I video our kids on their birthday while I ask them random questions. I am looking for more questions to ask them and record (on paper or video). Questions like "will you get married?", "What do you want to be when you grow up?", "what was the best day of your life so far?".
posted to Ask Metafilter by beccaj at 7:27 AM on March 23, 2012 (21 comments)

Highly cited journals in online / distance education?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ryanshepard at 9:08 AM on March 23, 2012 (3 comments)

Project based learning and interdisciplinary teaching! I'm a high school science teacher working with an enthusiastic English teacher and we're trying to find the best project ideas to use in summer school (and beyond if successful).
posted to Ask Metafilter by kinetic at 2:26 AM on March 30, 2012 (8 comments)

I'm looking for examples of rants by historical figures, preferably pre-twentieth century, the more unhinged and colorful the better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ritchie at 5:02 AM on March 30, 2012 (28 comments)

The top 25 American writers, as determined by the amount of scholarship on them. Literary flowchart by Jimmy Chen.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 11:42 PM on March 29, 2012 (72 comments)

The Enduring Consequences of Unemployment. It is perhaps no surprise that "....workers who lost jobs during the recession of the early 1980s were making 20 percent less than their peers two decades later." Or that unemployment is also bad for your health.... "lA worker laid off at age 40 could expect to die at least a year sooner than his peers." What frames the issue starkly though is that unemployed people gradually lost the ability to read.
posted to MetaFilter by storybored at 10:54 AM on March 29, 2012 (83 comments)

A Woman's Story
posted to MetaFilter by spiderskull at 2:49 PM on March 29, 2012 (69 comments)

ipod filter...What to do with all these non-working ipods? I have 4 older 20mb & 30mb original style ipods that don't work at all. Won't charge or do anything. Also, I have a 5-6 year old Nano that is in the same boat. Is there any hope for these or are they just trash? Any ideas? Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by mikedelic at 5:55 AM on March 29, 2012 (14 comments)

I'm highly skeptical of a lot of brands that trumpet their environmental friendliness. I know "greenwashing" is rampant. What are some green brands/products that walk the walk?
posted to Ask Metafilter by malhouse at 6:47 AM on March 29, 2012 (10 comments)

Skittles’ new level of fame has quickly become a kind of marketing crisis that is threatening to hurt the company even as sales improve.
posted to MetaFilter by Renoroc at 4:34 AM on March 29, 2012 (89 comments)

I realized recently that I purchase a certain brand of tomato sauce because underneath the label lies a very attractive mason jar. Do you have products that you buy almost as much for the reusability of their packaging as the product itself? The Altoids tin would be another example.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gwint at 12:27 PM on March 28, 2012 (92 comments)

Help me compile a list of names of iconic fictional characters from popular songs. For example Jimmy Mack, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Maggie May, Absolutely Sweet Marie, Johnny B Goode.
posted to Ask Metafilter by unSane at 2:32 PM on March 28, 2012 (142 comments)

NPR: "Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world." Now, nearly ten years after his death, thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. "It's part of what Lomax envisioned for [his] collection — long before the age of the Internet." (Mr. Lomax, Previously on MeFi)
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 12:02 PM on March 28, 2012 (27 comments)

KEXP 90.3 FM is a Seattle, WA-based radio station, officially "a service of University of Washington," but it's more complex than that. The first University of Washington radio station started broadcasting in 1952. Five decades, a few station organizational shifts, plus three call letter and frequency changes later, KEXP was (re)born in 2001. Along the way, the station spread the sound of 1990s Seattle indie rock, started streaming "CD quality" MP3 audio of their broadcast in 2000, and they have an ever-growing collection of recordings of live in-station performances, including over 2,000 videos on YouTube.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 1:10 PM on March 28, 2012 (35 comments)

After a 4 year hiatus, memepool is back.
posted to MetaFilter by metl_lord at 12:47 PM on March 27, 2012 (120 comments)

So Tara Tiger Brown of Forbes.com wrote an article begging fake geek girls to go away. Leigh Alexander of Sexy Videogameland responds with "This is the worst kind of thing to me, because not only is it sad for her, but it sucks for all of us. Women in our space, having once been something of a scarcity, face particular challenges. We lack for companions and mentors. " Followed by The Mary Sue's Susana Polo "So yes, I understand the desire to weed the “posers” out of your personal life and interactions. But I have never, actually, in the flesh, met a “fake” geek girl. Or guy. "
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 4:31 PM on March 27, 2012 (207 comments)

Experimental novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose has died. The Guardian has an obituary and an appreciation.
posted to MetaFilter by twirlip at 11:36 PM on March 27, 2012 (12 comments)

It's like a synthesizer control interface made out of molded jello. "Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly."
posted to MetaFilter by February28 at 7:35 AM on March 28, 2012 (8 comments)

Cure for ennui?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 6:09 AM on March 25, 2012 (19 comments)

Any recommendations on an Afghan cookbook? I love Afghan food and would like to recreate my favorites at home.
posted to Ask Metafilter by postel's law at 1:42 PM on March 26, 2012 (2 comments)

Good (English-language) Chinese cookbooks?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Hollywood Upstairs Medical College at 1:10 PM on March 26, 2012 (9 comments)

Recipe Filter: Carrot Edition. Give me your favourite carrot-consuming recipes, stat!
posted to Ask Metafilter by greenish at 9:49 AM on March 26, 2012 (36 comments)

For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming blog posts, Wikipedia articles, classic texts, podcast episodes, popular books, video lectures, peer-reviewed papers, Teaching Company courses, and Cliff's Notes. How inefficient! [...] What if we could compile a list of the best textbooks on every subject? That would be extremely useful.

Less Wrong, a community dedicated to rationality, is compiling a list of The Best Textbooks on Every Subject.
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis at 11:59 AM on March 25, 2012 (49 comments)

The Adjunct Project: Profs on Food Stamps(via)
posted to MetaFilter by Orange Pamplemousse at 3:58 PM on March 26, 2012 (109 comments)

Please recommend books about unique story lines with minimal romance featuring female protagonists.
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrono_rabbit at 11:56 AM on March 24, 2012 (37 comments)

What's so special about French and Chinese laundries?
posted to Ask Metafilter by madcaptenor at 1:56 PM on March 24, 2012 (7 comments)

Ways to increase my kinesthetic awareness and proprioception?
posted to Ask Metafilter by so_gracefully at 2:04 PM on March 24, 2012 (10 comments)

Travel Posters for Lazy People.
posted to MetaFilter by quin at 10:33 AM on March 24, 2012 (26 comments)

Why iced coffee costs so much more than the hot stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by reenum at 8:12 PM on March 23, 2012 (82 comments)

Photo set: drugstore shelves (1970).
posted to MetaFilter by jjray at 7:04 PM on March 23, 2012 (38 comments)

I'm looking for poetry with a feminist leaning and/or covering a certain set of topics.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kanata at 12:39 PM on March 23, 2012 (30 comments)

I have been thinking that mercy is an anachronistic concept that has little application in everyday lives. I'd like to see examples (if any) where mercy may manifest itself in your life or the culture as a whole.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Xurando at 3:17 PM on March 23, 2012 (35 comments)

Push Stitchery Some stiched images are Not Safe For Work (but none the worse for all that)
posted to MetaFilter by stonepharisee at 3:03 PM on March 22, 2012 (11 comments)

40 vintage European posters
posted to MetaFilter by mippy at 5:17 AM on March 23, 2012 (9 comments)

"The result feels like musicians threatening to become content-producers, churning out a steady stream of conversation topics and half-formed ideas without quality control."
The Tumblr trap: Is Internet culture turning musicians into content-producers?
posted to MetaFilter by dunkadunc at 10:35 AM on March 22, 2012 (59 comments)

Fresh tofu in Japan is far better than it is anywhere else, and the tofu in Kyoto is generally held to be the best in the country. This is generally attributed to the skill, refined court and/or temple-influenced culture and the quality of the local water. ... During my week in Kyoto, I was able to pursue one family business’s vision of what tofu should be from beginning to end.
posted to MetaFilter by Trurl at 1:20 PM on March 22, 2012 (30 comments)

Fed up with drugs, a comic about the dark side of chemical salvation. By Charles Saucisse.
posted to MetaFilter by Taft at 10:22 AM on June 7, 2011 (77 comments)

"He is the kind of boy who is bound to be rather a problem in any school or community, being in some respects definitely anti-social." Alan Turing's school reports.
posted to MetaFilter by verstegan at 3:23 AM on March 22, 2012 (34 comments)

how can you tell if a sort of shy guy is into you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by happyjuice at 10:18 PM on March 18, 2012 (30 comments)

Women in the bondage and kink scene are speaking out about sexual assaults in the community, and calling for change. Kitty Stryker, KinkyLittleGirl, Perverted Negress, and Maggie Mayhem share their experiences

A Field Guide to Creepy Dom (All links as likely as not to be NSFW)

posted to MetaFilter by Blasdelb at 10:34 PM on March 21, 2012 (71 comments)

My department chair thinks I dress too nicely for academia. Is this solid career advice, or is he just being a curmudgeon?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ootandaboot at 7:38 AM on March 21, 2012 (79 comments)

Recommend cheap (or cheapish), high-quality colognes from around the world.
posted to Ask Metafilter by GlassHeart at 8:08 AM on March 21, 2012 (4 comments)

I'd like to get a chef's knife for my wife, as she has recently developed an interest in cooking. The thing is, she has pretty bad arthritis and needs a knife that would be easy to hold, something with a largish handle. Any suggestions as to brand would be great. Also I should mention we are looking for a decent quality carbon steel type knife.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WASP-12b at 9:25 AM on March 21, 2012 (21 comments)

Can anyone please explain to me how to enter the highway without mentally writing my last will and testament? It terrifies me and I feel I endanger other people, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Tarumba at 11:58 AM on March 21, 2012 (33 comments)

How do I maintain a relationship with my nephews and niece when I live far away from them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by McPuppington the Third at 7:48 PM on March 21, 2012 (17 comments)

I've ruined my All-Clad non-stick frying pans. Help me find some new ones that I can't hurt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Leezie at 6:21 PM on March 21, 2012 (29 comments)

My wife is struggling with stress levels at work. How can I help her reduce them without patronising her, and at the same time stop being so selfish when dealing with her stress?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 6:53 PM on March 21, 2012 (8 comments)

What are the top five awesome websites you've found in the last year?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rudhraigh at 7:39 AM on March 14, 2012 (24 comments)

Enemies, A Love Story, an oral history of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert that first appeared in the premiere issue of The Chicagoan, has been published today as an eBook single by Now and Then Reader. Slate has a lengthy free excerpt, which includes an amusing anecdotal report that the two men began every taping with a game of patty cake. Writer Josh Schollmeyer, executive editor of Playboy, based the 25,000-word article on interviews with 36 participants and observers of the two men who "essentially invented televised film criticism." (Via)
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 2:43 PM on March 21, 2012 (29 comments)

I have a 2002-era problem: a big library of Mp3s, many ripped from physical CDs I own, some downloaded from iTunes, others left over from when I merged music collections with my then partner. They are completely disorganised. Some albums are incomplete, most lack album art, hundreds of individual songs are just kicking around in a big folder of their own. What's the best way to tame the mess? (This question has been asked before, but I imagine best solutions have changed since 2008).
posted to Ask Metafilter by embrangled at 5:16 AM on March 21, 2012 (32 comments)