What I read today - Dec 8
- The Popular Victorian Clubs That Yearned To Fill Europe With Hippos, Atlas Obscura
- Color of 2017? Pantone Picks a Spring Shade, NY Times
- There’s a Miniature Earth in the Desert of Arizona with a Very Strange Story, Messy Nessy Chic
- Move over Marie Kondo, ‘wabi sabi’ is the hot new Japanese lifestyle concept, Timeline
- How the 1963 'Career Girl Murders' Bolstered the Myth that Cities Aren’t Safe For Women, Atlas Obscura
- Time for a Fresh Look at SNAP, National Review
I would suspect food companies and their lobbiests will cry waaayyy more than Dems about candy, ice cream, and bag snacks being off the list. Afterall, many Dems and those advocating for a healthier food system supported the soda ban. - First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber, Nat Geo
- New "Chicken From Hell" Dinosaur Discovered, Nat Geo
What I read today - Dec 5
- Death Toll in Oakland Warehouse Fire Rises Past 30 as Search Continues, NY Times
- Army Blocks Drilling of Dakota Access Oil Pipeline, NY Times
- Hipster Dads Now Want to Be Called ‘Papa’, The Daily Beast
OMG. - The Miscarriage Penalty, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Mourning My Miscarriage, NY Times
- Rob Portman’s Crusade against Opioid Addiction, The National Review
- Rootstocks: Do they impact flavor?, unconventional stories from an apple farmer
Super nerdy, but oh-so-interesting! - Growing Up in a Library Is Exactly As Magical As You'd Imagine, Atlas Obscura
- Found: A River Humans Started Polluting 7,000 Years Ago, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Dec 2
- Six food-assistance programs that’ll make you think twice about dropping a can in a bin, The New Food Economy
- Here’s a better alternative to food banks – subsidised national kitchens, The New Food Economy
- Bernie Sanders: Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump, Washington Post
- How I landed my first 5-figure UX design contract, InVision Blog
- The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play!, NY Times
What I read today - Dec 1
- First Look: Two-Building, 296-Unit Residential Project on Flushing Avenue Near Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY YIMBY
- How Brooklyn Changed Everything, Food & Wine
- Trump Presidency Could Stall Gowanus Canal Cleanup, Experts Say, DNA Info
- New park unveiled for controversial Williamsburg waterfront site, Arch Paper
- Not A Hack: U.S. Office Of Government Ethics Tweets At Trump, NPR
- Kratom: The Bitter Plant That Could Help Opioid Addicts—if the DEA Doesn’t Ban It, Wired
What I read today - Nov 30
- My first gallery show, Around & Around, Kelli Anderson
The things she's interested in are so fascinating! - The Waste of a College Education, The Transformed Wife
This woman is so incredibly insulting. If parents taught kids financial responsibility and we reformed the way universities work, perhaps kids wouldn't be in so much debt. Also, one can have a college degree and still have traditional homesteading skills - I pointed it out in the comments but it didn't get published. Woman probably doesn't have homesteading skills herself. Oy.
What I read today - Nov 29
- What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some scenarios, hechinger report
- Alex Wheatle: ‘I felt like the token black writer who talks about ghetto stuff’, The Guardian
- Making America White Again, The New Yorker
- J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America, The New Republic
- U.S. Abortion Rate Continues To Decline, The National Review
Interesting... but are greater restrictions the source of the decline? If it's a general decrease, then what's happening in states where there aren't as many restrictions? - Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It?, Think Progress
Obv biased the other way than the National Review, but a more comprehensive report than just a pat on the back. - New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abortion Declines, Guttmacher Institute
A comprehensive study of the situation looking at trends in pregnancy to understand the decline in abortion - Venezuela's currency now worth so little shopkeepers weigh vast piles of notes instead of counting them, The Independent
- If Trump Goes Hard on Immigration, Who Will Grow, Process, and Serve Our Food?, Civil Eats
- Who Will Be Donald Trump’s Agriculture Secretary?, Modern Farmer
- Trump’s Attorney General Could Smooth Way For Monsanto-Bayer Merger, Says Report, Modern Farmer
- The Pilgrims Had No Idea How to Farm Here. Luckily, They Had the Native Americans, Modern Farmer
- Are Semester Abroad Accents Real or Fake?, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Nov 28
- Understanding Trump’s America, National Review
- Trump assails recount push, claims millions voted illegally, Washington Post
- “Money masters”, Vice
- Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Jacobian
- Portraits Of…70’s & 80’s CHOLAS Culture, cvlt nation
- 725 Fifth Avenue / Trump Tower, Privately Owned Public Space
- Cholo, Wikipedia
- The Folk Feminist Struggle Behind the Chola Fashion Trend, Vice
- Chola style – the latest cultural appropriation fashion crime?, The Guardian
Some of the comments are better than the article - Givenchy’s Victorian Chola Girl Gang—and the FKA twigs Connection, Vogue
- Madagascar Fashion Designers, kreol magazine
What I read today - Nov 25
- The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote, Atlas Obscura
- Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development, City Limits
- The War on the Poor Is Already Underway, Talk Poverty
- Agar, Wikipedia
I had a discussion last night at the hut about agar being used in place of jello for multi-color layers. It quickly went to exploring algae that lights up in beverages - After Two Wars, Standing Rock is the First Time I Served the American People, Common Dreams
What I read today - Nov 23
- Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote, Huffington Post
- The Other English Royals, Messy Nessy Chic
- 15,000 More Public Workers Are Fired in Turkey Crackdown, NY Times
- The 1920s ‘Circus Girl’ Who Fought Sexism—With Tigersm, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Nov 22
- The Right Way to Resist Trump, NY Times
- The Trump-Climate Freakout , The National Review
- Feminism Makes Weak Women, The National Review
- What Is the Post-Hillary Feminism?, New Republic
- Welfare is a Women's Issue (1972), Ms Magazine
- The history of (not) shopping as a protest act, Timeline
- Donald Trump’s Business Dealings Test a Constitutional Limit, NY Times
- Devouring (and Drinking) American History, NY Times
- The Worst Paid Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater, Atlas Obscura
- Craftivism: How women have reclaimed domesticity as a form of protest, Timeline
- How the Completed Bushwick Inlet Park Will Change Williamsburg, Brownstoner
- No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS, Bloomberg
Makes more sense why I may get rashes from store bought aloe products
What I read today - Nov 21
- The Complicated History of the Beloved Composition Notebook, Eye on Design
- comp, Kickstarter
$19 for ONE! AND there's no squared grid. - The Composition Notebook Gets A Luxurious Redesign, Fast Co design
"'To me, the appeal of composition notebooks is they're not fussy,' Fay says." This notebook he's created IS FUSSY. Obvi, I've read too many articles about this now. - This Parisian man’s photos changed homicide investigations forever, Timeline
- What Women Used Before They Could Use the Law, n+1
My older friend from the nursery asked yesterday if I knew any Trump supporters. When I said my folks, she asked why and I cited that they didn't want to pay for abortions (while federal funds go to PP, they don't go directly to abortions. Rather, to general women's health and research, like finding a cure to Zika); health insurance premiums are too much; racism is a lie the Democrats have been perpetuating too long; and they hate Hilary. Her response was, sure, let's start back alley abortions up again saying she knew several women who came out alive from them. One woman was her brother's girlfriend (now wife) who had gotten pregnant while they were in school. They had no money so her and her other brother scraped together $500 to send her to a back alley doctor. - Investigating Surveillance Around Standing Rock, Just Security
- Nice, decent folks, Cold Takes
What I read today - Nov 16
- Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America?, National Review
- Republicans are suddenly realizing the economy is actually in good shape, Vox
- Nakagin Capsule Tower, jordy meow
- How The ACLU Plans To Defend Rights After A Surge In Donations, Fast Company
- IN THE HEART OF TRUMP COUNTRY, The New Yorker
What I read today - Nov 14
- Life After Evangelicalism, Rachel Held Evans
- The People Behind Your Food Are More Vulnerable Than Ever, Civil Eats
What I read today - Nov 12
- Letter to my black daughter under a Trump presidency, Boing Boing
- S.1203 - 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery and Other Improvements Act, Congress
- Getting familiar with Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter
- Forget “Why?”, it’s time to get to work., medium
- The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb, Medium
- Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change, New York Times