• How Pleather Saved the DuPont Company—And Some Cows, Too, Atlas Obscura
• How the Battle for Sunlight Shaped New York City, City Lab
• Work in Progress: Brooklyn Lace Guild, Textile Arts center
• Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse, Textile Arts center
• Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump, politico
  “Speaker Gingrich’s statement that wealth trumps the rule of law, basically that’s what he was saying, is jaw-dropping,” added American University government professor James Thurber. “I can’t believe it. He’s a historian. He should also know that we did not want to have a king. A king in this case is somebody with a lot of money who cannot abide by the rule of law."
• Here’s an ancient philosophy so simple even a 5-year-old could understand it, Boing Boing
• What drugs were the Nazis on, anyway?, CNN
• A Wonderful Life: How Postwar Christmas Embraced Spaceships, Nukes, Cellophane, Collectors Weekly
• When Do You Outgrow IKEA?, Pricenomics

• A New Era for Abortion Law, The National Review
• For Teddy Roosevelt's Son, Rebelling Meant Sneaking Christmas Trees Into the White House, Atlas Obscura
• Fred and Myrtle’s Shell House, Messy nessy Chic
• Feminist Anthropology, The New Inquiry

• Tied in Knots, New Republic
• The ‘Wickedest Woman in New York’ who made abortion affordable for women in the 1800s, Timeline
• Abortion in American History, The Atlantic

• How the Victorian Fern-Hunting Craze Led To Adventure, Romance, and Crime, Atlas Obscura

• Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House, The Washington Post
• Trump team's 'intrusive' memo alarms federal climate scientists, The Christian Science Monitor
• The Eighties Called; They Got Their Foreign Policy Back, The National Review
• Is Precision Agriculture the Way to Peak Cropland?, The Breakthrough Insitute
  Series recommended by Joe Wood. While I understand the premise that feeding the world is an incredibly daunting task and we ought to use more tech to get higher yields, I'm not sure what putting the entire world on corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat will do to our diet. It's promoting industrial processing rather than a balanced diet. The article also doesn't seem sensitive to cultural differences. Rice is a staple crop in many countries, but is corn? It also puts the power of food in a few companies hands rather than local economies. Also to note is the price implications for small farmers to purchase technologically advanced machinery. No longer are farmers able to fix the machines themselves as it's proprietary and must get fixed by license repair men, but tech becomes outdated fast! There's also a lack of biodiversity in industrial ag and local ecological knowledge. I'm interested in opposing ideas and reading the series but have my questions.
• ‘Pesticide powerhouses’ and the future of farming, Sustainable food Trust
• No Wonder the Standing Rock Sioux Opposed the Pipeline, The national Review
• What Women Really Think of Men, NY Times
• Recipes for Comfort & Joy: The Healing Powers of Conifers, Gather Victoria

• The American Dream, Quantified at Last , NY Times
• Onward, Christian Health Care?, NY Times
• A How-to Guide for Rolling Back Obama’s Regulatory State, The National Review
• How Marriage and Single Parenthood Affected the 2016 Election, The National Review
• Kew Gardens in race to collect and preserve Madagascar's seeds, The Guardian
• The Privately Owned Public Space Inside Trump Tower is Already Less Accessible, Untapped Cities
• This 1920s Bauhaus Ballet is a Serious Trip, Messy Nessy Chic
• When Mother Teresa Met With New York's Mayor to Lobby for a Parking Permit, Atlas Obscura
• Media Spreads Fake Story That Trump Protesters Will Be Barred from Public Lands, The national Review
• Digital Services for the State of California
• Has a Start-Up Found the Secret to Farming the Elusive Truffle?, NY Times
• They Lost Their Jungles to Plantations, But These Indigenous Women Grew Them Back, Yes Magazine
• The Future of Food: Towards a Sustainable Food System for a Planet with 9 Billion People, The Breakthrough

• 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

• Laying a New Foundation at HUD, City Journal

• Get That Life: How We Opened New York City’s Weirdest Nightclub, Cosmopolitan
• Bklyn Commons inks lease for 30K sf on Broadway in Bed-Stuy, The Real Deal
• After 8 Years of Expanding Them, Obama Insists That Presidential War Powers Are Limited, the intercept
• Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone, NY Times

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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’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

• 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

• Make Room on Your Shelves, Completely Necessary New Food Magazine Cured Has Arrived, Eye on Design

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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