What I read today - June 21
- Trump Lagged Far Behind Clinton in May Fundraising, Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Claims He Never Said Orlando Victims Should Have Been Armed — But He Did, Mic
- What to Know About the Supreme Court's Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt Abortion Case, Mic
- Donald Trump’s Secret ‘Public’ Gardens Gave Him Extra Height at Trump Tower, 6sqft
- How to Talk Your Friends and Loved Ones Out of Supporting Donald Trump, NY Mag
- The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories?, Atlas Obscura
- 'She Didn't Say Vagina': Sex Ed in Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool, Broadly
- Inside Facebook's Totally Adorable, Kind of Racist Mixed Race Baby Community, Broadly
- ‘Unloaded’ Minds Are the Most Creative, NY Mag
- How Townes Van Zandt’s “Lungs” veers from Platonic epistemology to magic realism, AV Club
One of Alex's self-professed "favorite songs ever"
What I read today - June 15
- Steiner files plans for Wegmans building at BK Navy Yard, The Real Deal
- Why More Illustrators are Embracing Motion Design + Taking GIFs Seriously, Eye on Design
- CityViews: City Giving Away Land With Little Public Discussion, City Limits
- Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants, Harvard Business Review
- 10 Extremely Precise Words for Emotions You Didn’t Even Know You Had, NY Mag
- A Biological Anthropologist Says That the Perfect First Date Is Pretty Simple, NY Mag
- The Sausage Index: Which Dating Apps Have the Most Dudes?, Pricenomics
- Sacramento pastor, amid backlash, defends sermon praising Orlando killings, LA Times
- The right response to Donald Trump? A media blackout., The Washington Post
- Here's How Straphangers Shut Down a Man Harassing 2 Muslim Women on Monday, DNAinfo
- Eastern U.S. needs ‘connectivity’ to help species escape climate change, UW Today
Misc
- Cinesift – A handy way to find great movies by platform
What I read today - June 14
- The Colorful Secret Of The Pea Aphid, NPR
The kids worked to find bugs and then locate them in my bug book Last night. This lead to a rabbit hole of wanting to keep the book updated when new bugs are discovered including the wasps last year and aphids which are currently infesting the plum and apple trees in the garden. - Prestigious Joffrey Ballet School Faces Bankruptcy After Ruthless Rent Hike, Curbed
- How Hangovers Helped Bring Us the Two-Day Weekend, NY Mag
- What If The Food Industry Ended Monoculture Farming?, Food + Tech Connect
- There are 2,000 empty restaurants during the day in New York — and this startup is trying to do something about it, Business Insider
I thought this article was going to be about restaurants creating a shared works space for aspiring chefs and cooks and food product entrepreneurs. - 2016 Food Awards, Southern Living
The packaging I created for True Ewe in Alabama won a Southern Living Award! - Citigroup closes on $1.8B buy of Tribeca HQ from SL Green, The Real Deal
- 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in New York City Food Policy (Class of 2016), NYC Food Policy Center
People I should google later to see what organizations they are in. A disappointing fact: They are all around my age... Feeling late to the party! - Cult Following, The New Republic
- Virgo and Scorpio
- The Tyranny of Taste, The New Republic
- The Ad Campaign that Convinced Americans to Pay for Water, Pricenomics
When I visit Ohio, I can never find seltzer. Perrier is a poor replacement and makes me feel like an asshole, but I want that fizz! - Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again, Pricenomics
- Brands are counseling the young and the traumatized through their #QuarterlifeCrisis, DigiDay
- How An 1918 Author Introduced the World to the Concept of Female Pleasure, Atlas Obscura
- Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History', Atlas Obscura
- How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws, Atlas Obscura
- Who’s Afraid of Occupy? The John Oliver Show Erases Debt Resistance, Debt Collective
- US to cut water monitoring because of Puerto Rico debt, The Washington Post
- The Forgotten Fetishwear Company of 1920s Paris, AnOther
I think I may be Upper Middle brow for my choice of avocado in my salad and solid non-fiction and "better novel" reading habits
What I read today - June 9
- We sold feminism to the masses, and now it means nothing, Quartz
- Top Chefs and Local Farmers in Spain Regenerate Their ‘Green Caviar’, NY Times
- John Kasich Signs Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill Into Law, Huffington Post
- Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds, The Ecologist
- This Is Everything We Get Wrong When We Talk About Weed, Mic
- Yet Another Oil Spill Near Native American Land Is Failing to Grab National Attention, Mic
- Bed & Bees (B&B) – Sleep With The Bees – Free Plans, Horizontal Hive
- Love your Chakras: Love & Sex from the Perspective of the Chakras, Elephant Journal
Alex once said our chakras aligned. I'm trying to learn how to talk to him. - City Council Approves Major Changes to NYC Landmarks Law, Curbed
- There is a major designer talent crunch at agencies, Digiday
- Google Has Learned a Thing or Two About the Way Men and Women Answer Interview Questions, NY Mag
What I read today - June 8
- The First Woman to Drive Around the World Wore Men’s Breeches and Had a Pet Monkey, Atlas Obscura
- The Incredible Coincidence of a Poisonous Tree Growing Next to Its Antidote, Atlas Obscura
- Ohio's Famed 7-Story Basket Building Might Be Doomed, Atlas Obscura
- A 19th-Century Cartographer Crammed All of Human History into this Map, Atlas Obscura
- Mind Your Own Womb, The Huffington Post
- Believe it or not, some people accidentally use ad blockers, Digiday
- 'It's the Devil': Coming to Terms with My Sister’s Schizophrenia, Broadly
- Penthouse Birdwatching, New York Times
- Martha Graham on the Hidden Danger of Comparing Yourself to Others, James Clear
- CARTOGRAPHY COMPARISON: GOOGLE MAPS & APPLE MAPS, justin o'beirne
What I read today - June 7
Ugh. Moving and unpacking and new job and singleness.... I haven't been reading as much.
- Fentanyl Is the Lethal Drug That Killed Prince — And Nobody Seems to Be Talking About It, Mic
Alex told me that this is the best opiate drug since it's so strong. A user carefully applies just a little to their gums to get high. But at some point, an addict will want a stronger high and apply more which he suspects Prince did. The whole thing is terrifying... - People Who Grow Up Around Books Are More Successful, Study Suggests, Mic
- WeWork, the coworking startup valued at $16 billion, is cutting employees and freezing hiring, The Real Deal
- To Get Happier, Focus on What Makes You Miserable, NY Mag
- What's Going On with the Way Canadians Say ‘About'?, Atlas Obscura
- Letter-Writing Manuals Were the Self-Help Books of the 18th Century, Atlas Obscura
- Millennial City, The Real Deal
- Do You Live in a Mail-Order Sears Kit Home? These House Hunters Will Find You, Atlas Obscura
- Honeysuckle Is a Blob-Like Monster Taking Over American Forests, Atlas Obscura
- Arresting Fentanyl Users Won’t Accomplish Anything Good, NY Mag
- MICROSOFT IS TEACHING YOUR PLANTS TO TALK BACK, Fast Co Design
- Can Compost Recycle Our Drugs?, Civil Eats
- THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD WILL GROW ITS OWN FOOD, POWER ITSELF, AND HANDLE ITS OWN WASTE, Fast Co Exist
- Infinite Scrolling Best Practices, UX Planet
- How did public bathrooms get to be separated by sex in the first place?, The Conversation
What I read today - May 26
- Get Fresh Vegetables Each Week for $12 at Bed-Stuy's Community Garden
Alice is pretty savvy on this press thing. 462 is ALWAYS raising money. They've probably gotten at least $10k so far. I'm jealous, but not, all at once. - Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker, NY Times
- Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy, Fusion
- The Books That Made Them Feminists, New Republic
- 21 Questions For Donald Trump, The National Memo
- The men who live as dogs: 'We're just the same as any person on the high street', The Guardian
- How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist, Medium
- Bed-Stuy Seniors Start Co-Living to Ward Off Gentrifiers, Bed-Stuy Patch
- Sydney’s Jazz Age Criminal Queens Ruled the Streets With Razors, Atlas Obscura
- Meet The Men Behind Your Favorite Women's Websites, Bust
- UI, UX: WHO DOES WHAT? A DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO THE TECH INDUSTRY, Co Fast Design
- People Hated Clippy Because He Made Them Feel Powerless, NY Mag
- The startup that's looking to disrupt 'convenience food' just landed a deal with Whole Foods, Business Insider
- New Crop of Companies Reaping Profits From Wasted Food, NY Times
- How would Bayer-Monsanto affect workers, farmers, investors?, Chicago Tribune
What I read today - May 24
- A Flower-Farming Renaissance: America’s Slow Flower Movement, Modern Farmer
- So You Want to Eat a Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Boston's Sidewalks Are Covered In Secret Poems, Atlas Obscura
- Hanson Reveals the Surprising Story Behind 'MMMBop', Broadly
- Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System, Atlas Obscura
- How Trees Help Solve Murders, Atlas Obscura
- How Love Works, The New Republic
- You Can Now Reserve Whole Sections Of Dolores Park Grass For Yourself, For A Price, sfist
- THE START-TO-FINISH DESIGNER, InVision Blog
- Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac, Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Why Some Couples Have So Much More Sex Than Others, NY Mag
- Gentrification’s Latest Victims: New York’s Feral Cats, New York Times
Tracy once talked me into taking the TNR course. She insisted she was going to start working with bodega's in the neighborhood to spade and neuter their bodega cats. Never happened. - A New York State of Design: How NYC Became the Design Capital of the World, Print Mag
- How Bushwick and Ridgewood, Once Entwined, Became Distinct Neighborhoods, Curbed
- After 20,000 years, the world's oldest people face a crisis of culture, CNN
- What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living, Salon
Well, duh. But it still makes me sad.
What I read today - May 23
- Weeds You Can Eat: Pokeweed Sloppy Joes, Gardenista
- What Exactly Is a No-Fee Apartment, Anyway?, Brownstoner
- When it Comes to Food Access, are Grocery Store Hours as Important as Location?, Civil Eats
- 1,910 Envelopes of Heroin, $12K in Cash Seized in Brooklyn Bust, Police Say, DNAinfo
- Plan to Turn Old Fuel Tanks Into Tech Hub Shot Down By Park Advocates, DNAinfo
- Does Your Food Define You? Sophie Egan Thinks So., Civil Eats
- How to Get your Apartment Off the Grid, Resilience
- Suspicious Minds, The Jerx
What I read today - May 19
- A Map of the World's Most Superlative Trees, Atlas Obscura
- Meet Brooklyn's Internet Bonsai Kingpin, Atlas Obscura
- Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Acorn Woodpeckers Hoard Thousands of Acorns in a Single Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Get Out of the Office and Into the Trees as an Urban Arborist, Atlas Obscura
- Study Says Millennials Will Soon Flee Big Cities In Droves, Gothamist
- Millennials Are Moving To Buffalo & Living Like Kings, Gothamist
- Leaf Head: A New Yorker Learns to Look at Trees, Urban Omnibus
- Seeking a Future New York in Weeds, Urban Omnibus
- Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants, Urban Omnibus
"It is an understandable human reaction, as we have been taught, generally, that things which require little to no effort to grow, create, or maintain are worth less. " - #HouseGoals: Housing-obsessed UK has a perky real-estate Instagram, Digiday
- Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants, Urban Omnibus
What I read today - May 17
- What Millennials Want from a New Job, Harvard Business Review
- Shell Oil Spill Near Louisiana Dumps 90,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Into the Gulf of Mexico, Mic
- A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices, Medium
- An All-Volunteer Squad Of Farmers Is Turning Florida Lawns Into Food, NPR
- How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each Other, Atlas Obscura
- 'Useless artifacts': Why brands keep making emoji keyboards, DigiDay
- How The Washingtonian grew homepage traffic by 18 percent, Digiday
- How To Kill Mealybugs On Houseplants, Get Busy Gardening
Stupid buggers invested my office palm - Morristown College: School of Freedom, Sometimes Interesting
- Freeganism: food waste’s first wave, The New Food Economy
- ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home, New York Times
- America’s Food Deserts Need Community Solutions, Not Big Box Stores, Civil Eats
- Women Who Breastfeed Are Shamed for Smoking Weed. Is There a Good Reason?, Broadly
so good - The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am, The Stranger
- Yellowstone Bison Calf Euthanized After Visitors Reportedly Tried to Rescue It Because It Looked Cold, ABC News
What I read today - May 10
- Don’t Underestimate the Power of Lateral Career Moves for Professional Growth, Harvard Business Review
- When You Can't Have A Baby Whenever You Want, Rodale's Organic Life
- 50 Ideas To Inspire Your First Container Garden Project, Rodale's Organic Life
- Children in Farm Communities Pay a Steep Price for the Food We Eat, Civil Eats
- Even the world’s largest food company knows the American diet is an environmental catastrophe, Grist
- Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations, Huffington Post
- I Can’t Tell You Why Our Business Is Growing, Medium
- Budweiser Renames Its Beer "America", Fast Co Design
What I read today - May 9
- Urban Farms Bring Us Together, but Can They Feed Enough of Us?, Civil Eats
- Oakland's Historic Tribune Tower and the Renegade Artist Who Keeps It Glowing, Atlas Obscura
- The Inter-Amish Language Barriers of Indiana, Atlas Obscura
- The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting, Atlas Obscura
- For New York City's black cowboy group, it's high noon, Daily Mail
I think the Federation of Black Cowboys is one of those incredible organizations of NYC and is rather sad that it just might be ending. - The Legacy of Albania’s 700,000 Bunkers, Slate
- A Century of Conflicted, Complicated Motherhood in Art, The New Republic
- Measuring Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media, New York Times
- Trickle-Down Feminism, Revisited, Dissent Magazine
- Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News, Gizmodo
- PWR BTTM, Tiny Desk Concert, NPR
- Urban Farms Fuel Idealism. Profits? Not So Much, NPR
- Dismantling neoliberal education: a lesson from the Zapatistas, ROAR
I fell down an extremely cynical and disheartening rabbit hole of a Facebook feed. I feel this way sometimes and then another way and another and eventually I just figure I should make myself happy. It tends to be individualistic and capitalistic because why would I want a hard life? And so I never think these think pieces really give the answer to how to fix things and is more of a 'just stop doing and feel guilty about it.' - From Farm to Bottle: This Brewery Combines Beer and Agriculture, Modern Farmer
What I read today - May 6-8
- How and Why American Cities Are Coming Back, City Lab
- How One Photographer Finally Convinced a President to Give Him Full Access, Atlas Obscura
- Living Lofts: The Evolution of the Cast Iron District, Urban Omnibus
- How Taco Bell made that terrifying giant taco Snapchat lens, Digiday
- “THE ARTIST’S WAY” IN AN AGE OF SELF-PROMOTION, The New Yorker
- Scarred Riverbeds and Dead Pistachio Trees in a Parched Iran, New York Times
- Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage, New York Times
What I read today - May 2
- Music and magic at the city’s first roof gardens, Ephemeral New York
- Workwear for Women Who Farm, Civil Eats
- The Extraordinary Lives of Istanbul's Street Cats, City Lab
- How Unstaffed Grocery Stores Can Bring Healthy Food To Rural Communities, Food Tech Connect
- The Great West Point Chain Hoax That Conned Mayors and Musuems, Untapped Cities
- Modern-Day Logos That Look Awfully Similar to Older Logos From Different Companies, Core77
- The NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room Dazzles, Even Mid-Renovation, Curbed
- In 2016, Toddlers Have Shot More People in the US Than Muslim Terrorists Have, Mic
- America’s obsession with adult coloring is a cry for help, Quartz
- Interactive Map Shows How Your Neighborhood Has Recovered From the Housing Market Crash, 6sqft
Just great. Bed Stuy prices have risen 194% which is the largest increase of any metro area in the country. Four years ago, we started a community garden. Almost all the renters who helped start the garden weren't rent stabilized and have (mostly) all left the area. A few of us are still hanging on, but as I feel myself moving out of the area, I assume the rest of us renters in Bed Stuy who started the garden will be gone in a few years. It makes me incredibly sad. - America’s great housing divide: Are you a winner or loser?, The Washington Post
What I read today - May 1
- The void only you can see, Kelli Anderson
- GOING DEEP: DESIGNER KELLI ANDERSON, Create
What I read today - April 29
- Why Becoming Parents Makes People Better Employees, Fast Company
- ‘AGRIHOODS’ OFFER SUBURBAN LIVING BUILT AROUND COMMUNITY FARMS, NOT GOLF COURSES - FOOD IS FREE PROJECT, Over Grow the System
- Money Troubles, The New Yorker
- Have we got Positive News for you! And it’s illustrated by Noma Bar, It's Nice That
- The Really Big One, The New Yorker
- The Queer Black Woman Who Reinvented The Blues, Atlas Obscura
- Alexis Bhagat Grand Street Community Arts, Blog Talk Radio
Lex is amazing - The Most Beautiful Tulip in History Cost as Much as a House, Atlas Obscura
- Little prince: How a royal robe broke the internet, Digiday
- Beyoncé profits over social media controversy with 'Boycott Beyoncé' T-shirt, Digiday
- How Rihanna Maintains Control, Fader
I also got up to date with Rih's videos. - Nestlé’s Half-Billion-Dollar Noodle Debacle in India, Fortune
- What You Need To Know About That 'Cute' Lemur Video, NPR
- Shantell, Inc: Meet Collaboration Queen Shantell Martin, W
- Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers, Harvard Business Review
- Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career, Harvard Business Review
What I read today - April 28
- The rise of 'micro-influencers' on Instagram, Digiday
- Do you eat? Then you should care about agriculture policy., The Baltimore Sun
- When Architects Run Your Building, Urban Omnibus
- Katherine Lennard F'16
Jess' sis got a Fellowship. - The Epic Century-Long English Battle to Rid Itself of American Squirrels, Atlas Obscura
- Meet the New York Times’ Jenna Wortham before she reinvents herself again, Re/Code
- A Chinese puzzle solved - Pilea peperomioides
- This Is How Language Might Be Mapped In Your Brain, Buzzfeed
- Stuff You Should Know: How NYC School Zones and Districts Work, 6 sqft
- Dodging cars and harassment, women bike messengers band together for support, Cycling Tips