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We had no idea how this person got his ATV on top of his car, or why...until now. After a number of reddit posts spotting an ATV on a car in Minnesota appeared, another redditor who happened to know the guy inquired and got us the answers we needed in video form.
posted by nTeleKy at 10:14 PM PST - 35 comments

Curious Clocks And Watches Through Time With Oliver Cooke [16m] has everyone's favorite British Museum horologist showing off peculiar clocks and interesting mechanisms from basically the beginning of clock movements. I didn't know this would be so incredibly interesting!
posted by hippybear at 7:46 PM PST - 2 comments

Palestinian writer Mahmoud Habboush on how Medieval Arabic Culinary Literature Offers Lessons for the Present. [New Lines Magazine] Aside from the excitement of knowing what people ate centuries ago, these books are priceless because they reveal the social life of the upper strata of Arab and Muslim medieval societies. Medical treatises, for example, abound, containing information about ingredients — their benefits and side effects — as well as some dishes by name, but rarely do they provide nonmedicinal recipes. Literary sources — also easy to find — shed a little more insight into the cuisine of the past, sometimes delivering the recipe in prose or as a poem, but that is the extent of it. They don’t reveal the full richness of medieval haute cuisine. [more inside]
posted by Ahmad Khani at 3:54 PM PST - 12 comments

As a data researcher, I had to get to the bottom of it. What followed was months of categorizing hundreds of action movies, consulting experts in the field of name studies, reviewing academic papers and name databases, and seeking interviews with authors and screenwriters as to the rationale behind their naming decisions. It turned out I had only scratched the surface. from Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John?
posted by chavenet at 1:19 PM PST - 57 comments

10,000 Gecs, by 100 Gecs - 26min (Soundcloud, Youtube) Pitchfork review - it has furthered their interest in thrash guitars, ska revival, and pop-punk that generally sounds quantum-leaped in from a turn-of-the-century Hot Topic. You thought you loved computer glitch but, my friends, have you met slap bass? [more inside]
posted by CrystalDave at 12:29 PM PST - 29 comments

My first mathematical activity with students. Fresno State professor Howie Hua teaches math to future elementary school teachers. TikTok (How to mentally calculate the decimal representation of elevenths), Twitter (Factoring quadratics), Youtube (Are you using rectangles when multiplying and dividing?)
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:01 AM PST - 7 comments

"The unspoken criterion for this list is that any album that came out when I was in high school will be ranked at least 25 spots higher than it probably deserves." A 100 album-strong list that's really less of a list and more of a long meditation on debuts, albums, and the author's life with music. (But number one is hard to argue with) (not that I don't expect you to try). [more inside]
posted by Gin and Broadband at 8:34 AM PST - 130 comments

Ren - Hi Ren [more inside]
posted by fings at 6:58 AM PST - 21 comments