• How to Clean Water With Old Coffee Grounds, smithsonianmag
• Whole Foods Sets Up Shop in Low-Income Neighborhoods, WSJ
  On one hand, it's great low-income residents can get quality food. On the other, the city sold property and provided subsidies totaling around $13mil. 
• Our love of cheap seafood is tainted by slavery: how can it be fixed?, The Guardian

• The Solar Eclipse of 1925, Untapped Cities
• Burning Down the House, New York Times
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mentor, Or, Why Modernist Designers Are Superior, Design Observer
  My fav boss and mentor also worked at Vignelli with Beruit. I credit Tom for a lot in my career, I learned so much from him
• A world-famous urbanist says New York is becoming a “gated suburb”, Quartz

• 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

• 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

• Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier, Our World in Data
• Do we have a food movement? The New York Times food issue, Food Politics

• Mass authentic, The New Inquiry
• A Body Language Expert Decodes Donald Trump's Lurking in the Presidential Debate, Broadly
• 'It's Transformative': Māori Women Talk About Their Sacred Chin Tattoos, Broadly
• Corporations Have Rights. Why Not Nature?, The New Republic

• 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

• In Defense of Mobile Homes, Pricenomics
• Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis, National Geographic
• The Millennial Economy, Economic Innovation Group

• Donald Trump Has Turned Mike Pence Into a Vice Liar, New Republic

• First and Foremost, the Wells Fargo Scandal Is About Workers, The American Prospect
• The Rise and Fall of the 1-900 Number, Pricenomics
• The Links Between Creativity and Depression, Eye on Design
• What would happen if the world suddenly went vegetarian, BBC

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I Used to Be a Human Being, NY Mag
• If You Want Creative Kids, Hand Them Something Simple, Wired

• My Mom Grew Up in a Utopian Colony in Iowa, Atlas Obscura
• The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s, Atlas Obscura
• A New Book Says You Should Talk to Strangers. Counterpoint: No., NY Mag
• Anti-Trump Republicans: Don’t Waste Your Vote. Trade It., NY Times

• Fall begins Thursday: Five questions and answers about the autumnal equinox, The Washington Post

• 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

• 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

• Bayer Secures Monsanto Takeover With $56 Billion Bid, NY Times

• 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