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In a 2001 University of Houston study of 153 survivors of nearly lethal attempts between the ages of 13 and 34, only 13 percent reported having contemplated their act for eight hours or longer. To the contrary, 70 percent set the interval between deciding to kill themselves and acting at less than an hour, including an astonishing 24 percent who pegged the interval at less than five minutes.
A surprising
article about the nature, methods, and deterrence of suicide.
posted to MetaFilter by Who_Am_I
at 11:41 AM on July 7, 2008
(65 comments)
What are some exceptionally well-performed audiobooks?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur
at 1:24 PM on July 7, 2008
(66 comments)
I was a high school dropout and didn't go to college, and now I'm trying to catch up, working towards a degree in a science/health field. This semester I'm taking Chemistry (an introductory level class) and Anatomy and Physiology. I'm doing OK in my classes, but certain concepts are coming pretty slowly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by serazin
at 9:42 AM on February 9, 2007
(13 comments)
Why do bacteria and viruses make us sick?
posted to Ask Metafilter by serazin
at 6:35 PM on November 10, 2007
(30 comments)
How do I choose a great chef's knife? Feeling overwhelmed by all the choices.
posted to Ask Metafilter by supramarginal
at 6:02 PM on June 12, 2008
(43 comments)
Justly Married
Derek Powazek shares a series of images of same-gender couples who were married in San Francisco over the last week, and sells one stark image in poster form to raise funds for
DontAmend.com, an organization committed to fighting the radical right's efforts to add an anti-gay marriage/union amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
posted to MetaFilter by Dreama
at 12:09 PM on February 20, 2004
(309 comments)
Reading/poetry to say goodbye to a dog?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Liosliath
at 9:41 AM on May 29, 2008
(17 comments)
What are your favorite tofu recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barrakuda
at 2:14 PM on May 27, 2008
(31 comments)
How can I do a stroll in theater outside in my yard on the cheap this summer? I want to have a movie for friends and neighbors in my yard this year. I can't afford a projector. Can I rent??
posted to Ask Metafilter by beccaj
at 5:51 PM on May 25, 2008
(13 comments)
Off to Big Bend, would like some advice from those who have been there before.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sanka
at 6:24 AM on May 21, 2008
(11 comments)
While culling my clippings file for the big move, I came across
Ragtime: No Longer a Novelty in Sepia, which led me to the
The Rag-Time Ephemeralist, a labor of love by one
Chris Ware , whose
'The Acme Novelty Library' and
Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Boy In The World I had long admired. The Ragtime Ephemeralist's mention of
Out of Sight - The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895---here's a
review from
Musical Traditions--and, its very own
links page, as a consequence, led to this post about Ragtime, Cakewalks, Coon Songs and Vaudeville, with a slight nod to Barbershop Quartets. There's more, of course...
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 11:41 AM on January 21, 2005
(27 comments)
Classical Music Filter: Can anyone recommend pieces of classical piano music in a similar style to the
Sonatica by Bear McCreary from Battlestar Galactica? I have some Olivier Messiaen stuff in a similar vein but would love more in the same mellow, slightly offkilter and whistful piano style. Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by merocet
at 12:28 PM on May 8, 2008
(19 comments)
In 1974 - or 1976, depending who you ask -
Armistead Maupin began writing "an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco” in the form of a serialized, fictional drama published originally in the Pacific Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, originally called
"The Serial" which then became collectively known as
Tales of The City.
It is a suprisingly beautiful, deep, emotional, cosmopolitan and
lasting tale about life in San Francisco in the turbulent, heady days of the 1970s and 1980s.
Widely credited with and cherished for helping spread a little of the openess, tolerance and acceptance that San Francisco is now famous for. It then became a series of books -
Tales of the City,
More Tales of the City,
Further Tales of the City,
Babycakes,
Significant Others,
Sure of You - and lastly, the spin-off tale of
Michael Tolliver Lives. Almost exactly twenty years after first publishing, it then became
an excellent miniseries from the United Kingdom's Channel 4, which
aired in the United States on PBS, but not without
protest or limitations.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 1:20 AM on May 4, 2008
(39 comments)
What is the first question people ask when you tell them what you do? Are there common misconceptions or generalizations that people make? How do you tactfully and/or humorously correct them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam
at 9:02 AM on April 28, 2008
(152 comments)
How do you un-stick a stuck window? We've tried most of the obvious things, and now don't know what to do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by meghanmiller
at 2:43 PM on April 9, 2008
(12 comments)
I'm going to Yellowstone in May , traveling from Austin TX via New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming then back through Kansas and Oklhoma. I would really appreciate recomendations for any cool places to stop along the way. Cool museums, cheap flea markets, places to buy cool jewelry, cool parks, places to camp, vegetarian resteraunts etc. And also the best places to stay in Yellowstone as thAT's where we'll be spending most of our time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by madmamasmith
at 10:26 PM on April 5, 2008
(19 comments)
Mom's FINALLY decided she'll get a computer. I'm gonna help, so it'll be a MacBook. I know there's been a lot already here on this topic, but...
posted to Ask Metafilter by dpcoffin
at 12:12 PM on April 5, 2008
(23 comments)
Granola me! How can I make really really tasty granola? What granola recipes do you love love love? Where the hell can I find brown rice syrup in Chicago?
posted to Ask Metafilter by santojulieta
at 8:06 AM on April 4, 2008
(21 comments)
I've been thinking a lot about buying a property and renting it out. I have a good grasp on a lot of the essentials, but I was hoping for some input from hive mind as to what I should be prepared for, what I should have ready, and how best to handle being a landlord.
posted to Ask Metafilter by smitt
at 11:25 AM on March 26, 2008
(22 comments)
We're drowning in quirk.
It is the ruling sensibility of today’s Gen-X indie culture, defined territorially by the gentle ministrations of public radio’s
This American Life; the strenuously odd (and now canceled) TV sitcom
Arrested Development; the movies of Wes Anderson; Dave Eggers’s
McSweeney’s Web site; the performance art, music, and writing of
Miranda July; and the just-too-wacky-to-be-fully-believable memoirs of
Augusten Burroughs. It’s been 20 years of beneficent, wide-eyed gazing upon the oddities of our fellow man.
David Byrne probably birthed contemporary quirk around 1985— halfway between his “Psycho Killer” beginnings with the
Talking Heads and his move to global pop—when he sang the song “Stay Up Late”: “Cute, cute, little baby / Little pee-pee, little toes.” (As it happens, Byrne appeared on July’s recent book tour.) Jon Cryer’s “Duckie” Dale in
Pretty in Pink came a year later, and quirk was on its way.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey
at 12:33 PM on September 5, 2007
(177 comments)
Colon Cleansing - Are the solutions advertised on TV and on the web a good idea? Are they harmful? Do doctors approve this kind of thing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by FLHunter3006
at 11:15 AM on March 18, 2008
(14 comments)
What exact characteristic(s) make someone appear polished and sophisticated?
posted to Ask Metafilter by amfea
at 4:01 PM on March 19, 2008
(29 comments)
In the (traditional Southern U.S.) song
"Dixie", what is meant by the lyric
"Look away" from the chorus
"Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land."
posted to Ask Metafilter by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj
at 11:12 AM on March 17, 2008
(12 comments)
I'm dealing with the fallout from coming out to my deeply religious immediate family. For years, I had prepared for their tears, their anger, their remonstrances, their appeals to the Bible, and all of those have come. What I hadn't prepared for was how disappointed I would be, and how fundamental and lonely that disappointment would be. Help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by grrarrgh00
at 9:22 PM on October 16, 2007
(38 comments)
What's the best way to ship a scooter from Ohio to Massachusetts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by o0dano0o
at 10:54 AM on March 4, 2008
(4 comments)
Just wanted to highlight
this post by
allkindsoftime (in case people miss it on the blue).
posted to MetaTalk by hadjiboy
at 3:38 AM on February 29, 2008
(57 comments)
Last summer, the Missoula MT city council deadlocked on the question of whether city folk should be allowed to keep "
urban chickens". (Missoula, pop. 57,000 is what passes for urban in Big Sky Country.) Reporter Ann Medley made a
wonderful video essay on the issue for
New West.
posted to MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll
at 10:19 AM on February 16, 2008
(24 comments)
The first drive-in movie theater was opened on June 6, 1933, by salesman Richard M. Hollingshead in Camden, N.J. On the bill was a twilight showing of the British comedy
Wife Beware. And so the drive-in era was born, peaking in 1958 with almost 5,000 theaters in the U.S alone. These days you'd be hard pressed trying to find one but thankfully there are plenty of
handy lists online telling you just where to find one (
there's even one for Aussies like me!). And that's not all we have to be thankful for;
the drive-in scene is apparently witnessing something of a "mini-revival" at present. Don't feel like going out? Then why not make your own? First
you'll need instructions on how to build one. Then you'll need intermission-advertisements (
you can download or even just watch heaps of them for free here). And then you'll need
a handy list of the kinds of films they used to show at the drive-in. If you're in the US, you'll need to know some of the
special rules the FCC has for drive-ins, and if you have any more questions, I'm sure the fine folk at the
United Drive-In Theater Owners Association could help. All of this sound like too much work? Then just sit back and check out the videos and photos on
this nice site (it's about drive-ins, of course!).
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000
at 4:04 AM on February 18, 2008
(43 comments)
Really loving the super-wide angle, minimalist photo compositions of
yosigo (Jose Javier) on Flickr. How does he do it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by junesix
at 1:47 PM on January 22, 2008
(17 comments)
Are there sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB for books?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dcrocha
at 7:02 PM on January 19, 2008
(11 comments)
Please suggest resources for dealing with the loss of a loved one – how to cope with grief. When you moved to the area just before it happened, you’re now all alone, and don’t have friends established, or anyone to talk to - it’s hard to cope with the enormous bills, the life change and deep emptiness. You go to work and pretend all is fine, but it’s not.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 2:17 PM on January 17, 2008
(8 comments)
Travel recommendation: short, authentic stay in Mexico?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgs
at 2:04 PM on January 17, 2008
(17 comments)
Where can I learn about music history and music theory for free?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Chris4d
at 10:00 PM on January 16, 2008
(26 comments)
Where can a woman buy nice t-shirts to wear under sweaters and other tops?
posted to Ask Metafilter by iguanapolitico
at 1:10 PM on January 11, 2008
(32 comments)
