- WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer), the intercept
- The Accidental Power of Design, NY Times
- If You Want to Live in a Copenhagen Commune, Get Ready for Red Tape, Atlas Obscura
- Maybe Stop Asking Kids to Recap Their School Days, NY Mag
- Our parents discovered leisure. We killed it., Timeline
- Finding an ATM could get harder as thousands of small businesses avoid making upgrades, Mic
Charles Schwab <3 - Modern Teens Willing to Eat Healthy If It Will Piss Their Parents Off, NY Mag
I totally GET this - The Largest Prison Strike in American History Is Happening Right Now, City Lab
- Donald Trump is describing an America that doesn't exist, Mic
- The Pagan Wild Men of Europe, Messy Nessy Chic
In Poland.... "The symbolic ancestors, dziady, wear costumes made of woven straw and masks of sheep skin. They can’t reveal their real identity or talk, and only murmur, whistle and hoot. They usually carry small baskets, into which they get small offerings such as food, or are greeted with a sip of vodka. They perform ritual dances and pull small pranks by each house they stop by." - Asphalt Archaeology, bklynr
- Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?, Pricenomics
- From 280 Tribes, a Protest on the Plains, NY Times
beautiful. - U.S. Suspends Construction on Part of North Dakota Pipeline, NY Times
- ‘I Want to Win Someday’: Tribes Make Stand Against Pipeline, NY Times
- Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning, The Guardian
- A Brief Compendium of Vintage Opium Underworlds, Messy Nessy Chic
- The Vintage Girls of New York City, Bazaar
- Why Is Interracial Marriage on the Rise?, Priceonomics
- Yosemite National Park Grows Toward West In Largest Expansion Since 1949, NPR
- Meet the Woman Who Runs NYC’s First Commercial Farm in a Residential Development, Modern Farmer
- Watch These Girls Take On Body Hair Stigmas And Self-Love In This Inspiring Video, Bust
- Inside Australia’s prison colony, where even children view death as their only hope, Latterly
- VERY clever – removes the growth rings to reveal the original sapling, The Vintage News
- A PIPELINE FIGHT AND AMERICA’S DARK PAST, The New Yorker
I'm glad this has hit a national publication. FINALLY! - The last days of Admiral's Row's stately, neglected mansions, Curbed
I've been eyeing the demotion progress during my weekly rides to Red Hook. Makes me a little sad that the city and federal government wouldn't take initiative in preserving these structures since there was debate on who was responsible. - Tracing the History of the Neon Sign at NYC’s White Horse Tavern, Untapped Cities
I think I just might go on this tour. I'm ready for daylight savings and NEON NAIL SALONS - The farm that runs without sun, soil or water, CNN
- Trace the evolution of high heels across 100 years, Boing boing
- FINDING THE BEST FREE FONTS FOR NUMBERS, InVision Blog
I'm confused... are they NOT teaching designers about typography these days in school. ugh.
- Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things, NY Times
- 10 Ways My Life Has Changed Since I Started The Daily Practice, Medium
- How I Moved On From MyWhat Not To Wear Style, Refinery 29
"Sometimes people ... find it hard to measure my value without the traditional milestones of a life lived..."
- Pothos Vs. Philodendron, House Plant Journal
- When Is a Pothos Not a Pothos?, New Pro Containers
- FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective, Arts Technica
- The Forgotten Bohemian Queen of the Paris Art World: Leonor Fini, Messy Nessy Chic
- Butterflies Remember What They Learned as Caterpillars, Wired
- Life in the Native American oil protest camps, BBC
- Native Americans Protest New Oil Pipeline In North Dakota, NPR
- The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees, NPR
- City should not trust private equity firms to build affordable housing, Crain's
- Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated, Brain Pickings
- Candy brands mourn Gene Wilder with tweets, DigiDay
- To Bond With Your Co-workers, Take Out the Headphones and Blast Happy Tunes, NY Mag
- Goodbye, Seller's Market. Price Growth Cools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, DNAinfo
- The Forgotten Millennials, The New Republic
- The Race to Study a Dying Sign Language Before It Disappears, NY Mag
- 18 New York Post Anthony Weiner Headline Puns, Ranked, Wired
- Urban Agriculture and the New Meaning of “Eating Local”, Vogue
I apprenticed at this farm in Brooklyn. Annie's facebook has been blowing up with photos from this shoot. - Making Modern Toughness, NY Times
Pretty Cool
- A Community Garden Became an Alternative to Juvenile Detention, City Lab
- The Cost of Holding On, NY Times
- The Last of the Granny Witches, Appalachian ink
- Appalachian Granny Magic, Witch Vox
- In the ’70s, She Motorcycled Around the World. Today, She’s Fashion’s Unlikely New Muse., NY Times
I don't particularly care that Chloé is basing clothes off Anne-France Dautheville's history because I'll probably never wear them. But I like that she did it because she wanted to and set her ego down. I've been feeling like Franny lately... - The 2016 Presidential Election, According to 8-Year-Olds, NY Mag
- The Ballad of Big Freedia: How the New Orleans Bounce Icon Was Betrayed By Her City’s Housing Crisis, Pitchfork
- Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink, Quartz
- If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work, Quartz
I made a macrame plant hanger yesterday. I feel pretty proud of myself
- Mud Mavens: Mud Girls Founder Jen Gobby, Dwell
- This Study Got People to Make Huge Life Decisions by Flipping a Coin, NY Mag
Alex said he used to live his life by flipping a coin. It starts with the big stuff and then you can't make a decision without flipping a coin. But the premise is good. It's better to take action than submit to the status quo. - How Peter Thiel Killed Gawker, Jacobian
- 7 Dream-Killing Habits (and How to Break Them), The Change Blog
Ugh. FML - What I Think Every Time I See an Airbnb Renter in My Neighborhood, Next City
- ‘I wasn’t crazy’: Homeless woman proves the U.S. government owes her $100,000, National Post
- The lingering effects of NYC's racist city planning, Hopes & Fears
- In Defense of Villainesses, Tor.com
- How the Olympics Lost Millennials, The New Republic
- Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims, Atlas Obscura
- Only 20 Percent Of Voters Are ‘Real Americans‘, FiveThirtyEight
- The Trump–Pence Logo Was a Yuge Missed Opportunity, Slate
I went to college with this guy. - Straight Edge Women Describe What It's Like to Go Totally Sober, Broadly
- NYC’s Freedom Tunnel Gets Spotlight in the Book “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York”, Untapped Cities
- Inside The Playlist Factory, Buzzfeed
- Bed-Stuy Smoke Shop Suspected of Selling K2 Closed by Court Order, DNAinfo
- Red Hook Ferry Service Will Officially Land at Atlantic Basin, Curbed
- The Psychology of Why Americans Are Afraid of Historically Low Crime Levels, NY Mag
- The Case Against Having a Backup Plan, NY Mag
- Beyond native: How the NY Times plans to turn T Brand Studio into a full-fledged agency, DIgiday
- New Photos of NYC’s First Residential Urban Farm at Urby Staten Island, 6sqft
- Photos Reveal the inside of NYC’s Washington Square Arch, Untapped Cities