~metafilter | Bookmarks (937)
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Reminding ourselves of how we came to have the values we have
Several ancient epics would be a lot shorter if all it took to reconcile the feuding...
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Bittersweet Legacy of the Bandanese People
NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice is a great documentary about a holiday staple....
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Sour Grapes
America invented the perfect grape, then banished it into obscurity. I found out why. (SLSlate)
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Who is this?
During the Cold War, Air Force Col. Harry Shoup was one of the commanders in charge...
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Tom Harper's 'War Book'
War Book is nothing but people talking. And it is riveting. It is terrifying. - MaryAnn...
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Where are they now?
What ACTUALLY Happened to the Rudolph Puppets? - The Bizarre History Behind the Animagic Swamp Jawn...
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Southern right whales can live up to 150 years
Southern right whales can live up to 150 years, but others aren't so lucky. At opposite...
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The gift for a quadracentennial? Paper
On December 10th 1624, the population around Utrecht faced a crisis: rebuild the dike along the...
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Florida Man Breaks Laws and Violates Ethics.
The Gaetz ethics report is out. According to a 42-page report by the House Ethics Committee,...
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Conjuring a respectable asset out of thin air
In this new Era of Good Feelings—to borrow a phrase from early-19th-century American history—skeptics have become...
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'When I'm helping, I'm happy'
Eight Months Inside New York's Migrant Shelters: Fear, Joy and Hope. (SLNYT - photoessay) "...many inside...
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He had to do it to em: In search of 'Lucky Luciano' 10 years after meme
A surprisingly emotional, soulful and wholesome journalistic profile of the then-17-year-old kid whose photo captioned "I...
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Jigs And More Jigs
Please enjoy the soothing precision of the Top 100 Woodworking Tools Hacks from Yasuhiro TV.Pleasantly, you...
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Edward Dahlberg's 'Because I Was Flesh'
Edward Dahlberg — for I've finally begun to read him — was a genius, sure. Having...
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'Her Story'
Chinese feminist comedy "Her Story" is on course for US, international release. It's a smash hit...
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In the future, there is only Torrent Duck.
If you only have time for one more video of a duck swimming in white water...
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Turtles of Grayskull & Friends
"From the excitement of the Nacelleverse (see: RoboForce's Detonator above) to Hatsune Miku, Mötley Crüe, Voltron,...
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'We must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.'
Biden commutes most federal death sentences (WaPo), ahead of Trump's plan to resume federal executions (NYT)...
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Unhealthy love stories
Dark romance explores the murky areas of love and desire, often characterised by fraught power dynamics...
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What's on your Christmas (or regular) dinner table? It's the Free Thread
The penultimate #FreeThread of 2024. Following last week's breakfast post by DirtyOldTown, what are you having...
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In this village of tiny homes, young people find their independence
In this village of tiny homes, young people find their independence. A once-empty suburban lot in...
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Bill Labov, champion of sociolinguistics, passes at age 97
He didn't tell people how to pronounce his surname, so he could study how people said...
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Bring out the GIMP
A short twenty years after GIMP 2, there is now GIMP 3."A Brief (and Ancient) History...
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A Gruesome Dietary Adaptation
Squirrels Are Displaying 'Widespread Carnivorous Behavior' for the First Time in a California Park. The familiar...