What I read today April 12

• An Artist Reveals a Brownstone Time Capsule With an Extravaganza of Detail in Prospect Heights, Brownstoner
• Unsubscribing from the Culture of Busyness, No Sidebar
• Meet the woman who painted in a one-room shack and became a national treasure, Timeline
• We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability, Harvard Business Review
• Why Googling “Miami Inmates” in South Florida Leads to Their Poetry, hyperallergic
• What ‘White’ Food Meant to a First-Generation Kid, NY Times
• Peruse 1,000-Year-Old Medical Remedies, from Ox Bile to Mandrake Root, hyperallergic
• DeVos Undoes Obama Student Loan Protections, Bloomberg
  Squeeze 'em dry!