• Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture, Scientific American
• With Clock Ticking, East New York Negotiations to Heat Up, Gotham Gazette
• Lose Yourself in this Atlas of the World's Lost Cities, Atlas Obscura
• Our Natural History, Endangered, The New York Times
• Costco gets creative to meet shoppers’ huge appetite for organics, Seattle Times
• A Massive Aquaponic Lettuce And Fish Farm Will Grow In A Brooklyn Warehouse, Fast Co Exist
• The World May Have Too Much Food, Bloomberg
• The little loophole helping developers build their supertall towers even higher, Crain's New York
• Letter of Recommendation: Segmented Sleep, New York Times

• Spotlight: Gotham Greens Talks Rooftop Farming Against the New York Skyline, 6 sqft
• Coming soon to Instagram: Square milkshakes from Sonic, Digiday
• BuzzFeed targets DIY with Nifty, a platform-focused video brand, Digiday
• Who Made That Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket?, New York Times Magazine
• Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?, Vulture
• A $700 Juicer for the Kitchen That Caught Silicon Valley’s Eye, New York Times
• This $700 WiFi “juicer” is everything wrong with food today, The Washington Post
• Balcony Seats to the City, Curbed
  Lovely

• The Westerfeld House: San Francisco's Most Storied Victorian, Curbed
• The controversial reason tens of thousands of people just lost their food stamps, Washington Post
• How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes, ProPublica

• Young People Explain Why They Ditched the City for the Country, Vice
• This Women's Clothing Brand Is Made For Professional Women Who Hate To Shop, Fast Company
• Beyond Talk: Searching For Real Solutions to Food Appropriation, Civil Eats
• New York just passed the nation's most radical paid family leave policy, Mashable
• We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online, Slate
• Wary of Gentrification, East Harlem Braces for Rapid Change, Gotham Gazette

• Soon-to-Retire Brooklyn Assemblywoman Backs CB Chair as Successor: Reports, DNAinfo
• An historic seed bank, running out of time, The New Food Economy

• Gourmet Sandwich Shop Joins Slew of New Businesses Along Malcolm X Blvd., DNAinfo
• Israel's Record Shop Closing After 20 Years on Fulton Street, Owner Says, DNAinfo
• Michigan woman relinquishes Dr. Pepper Twitter handle in exchange for water donation, DigiDay
• A day in the life of a young black male engineering "coding" student., Storify
• My Mother’s Garden, New York Times
• How Corporate Agribusiness Is Quietly Seizing The Heartland with ‘Right To Farm’ Laws, Think Progress
• 'Queen of the curve' Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 from heart attack, The Guardian
• From Redlining to Predatory Lending: A Secret Economic History of Brooklyn, Brownstoner

• Algorithm-pocalyse: Bloggers beg users to ‘turn on post notifications’ on Instagram, DigiDay
• Slack isn't catching on at ad agencies -- and it's clients' fault, DigiDay
• A Burgeoning Effort to Restore Native Foods in an Unlikely Food Desert, Civil Eats
• How Community Gardens Are Revitalizing Cities, Organic Life
• 3 Women Who Are Changing The Face Of City Gardens, Organic Life
• Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses, Harvard Business Review
• New Views and Renderings of Eliot Spitzer’s ODA-Designed Williamsburg Mega-Development, 6 sq ft
• America's Young Farmers: We Want Student Loan Relief, Fast Company
• 'The Eloise from Hell': The Little Old Lady Who Terrorized New York's Famed Plaza Hotel, Vice

• Ikea's Newest Product Introduces Hydroponics To Mainstream America, Fast Co. Design
• How the ‘Dirt Cure’ Can Make for Healthier Families, NY Times
• Shade plants: Gardening in the dark, Chicago Tribune
• People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity, Science Magazine
• How To Be an Unprofessional Artist, Momus
• BECOMING A DESIGNER WHO CODES: THE MAKING OF A UNICORN, InVision Blog
  I sometimes forget how much some people love tech.
• The Irish Rebellion That Resonated in Harlem, The New Republic
• This Comedian Just Obliterated All Stereotypes About Millennials in One Presentation, Mic
• The Modern Architecture of Columbus, Indiana, Through the Eye of a Local Lensman, Curbed
• The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors, Fast Co Design
• Graphic Stamps – a new history, Creative Review
• This is What Happens When You Rip Off a Designer, Eye on Design
  Misleading title since it end with a "boy, wasn't THAT sad" with no real solutions. 

• Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work, Harvard Business Review
  Feels like it
• Home Prices in Popular Brooklyn Areas Expected to Dip this Year, DNAinfo
• The Food Industrial Complex, Pricenomics
• New York's First Female Crime Boss Started Her Own Crime School, Atlas Obscura
• Meet Sedgewick the Monarch Caterpillar—and find out what you can do to save his species, Boing Boing
• A Mailman Handcuffed in Brooklyn, Caught on Video, New York Times
  Incredibly sad...
• Grit and grace: Female Farmer Project reinvents traditional image of farming, Seattle Times

• The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate, New York Times
• Wheat's Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans For Centuries, Atlas Obscura
• When Going Out Without a Hat Was Grounds for Scandal, Atlas Obscura
• Want to Start a New American Farmstead? There’s a School for That., Civil Eats
• Agricultural Aftershocks: How Japan is Combatting a Decline in Farming, Modern Farmer
• Expanded NYC Ferry Service Is Officially A Go. But Where to?, Untapped Cities
• Developers Are "Very, Very Excited To Pioneer" New Neighborhoods Under De Blasio's Affordable Housing Plan, Gothamist
• New York Passes Rent Rules to Blunt Gentrification, New York Times
• Why Target Is Fast-Tracking Food Innovation, Fast Company
• Starbucks is donating all of its unsold food to charity, Tech Insider
• 190 Bowery's Graffiti-Covered Facade Is Getting Some Changes, Curbed
• How Hotels Are Capitalizing on Women's Fears of Traveling Alone, Broadly
  One of these days, we're going to start teaching men to stop preying on women.

• City Council votes to approve mandatory inclusionary housing, The Real Deal
• NBC’s coverage of the Brussels attack was stunningly irresponsible, Salon

• The Ruins at the Hotel le Vergeur, Atlas Obscura
• Legalize It All, Harpers Magazine
• Vice CEO Shane Smith on dealing with agencies: ‘We want to make great shit but it's a war.’, DigiDay
• How We Made Our Client’s Site Accessible by Law, UX Movement
• New iPhones, for the Small of Hands, The Atlantic
• Has Azealia Banks Trolled Her Way Out of a Career?, Vulture
• Why Girls Hump Pillows and Stuffed Animals, Broadly
• These Attacks Happened Days Before Brussels — But You Probably Didn't Hear About Them, Mic
• As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops, New York Times
• Disobedient, Rule-Breaking Kids Might End Up Earning More, Study Says, Mic
• A DRIVE FOR DIGITAL AND CONSTANT LEARNING WITH DANI ROCHE, Design Sponge

• What Instagram’s New Algorithm Feed Means For You, Latergramme
• I’m Asking Men To Pay Me $5,000 To Read Jonathan Franzen, The Establishment
• Seeking Access to Facebook in China, Zuckerberg Courts Risks, New York Times
• The Voluminous Shell Heaps Hidden in Plain Sight All Over NYC, Atlas Obscura
• How Maple Built An Insanely Efficient, Chipotle-Crushing Food Delivery Machine, Fast Company
• Kimbal Musk is Changing the Food System One School Garden at a Time, Civil Eats
• Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco, The Guardian
• On their own roots, Unconventional Stories from a Young Apple Farmer

Neat!

• Uncovered Classics

• Principal Clamps Down on 5th Grader Handing Out Opt-Out Fliers, Parents Say, DNAinfo
• Happy Anniversary of Getting Fired to Me, Medium
  A little over one year for me and while I don't think I am where I want to be, I am so glad that I'm not there anymore. I've learned way more about myself and the world and the things that matter to me since then.
• Dropbox Shares Offered At 34% Discount In Secondary Market, Buzzfeed
• Bushwick artist to other Bushwick artists who hate his new Bushwick art festival: ‘Whatever’, Brooklyn Paper
• From Seed Drills to Cyborgs, Edible Geography
• I Would Like to Buy a Drink for the Poor Soul Who Ran the San Francisco BART Twitter Account Last Night, Gizmodo
• How gentrification really changes a neighborhood, Atlanta Magazine
• Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup, Brain Pickings
  Been having a bit of trouble with a friend of mine. She's such a lovely person yet has no regard for other people's time and always is quick with an excuse. It started off with making plans and then her backing out of it with excuses like "need to do laundry" and "don't feel like putting pants on." It has evolved to making plans and her either not showing up or being over an hour late. I recognize some people will be a little late, and I understand, but over an hour of waiting is wearing on me...
• Meet the Amazonian Terminators of Dahomey, the Most Feared Women in History, Messy Nessy Chic
• When they Dug up Paris, Messy Nessy Chic
• The Hoaxster Who Revealed Sad Truths About America, Pricenomics
• The Secrets of Chicken Flocks’ Pecking Order, Modern Farmer
• Why the Poor Get Trapped in Depressed Areas, The New Republic
  I once had a conversation that was spurred by something I don't remember about the poor in NYC. She felt that the poor ought to move to places where the cost of living wasn't so much so they could get good-paying jobs and decrease government programming. I felt that was silly for how would the poor get to "better places" if they didn't have much money to begin with and if they did get there, the job market probably wouldn't be as robust as New York and the new city would still need to figure out how to support them through government programming. Not to mention the fact that if all the poor left New York, who would do the jobs you don't want to do like housekeeping (taskrabbit) or driving (uber) or food delivery (seamless) and your job that depends on this type of labor.
• Working-Class Whites Have Moral Responsibilities -- In Defense of Kevin Williamson, The National Review
• America, the Unaffordable, The Nation via Paula
• People are being shut out of America’s Weed Boom: Whitewashing the Green Rush, Buzzfeed News
• How Urban Parks Are Bringing Nature Close to Home, National Geographic
• A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany, Wired
• Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist, New York Times
• Fowl Play: How to Engage Chickens When They Have to be Cooped Up, Modern Farmer

• An Easy Way to Give East New York a New Subway Stop, Urban Omnibus
• Here are the winners and losers of an Instagram algorithm, DigiDay
  I fear Instagram's algorithm will also have a negative effect on non-profits. When Facebook, relaunched their's when we were working to get the garden started, suddenly, our content was so hard to find since we weren't paying for exposure nor something "sexy."
• Why Republicans at ad agencies keep a low profile, DigiDay

• Your birth month dramatically affects how likely you are to be diagnosed with ADHD, Quartz
• Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm, New York Times
  There goes the neighborhood. Changing feeds to algorithms helps the companies to be more visible. I rather just like to know what my friends are up to.
• Americans bought more legal pot than Girl Scout cookies in 2015, Quartz

• Kenny Scharf, Kaleidoscope
• Behind the Scenes Tour of the Staten Island Farm Colony with NYCEDC, Untapped Cities
• Bobbi Brown blends online and offline to boost makeup sales, Digiday
• To raise awareness, Honey Nut Cheerios drops the bee, Digiday
• Classrooms without Walls: A Forgotten Age of Open-air Schools, Messy Nessy Chic
• Meet the Flying Cholitas, the Women who Wrestle in their Petticoats, Messy Nessy Chic
• The Greatest Girl Scout Cookie Salesperson Ever, Pricenomics

• Philadelphia's Trinity Houses are the Original Tiny Houses, Atlas Obscura
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The New Republic
• Why the Wingdings font exists, Vox
• Are Ohio Republicans Average or Angry?, The New Republic
  Ohioans are average and Ohio politics has always been about protecting the average.

• The White Witch of Los Angeles Wants You to Seek Truth, Broadly

• Bolaji Badejo: The Nigerian giant who played 'Alien', CNN

• New Logo for Atlas Obscura, The Brand New

• How Spy Magazine Skewered Its Favorite ’80s Poster Boy, Donald Trump, Eye on design

• This Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors, Bloomberg Business

• “As Time Goes By” Captures the Stark Reality of Aging, Slate

• Pretty in Pink: How a Color Came to Represent a Gender, Broadly

• The Surprising Resurgence of Side Saddle, Atlas Obscura
• Adiós, siesta? Spain considers ending Franco's change to working hours, The Guardian
• Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What's Next?, Fast Co Design
• Subspotting
  Not really an article. But a rad way to visualize the wifi service while riding the subway.
• Episode 1: Mouth to Ear, WNYC 
• Could Urban Farms Be the Preschools of the Future?, City Lab