MetaFilter

Not your typical plate of beans [SLYT]
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 10:27 PM PST - 41 comments

Taking Out Trash That Was Someone Else’s Treasure [SLNYT] “The majority of hoarders have lived in the same place for decades, in some cases their whole lives. For the most part they’re very smart, successful, well traveled, with degrees from elite universities. No one knows what they’re like at home, and in some cases alcohol plays a major role.” [more inside]
posted by bendy at 6:47 PM PST - 31 comments

How many apples? [via mefi projects] [more inside]
posted by aniola at 5:03 PM PST - 34 comments

University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Extension educator and fair judge John Porter gives tips on entering horticultural competitions, including why correct preparation matters with links to pdf guides on how to harvest and prepare vegetables/fruits and flowers, e.g. "leave a ¼ inch piece of stem on cucumbers." Porter also plugs UNL's television show Backyard Farmer which first aired in 1952 in black and white (Youtube channel, Apple Podcast).
posted by spamandkimchi at 4:32 PM PST - 1 comments

Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 [NYT] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 12:59 PM PST - 18 comments

Rebecca Giggs (Emergence Magazine, 06/27/2022), "Noiseless Messengers": "THE MOTHS, when they came, were said to appear first like sea fog massing above the ocean." ABC News - Australia (12/11/2022), "Why bogong moths are now being classified as an endangered species." ABC Indigenous (07/04/2019), "This Place: The Journey of the Bogong Moths." Birgitta Stephenson, et al., (2020), "2000 Year-old Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) Aboriginal food remains, Australia." Eric Warrant, et al., (2016), "The Australian Bogong Moth Agrotis infusa: A Long-Distance Nocturnal Navigator." David Dreyer, et al. (2018), "The Earth's Magnetic Field and Visual Landmarks Steer Migratory Flight Behavior in the Nocturnal Australian Bogong Moth." Ken Green, et al. (2021), "Australian Bogong moths Agrotis infusa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), 1951–2020: decline and crash" [PDF].
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:53 AM PST - 3 comments

How the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid Became a Memphis Icon
posted by box at 10:46 AM PST - 34 comments

A therapist and a filmmaker examine narcissism via The LEGO® Batman Movie. [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 10:04 AM PST - 3 comments

At last! After a weird series of issues finding a streaming home that resulted in it almost being a VRV exclusive before they backed out (they're still listed as its home on the show's website), Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space will be airing as a Netflix series on September 6, 2022. Here's the trailer. it seems to also include remakes of the original episodes with updated animation! Previously: 2013, 2014, 2018, Fanfare
posted by JHarris at 9:04 AM PST - 14 comments

Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Many former FBI officials hold influential roles within Twitter. For instance, in 2020, Matthew W. left a 15-year career as an intelligence program manager at the FBI to take up the post of senior director of product trust at Twitter. [more inside]
posted by sammyo at 8:04 AM PST - 29 comments