https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:24:35 GMT Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:24:35 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Even then, it is only allowed under strict conditions, including if a woman's life is in danger or they have already had several children and another would impact their health.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212807/Court-finds-Japanese-sterilisation-law-lacks-rationality tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212807 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:24:35 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Contraception Japan ReproductiveHealthcare ReproductiveJustice SterilisationSurgery TubalLigation https://www.metafilter.com/212807/Court-finds-Japanese-sterilisation-law-lacks-rationality/rss Over the past 60,000 years or so, animals by the millions, including giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and ten-ton Columbian mammoths were stuck in the goo and died here—and were quickly preserved in exquisite detail by the same stuff that killed them. For scientists, the La Brea death trap matters because the animals entombed here, now mostly extinct, are remnants of a lost North America.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212805/The-La-Brea-Tar-Pits-Have-Been-Sucking-in-Visitors-for-Millennia tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212805 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:53:33 GMT ShooBoo fossils labrea paleontology tarpits https://www.metafilter.com/212805/The-La-Brea-Tar-Pits-Have-Been-Sucking-in-Visitors-for-Millennia/rss For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia. [...] These kinds of myths — the POW/MIA issue, the narrative I constructed around The Colonel's life — succeed because they reduce complicated issues and imperialist adventures into the stories of brave individuals. Focusing on the thousands of American servicemen who didn't make it back to their families is just another way of obfuscating the reasons for their absence.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212803/The-Vietnam-myth-that-gave-us-all-those-Rambo-movies tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212803 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:37:07 GMT AlSweigart imperialism rambo uspolitics vietnam war https://www.metafilter.com/212803/The-Vietnam-myth-that-gave-us-all-those-Rambo-movies/rss "Avoid the honk": Interactive map helps UW students stay away from Canada geese

Whether you call them "cobra chickens" or "majestic assholes," you gotta find the safest route to class because you can't hurt them because they're federally protected (in Canada). Wilfred Laurier University had a video go viral last week of a Canada goose trapped in a building, making it everyone else's problem.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212802/Waddleloo-knowing-my-fate-is-to-avoid-you tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212802 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:28:21 GMT Kitteh AnirudhDabas canadageeseavoidance universityofwaterloo waddleloo https://www.metafilter.com/212802/Waddleloo-knowing-my-fate-is-to-avoid-you/rss More than 110 new fish and invertebrate species are discovered during a CSIRO[1] voyage in the deep Coral Sea.

[1] Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212801/New-shark-species-discovered-in-unexplored-deep-sea-waters-off-Qld tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212801 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:40:58 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Catsharks CoralSea GhostSharks Rays Sharks Skates https://www.metafilter.com/212801/New-shark-species-discovered-in-unexplored-deep-sea-waters-off-Qld/rss TANG (2¾ minute Neil Cicierega, orangutans, 90s commercials)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212800/TANG tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212800 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:19:23 GMT JHarris 90s ads commercials NeilCicierega orangutans TANG https://www.metafilter.com/212800/TANG/rss "A whole civilization will die tonight" - US President Donald Trump threatens Iran with genocide if his demands are not met. It is Day 38 of the Iran War.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212799/Trump-Threatens-Genocide-in-Iran tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212799 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:32:53 GMT mrjohnmuller DonaldTrump Fascism Genocide Iran IranWar TrumpRegime USpolitics WarCrimes https://www.metafilter.com/212799/Trump-Threatens-Genocide-in-Iran/rss Transmission, as performed by Bob and Gene Belcher. (AKA H. Jon Benjamin and Eugene Mirman)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/212798/Burgerplay tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.212798 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:29:42 GMT FatherDagon Animation BobsBurgers JoyDivision Music Postpunk https://www.metafilter.com/212798/Burgerplay/rss