Apple picking filter: What are some delicious and healthy recipes that use apples?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rudy Gerner at 12:36 PM on September 23, 2008 (18 comments)

How do I best learn German without attending a school?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vansly at 1:43 PM on September 22, 2008 (15 comments)

Who designed this Jesus-y font that I see all over Christian printed material and churches? What is its significance? Its history?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lieber Frau at 10:35 AM on September 18, 2008 (16 comments)

Good modern philosophy - where is it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by heylight at 8:43 AM on September 10, 2008 (32 comments)

I need a name for my X-files themed blog.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Secretariat at 12:25 PM on April 20, 2008 (31 comments)

I'm bored and ignorant. So are you. Let's learn something. There's a plethora of free open "courseware", books, and audio lectures on the internet. And IRC channels where we could "meet". And surplus of smart people here. Let's set up a "course" and take it together.
posted to MetaTalk by orthogonality at 3:50 AM on August 25, 2007 (123 comments)

I've been steaming a lot of veggies lately, much quicker than cooking them. I usually top them with tomato sauce/mozzarella and some spices. I'm getting kinda sick of tomato sauce, what are some alternative toppings?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by parallax7d at 3:07 PM on May 7, 2007 (44 comments)

Anyone have experience with virtual assistants or remote assistants?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by AceRock at 10:20 AM on May 2, 2007 (2 comments)

How can I get in shape for backpacking when I don't have time to backpack?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ilyanassa at 12:48 PM on April 30, 2007 (15 comments)

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are all online for you to peruse. The library consists of around 180 full text PDFs by a wide variety of authors -- Christine Korsgaard, Antonin Scalia, Jared Diamond, John Rawls, Richard Dawkins, Frans de Waal E.O. Wilson, Francis Fukuyama and the previously mentioned Elaine Scarry among them. Lots of interesting reading to be... read. Navigation is to the left. The collection is sorted alphabetically by author.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 2:57 PM on April 25, 2007 (12 comments)

I'm starting a new job soon. What are some good habits to incorporate from day one?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sfkiddo at 12:53 PM on April 9, 2007 (27 comments)

I am interested in building my own furniture. How do I get started?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by amsterdam63 at 9:56 PM on April 9, 2007 (14 comments)

Sometimes I hear loud screaming inside my head when I am falling asleep.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by willy_dilly at 10:30 PM on April 1, 2007 (59 comments)

Where can I find more podcasts like the TED talks?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by alby at 1:54 AM on March 18, 2007 (19 comments)

How AskMe made me stop worrying and learn to love food poisoning.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:52 PM on March 16, 2007 (92 comments)

I prefer to do my fairly intense 20 min. workout first thing in the morning before I eat...else I never get it done. If I eat, then I have to wait before working out, then I get distracted, start drinking caffeine, etc. Working out in the evening doesn't really work. I work evenings and my family and I have dinner together before I leave for work. Before dinner, I'm busy doing activities with my children (my wife and I homeschool). My question is this: Is it OK to workout (lift weights, run sprints) before I eat? If I must eat first, how long must I wait before working out? How soon after taking caffeine can I workout?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by keith0718 at 2:04 AM on March 15, 2007 (29 comments)

In preparation for St. Patrick's Day: Name the best Irish drinking songs, including the best versions. And go ahead and throw the Pogues in, because I know you can't help yourself -- what's their best song about drinking?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 8:02 AM on March 14, 2007 (55 comments)

Lately I've been reading quite a bit about Mormons, and I find the history of the church of the LDS completely compelling. I was wondering if there are any liberal/progressive Mormons who could help me better understand how the history of the church and the historical representation of their founder, Joseph Smith, can be squared with the modern church.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by billysumday at 7:36 AM on March 7, 2007 (49 comments)

The premise of Marvel Comic's Civil War storyline is that after a hero-related disaster, the government decides to force all superheroes to register, causing a split in the hero community. While heroes debate and decide which side to join, fans debate whether or not the cross-over series is actually any good. Clearly, Christopher Bird falls squarely on one side and has attempted to "improve" the story by starting a project to edit the dialogue of the series. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 6:21 AM on February 9, 2007 (53 comments)

Speculative Grammarian is the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics. Don't miss: Re-Rating the World's Languages, Hunting the Elusive Labio-Nasal, The Endangered Languages Armamentation Programme, New speech disorder linguists contracted discovered! and of course Choose Your Own Career in Linguistics.
posted to MetaFilter by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:31 AM on March 7, 2007 (17 comments)

I've paid off all my credit cards.... now what?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by weiler63 at 2:11 AM on March 7, 2007 (22 comments)

What are your ideas for easy camping recipes?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ClanvidHorse at 8:23 AM on March 4, 2007 (26 comments)

Looking for furious angels.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Skyanth at 2:21 AM on March 2, 2007 (21 comments)

Travel anxiety. I've been travelling for a week or so now, and I thought I wanted to be here. Now that I am though, all I can think about is the number of days till I go home.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by aeighty at 11:25 PM on February 27, 2007 (15 comments)

What's the perfect song to play on the radio, first thing in the morning, New Year's Day?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jbickers at 4:49 PM on December 31, 2006 (42 comments)

MeFites: Share with me your favorite math tricks, truisms and formulas that clarified and simplified math problems and made life easier in high school and college.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dropkick at 9:01 AM on February 24, 2007 (59 comments)

[Handicap/Mobility Impairment Filter] What are some of the most irritating, or seriously restrictive access/mobility problems faced by people with motion disabilities/impairment due to injury, or disability on a daily basis? This is sort of a non-profit version of this recent AskMe.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KevCed at 9:18 AM on February 15, 2007 (13 comments)

1812OvertureFilter: I need epic music.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lockeownzj00 at 3:40 PM on December 17, 2006 (46 comments)

Examples of poor customer service/angry customers in movies.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cosmicbandito at 6:39 AM on November 9, 2006 (48 comments)

Kant. Modern thought begins with Kant yet his work is dense and hard to understand. Perhaps this set of lectures, some 12 hours in total from the University of Glasgow will help. Titled 'Kant's Epistemology' they cover most of the subject matter of the Critique of Pure Reason - an extremely ambitious task. They are free and appear to be available only for a limited period. Perhaps worth downloading now - to savour when you have an few idle years.
posted to MetaFilter by grahamwell at 10:13 AM on November 14, 2006 (91 comments)

What are the "tricks of the trade" when it comes to getting the cheapest airfare possible?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mi6op at 9:34 PM on November 1, 2006 (9 comments)

OK, I've got MAME installed, and a (pretty much) complete (15Gb) set of ROMs. I've played my old favorites... Galaxian, Galaga, Gauntlet, Sonic, Mario... but now I'm daunted by the thousands of games I have to choose from. So what should I play next? (assume if I don't have the ROM I can get it)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by unSane at 6:35 AM on October 25, 2006 (34 comments)

Neuroscience Gateway - "a comprehensive source for the latest research, news and events in neuroscience and genomics research"
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan at 4:27 PM on October 2, 2006 (6 comments)

Online videos of philosophical lectures. Chomsky, Pinker, Dennet, Hofstadter, Searle, the Churchlands...
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:07 PM on August 31, 2006 (7 comments)

Long .pdf paper on the state of mainstream "analytic" philosophy. In a recent thread, we discussed the current state of philosophy departments in English-speaking countries. Philosophers are often asked why we don't take Ayn Rand seriously as a philosopher, or why we aren't up on literary Theory or deconstruction, etc. The short answer is that most academic philosophers in universities in the English-speaking world are engaged in a broad consensus (about how to do philosophy, what counts as a good question, etc) that's called "analytic philosophy" for short. Here is a long, informative encyclopedia entry by Scott Soames describing the history and current state of play in analytic philosophy. If you want to understand the background of the currently dominant school of philosophy in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, this will explain it. Link goes directly to a 44-page .pdf file.

Here are a few bonus bits: Jerry Fodor on Why no one reads analytic philosophy. One of the Philosophy talk podcasts from the Stanford philosophy department, on The Future of Philosophy. Some answers at askphilosophers.org -- a site where you can ask questions directly of professional philosophers -- that say the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy should be retired. (In a way, I agree, but the terms are used so widely that it's useful to get a sense of what they're meant to describe.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on what different philosophers have meant by "analysis".
posted to MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 2:33 PM on August 24, 2006 (56 comments)