. (Robert Cormier and The Chocolate...
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hear that whistle blow
Biden administration forgives $6.1 billion in student debt for 317,000 former Art Institute students The decision...
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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
You could call them "sky flowers," but that doesn't really make sense either—after all, the faded...
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Claire Re-Recreates
Remember back in 2017-2020 when everyone was aglow with the warmth and camaraderie of the Bon...
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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
Palm OS and the devices that ran it - a retrospective on the popular PDA and...
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Merely a best-selling author in these parts, a rock star in Paris.
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with...
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A Pretty Good Series On The Reform Party
As part of Secret Base's Patreon based restructuring, Internet video troubadour and oddity explainer Jon Bois...
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How to Identify Cinematic Themes & Visuals of Ancient China
Part 1: From the S Dynasty to the Chin Dynasty. Part 2: From the Chu-Han contention,...
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Endangered Ocelots May Be Expanding Their Range in Texas
Endangered Ocelots May Be Expanding Their Range in Texas. DNA testing of an ocelot killed in...
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My life has gone off the map, it seems. Possibly also off the rails.
At the frame shop there is so much beauty, it can't be real. Maybe this is...
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Fish performs Misplaced Childhood for its 20th Anniversary
Shockingly, the 20th Anniversary of Marillion's album Misplaced Childhood is over twenty years ago! Anyway, FISH...