What I read today - Oct 13
- The Central Paradox of Love: Esther Perel on Reconciling the Closeness Needed for Intimacy with the Psychological Distance That Fuels Desire, Brain Pickings
- Will This New Bill Level the Playing Field for Urban Farms?, Civil Eats
- How Kudzu, “The Vine that Ate the South,” Put Southern Agriculture on the Skids, Modern Farmer
What I read today - Oct 12
- Is Trump Teflon? Most Say No as Brand Perception Takes a Hit, WSJ
- Activists disrupt key Canada-U.S. oil pipelines, Reuters
- The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life, Brain Pickings
And this is why I'm not an artist... - I Am Not I: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on How We Become Who We Are and the Path to Self-Liberation, Brain Pickings
- Hillary Clinton to Panicked Republicans: You’re on Your Own, New Republic
- A Court Ruled Against Elizabeth Warren’s Brainchild—and Saved It., New Republic
- Controlling Astor Place, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
- Business Improvement Districts Ruin Neighborhoods, New Republic
- New York City May Double Number of Food Vendor Permits., New York Times
Bout time! Although the prez of midtown BIDs thinks they're unsightly. pfffftttt - Fabric Dyeing with Algae: A Watery New Frontier, The Plant Hunter
- True Indigo Dyeing: The Fermented Vat, The Plant Hunter
What I read today - Oct 7
- Five Years of Drought, Adventures in Mapping
- The Not-So-Wholesome Reality Behind The Making of Your Meal Kit, Buzzfeed
- Move Over, Rats. New York Is Planning an Underground Park., New York Times
What I read today - 0ct 6
- In Defense of Mobile Homes, Pricenomics
- Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis, National Geographic
- The Millennial Economy, Economic Innovation Group
What I read today - Oct 3
- Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Rebellion, Brain Pickings
- Soviet soldier presumed dead found living in Afghanistan, The Guardian
- The Politics of Pockets, Racked
- What San Francisco Says About America, New York Times
- Doing Time in the Gardens of Alcatraz, the Plant Hunter
- America’s Short, Violent Love Affair With Indoor Track Cycling, Atlas Obscura
- How Beige Took Over American Homes, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Sep 29
- The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate, Brain Pickings
- Harvest and the Human Spirit: Henry Beston on How Our Relationship to the Earth Reveals Us to Ourselves, Brain Pickings
- Why Do Americans Find Cuba Sexy — but Not Puerto Rico?, Pacific Standard
- What's Happening in Standing Rock?, Outside
- A History and Future of Resistance, Jacobin
My dad just read The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
What I read today - Sep 27
- For the birds, NY Post
- How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation, Harvard Business Review
- What Your Starbucks Habit Really Costs You, Yahoo News
- An Un-Conventional Thirst: Collecting 7Up's Most Beautiful, Hallucinatory Billboards, Collectors Weekly
- Confessions of a Ross Perot Voter , New Republic
- The Trademarking of "Taco Tuesday", Pricenomics
What I read today - Sep 21
- Media Silent As Major Pipeline Spills While Protests Against North Dakota Pipeline Continue, Anonymous
- Urban Removal: How A Utopian Vision For Hell's Kitchen Burned Out, Gothamist
- France Just Banned Plastic Cups and Cutlery, Munchies
- City of Cycling: Speed, Urban Omnibus
- OP-ED: IS SUBSTANCE ABUSE LYRICS IN HIP HOP CULTURE REALLY A COVER UP FOR DEPRESSION?, Afropunk
- Standing Rock Sioux Takes Pipeline Fight to UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, NBC News
- HUMANS OF NEW YORK AND THE CAVALIER CONSUMPTION OF OTHERS, The New Yorker
What I read today - Sep 19
- 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
What I read today - Sep 13
- 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
What I read today - Sep 12
- 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
What I read today - Sep 8
- 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