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Food Waste: The world's dumbest environmental problem. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb at 10:34 PM PST - 81 comments

Hildegard von Blingin' presents, for the discerning clergyman, noble, or muck-gathering peasant, Medieval Style covers of Pumped up Kicks, What is Love, and Bad Romance.
posted by CrunchyFrog at 10:19 PM PST - 20 comments

1985 was a ridiculously strong year for music releases. We missed May 20, 1985, when U2 released their EP Wide Awake In America. Featuring possibly the best recording of Bad ever, it was an enormous success, going Platinum in the US. Side A: Bad (Live), A Sort Of Homecoming (Live) [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 10:16 PM PST - 7 comments

You're quarantined, you want to recreate The Rocky Horror Picture Show's "The Time Warp" number, but you only have two people. So, maybe you do what Gelsey Laurie and her father did in April...
posted by the sobsister at 7:07 PM PST - 12 comments

"Binge Watching" is a sci-fi short film by Nigerian-British filmmaker Nosa Igbinedion which was recently screened on DUST (previously). "In the near future, a woman comes across a VR film where she will experience a tense encounter with a pair of policemen… through the eyes of a black man." (possible trigger warning as it depicts an assault from the victim's POV.) [more inside]
posted by homunculus at 3:52 PM PST - 4 comments

Röhrenblues Armin Küpper : Tenor Sax with acoustic pipeline delayed looping.
(via MLTSHP, where Armin's Pipelinefunk was posted.)
posted by scruss at 3:49 PM PST - 4 comments

From the Library of Congress: Footage of the first Gay Pride Parade in New York City in 1970.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:08 PM PST - 4 comments

A momentous event took place in Toba Aquarium on 26 May, when the keeper of the facility’s five giant isopods discovered fecal matter in their tank. This would be the first time since April of 2018 that even a trace of poop had been found. Notorious for their slow digestion, giant isopod eating habits can range from swiftly and viciously eating the face off a live shark, to not eating at all for five years. (Sometimes when their keepers try to feed them, the giant isopods will just play with their food and pretend to eat.) Some responses from Japanese citizens on hearing about the happy event: “This is the most relaxing news I’ve heard in months.” “Giant isopods make people happy by pooping. I want to be a giant isopod.” Giant isopods previously on Metafilter.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:18 PM PST - 30 comments

Smashed Peacock - Is it a play? A juggling act? Cabaret? A musical? Dance? A comment on gender or race? It's all of the above with a bit of opera. (sl vimeo | via progosk in an earlier thread)
posted by dobbs at 2:10 PM PST - 1 comments

How about some weird stop-motion animation: Human Flesh Story: Donuts
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:47 AM PST - 13 comments

Surprise! People love to recreate not only great and famous artworks, but also terrible amateur paintings. Remember the Getty Museum Challenge? Previously on MeFi. This one is even more hilarious! (Facebook group is private, but Sad & Useless Humor has a round up of outstanding accomplishments)
posted by pjsky at 11:35 AM PST - 8 comments

As China comes into greater conflict with the West, and the United States in particular, now is a good time to consider the long arc of this relationship. In the West, Chinese history is commonly framed as having begun with the first Opium War, giving the impression that European powers always had the upper hand. But from the first direct contact between East and West—the arrival of the Portuguese in south China in the early 16th century—the Chinese were dominant. When China Met the West by Michael Schuman, from his forthcoming book Superpower Interrupted
posted by chavenet at 10:09 AM PST - 3 comments

Issac Newton, Daniel Defoe and the Dynamics of Financial Bubbles. "A famous anecdote tells of Sir Isaac Newton realizing large gains in the early stages of the South Sea Bubble, but then losing all that and more by buying back in at the top. On the other hand, the fact that the author of Robinson Crusoe was also associated with that episode of extreme investor exuberance is little known. And that is a pity, since Daniel Defoe’s words, as well as Newton’s actions, are very illuminating about an important aspect of bubbles that deserves much more attention. This is the social network element..."
posted by storybored at 8:03 AM PST - 6 comments

Cop shows are undergoing a reckoning as the nation confronts policing in the streets. On TV, cops are always the main characters. [more inside]
posted by toastyk at 7:43 AM PST - 141 comments

Soundness is an Illusion, a musical summary of the many principal types of logical fallacies encountered in argument. From the same artist, songs concerning The Ultimate Source of Morality, and the hazarding of the journey from Mythos to Logos.
posted by bertran at 1:20 AM PST - 3 comments