What I read today - Jan 17
- From Tufting to Jingles, the Evolution of Modern Carpet, Atlas Obscura
- The Wrong Way to Speak to Children, WSJ
- Milton Friedman, Betsy DeVos, and the Privatization of Public Education, Dissent
- Two Russian Icebreakers Are Currently Stuck In Sea Ice, Atlas Obscura
- Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy, From the Poor People’s Campaign to Black Lives Matter, Dissent
- Obamacare saved my life. What now?, CNN
- HOUSE BILL NO. 1203, North Dakota
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages."
- How to organize a volunteer-based, radical new form of American politics, Boing Boing
- Why Bernie Sanders Came Up Short—and How That Lesson Can Fuel Future Progressive Victories, AlterNet
- Black Lives Matter Chicago and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Root
- The Rise of the Luxurious Suburban Master Bathroom, Atlas Obscura
- A Guide to Basic Differences between Left and Right, National Review
What I read today - jan 13
- Barack Obama, Forever a Third-Culture Kid, New Republic
- New York Secures the Most Affordable Housing Units in 27 Years, NY Times
- Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles, The Women's March
- The Women’s March on Washington Has Released an Unapologetically Progressive Platform, Slate
- Women’s March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race, NY Times
- The Irrationally Divided Critics of Donald Trump, The Atlantic
- Kale Is About To Have An Identity Crisis, NPR
- How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves, Quartz
- Carson, Trump's Pick For Housing Agency, Won't Rule Out Grants To Trump Properties, NPR
- Why Shepard Fairey’s inauguration protest posters won’t have Trump on them, PBS
What I read today - Jan 12
- Mental health first aid, American Psychological Association
- Mental health first aid, Wikipedia
- How I met my daughter before she was born, Adventure Club
- Trump Is Exactly the Monster We Feared, and Republicans Are Enabling Him, New Republic
- Generation X had the luxury of being rebel slackers, but Millennials have to be total squares, Timeline
- The promise and limits of ‘mental health first aid’, Boston Globe
- Housing Crisis, n+1
What I read today - jan 6
- Why misogyny won, Vox
- History was not kind to drug-addicted mothers, but that started to change in the 1980s, Timeline
- 3,000 Polaroids and Four Years Later, an Instant Photographer Looks Back, The Creators Project
- Why Rural America Voted for Trump, NY Times
- Three transformative ways to think about the future, Ideas.Ted.com
- How a Blind Doctor's 'Moon Code' Helped Thousands Read Again, Atlas Obscura
- For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities, Atlas Obscura
- ‘Republicans are for black Americans’, Washington Post
What I read today - Jan 5
- Mesmerizing Depictions of Magic and Witchcraft Throughout History, Atlas Obscura
- Sessions Is No Racist: Take Black Democrats’ Word for It, National Review
- The Search for the Real America, The National Review
- Roe v. Wade Is Popular, with Asterisks, The National Review
- The future of blockchain in 8 charts, Raconteur
- When 'Petting Parties' Scandalized The Nation, NPR
- Found: An Ancient Groundcherry That Proves Nightshades Are Older Than We Think, Atlas Obscura
I love ground cherries - A Missouri Home With A Storied Past, Design Sponge
What I read today - Jan 4
- Feminism Lost. Now What?, NY Times
- How Flap Illustrations Helped Reveal the Body's Inner Secrets, Atlas Obscura
- SNAP to Health launches new website, resources, Food Politics
- Mason to Go Launching on Kickstarter Tomorrow!, Food in Jars
while interesting, not sure why people can't just bring along two jars as the weight difference wouldn't be that much - The children they gave away, Salon
- High Times in the 18th Century by Debra Daley, The History Girls
- Need Help Understanding Malagasy Names; Race in Madagascar , Reddit
- I Guess We’re Just Not Going to Make a Fuss About That., National Review
- Natural childbirth is much, much more than a Brooklyn fad, The Week
What I read today - Jan 3
- With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office, New York Times
Jeeze louise. - Your brain tells you healthy has to be expensive, New Food Economy
- New York Botanical Garden Breaks Ground for an Edible Academy, Edible Manhattan
- Where to Eat in Columbus, Ohio, Edible Manhattan
- New York state is suffering from its worst drought in decades, New Food Economy
- The Tula Plant Truck Hits the Road, Design Sponge
- January 2017 Editor’s Letter + #DSinspire, Design Sponge
- Move Over, Marie Kondo: Make Room for the Hygge Hordes, NY Times
- Why Can’t the U.S. Decolonize Its Design Education?, Eye on Design
- John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90, The Guardian
- How to Keep a Commonplace Book With Evernote, Motivated Mastery
- House Republicans Back Down on Bid to Gut Ethics Office, NY Times
- Cuomo Proposes Free Tuition at New York State Colleges for Eligible Students, NY Times
- Where Is America’s Heartland? Pick Your Map, NY Times
- Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon 2017, NYBG Blog
What I read today - Dec 30
- Becoming Ugly, Jezebel
- Cinema’s First Sex Symbol was also America’s First Goth, Messy nessy chic
- What you can find Mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore in London, Messy Nessy chic
- Trump and Trudeau: An Odd Couple That Scares the Hell Out of Environmentalists, The New Republic
- Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch on Route 66, California Through My Lens
- Whole Foods’ ‘Cultural Appropriation’ of the Chopped-Cheese Sandwich, The National Review
- Ignoring the Flaws with Abortion-Turnaway Study, The national Review
- An Interactive Film About Co-Living Drawing from 70s Feminist Communes + Dutch Graphic Design, Eye on Design
- Finally, Sophisticated Tampon Packaging Design for Women Sick of Feminine Clichés, eye on design
What I read today - Dec 22
- The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man, Atlas Obscura
- Teachers in Wealthy Districts Get Bulk of Indiana's Performance Payouts, Education Week
- The Triumph of the 1%, Dissent
- How Trump’s Tax Proposals Will Affect Single Working Mothers, Harvard Business Review
- AN ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP’S REVISED TAX PLAN, Tax policy center
What I read today - Dec 20
- 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
What I read today - Dec 16
- 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
What I read today - Dec 12
- 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