Iconic photo of Gordon by famed jazz photographer Herman Leonard
Dexter Gordon was born 100 years ago today: oulipian posts in appreciation of the 6′6″ jazz saxophonist, band leader, and Academy Award winner popularly known as "Long Tall Dexter" and the "Sophisticated Giant".
Health Insurance by EpicTop10.com (cc by)
US healthcare: terminology, appealing denial, and Medicaid eligibility — brainwane has assembled a great current resource on Medicaid ... including info on a pending / upcoming requirement for paperwork you may want to prepare for if you are among the affected.
Image via Aeon Magazine
"For more than 200 years, children have been neglected by archaeologists. It was part of a disciplinary bias towards adult men in archaeological interpretations. This began to change in the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of feminist archaeology and the archaeology of gender..." cgc373 posted Aeon Magazine's article by April Nowell.
Fire dancing by Scrap Pile (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter: "It's one or three or ten centuries ago. Somebody's ancestors gather around a fire and pretty soon, spontaneous music breaks out, a few people start dancing, everybody winds up happy and breathless. But what I need to know is, if the songs aren't from the US, Canada, the UK or Ireland, or from Western Europe, what does the music sound like? I'm making a YouTube Music playlist to write a fun cozy fantasy novel to and I need help finding instrumental music from different traditions."
Wintersweet asks about antique party tunes outside the Anglosphere / Western Europe.
"We probably don't go around thinking of Agatha Christie as leaving a 'residue of horror' except that is one of its pleasures, isn't it? These people live in a world even more dangerous than our own--piles of strychnine, whole truckloads of it, just lying about, waiting for you to slight the wrong person and wind up dead."
Mittens has a great comment about crime fiction, crime writing, and crime writers in the Agatha Christie thread.
Amazon milk frog by hehaden (cc by-nc)
blue_beetle posted the Zoomable Tree of Life: All known species in one zoomable fractal.
image via Book Riot
Metafilter members are discussing BookRiot.com's list of 20 genre-defying sci-fi books that broke the mold.
steampunk timemachine by damian.eastwood (cc by)
"I want to make a list of films that evoke a strong sense of time (and possibly place). Through dialogue, sets, etc. they transport you to the era in which they're set." In Ask Metafilter, jdroth asks, What movies act as time capsules?
In Metatalk, the podcast has its 16th anniversary (and all episodes now have transcripts!), and Fizz posts an open gaming thread.
🎉 Woo! New Mod! "Hello Everyone! Please join me welcoming our newly-hired Moderator: Brandon Blatcher!"
Please help me satiate my love for crows: "I am looking for all sorts of information pertaining to those lovable but oft-maligned creatures we call crows. Do you have a fascination for crows? Maybe you can help."
Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash
spamandkimchi posted How to Play "Diagram Critique Bingo" by Abby Covert.
In honor of Superb Owl Sunday, this gem from the past: Wordshore vs The Owl.
Metafilter podcast 191: Thoroughly insinuated into the normalcy of our life is up!
Please Tell Me about Pre-internet Personals Ads: "I've always been fascinated by the personal ads of the pre-internet times and I bet there are people here on Metafilter who could tell me more about what the practical experience of using them was actually like..."
MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.
