What I read today April 7
- 10 Types of Odd Friendships You’re Probably Part Of, Wait but Why
- Montessori Friendly Baby Toys at 4 Months, the kavanaugh report
- The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret., WaPo
- Meet The Democratic Socialist Running For City Council In Brooklyn, Gothamist
What I read today - April 6
- Natural Gross Motor Development -- Montessori Baby Week 18, the kavanaugh report
- What’s Behind the Long Lines and Angry Voices at Many City Post Offices, City Limits
Besides loving my new apartment I love my new zip code that has a GREAT post office. I'm always telling Eric how lovely it is when I have to pick up a package. No lines early in the morning and If I do have to wait in a line, it's only 20 minutes and everyone is FRIENDLY - Republicans Abandon the Filibuster to Save Neil Gorsuch, The Atlantic
What I read today - April 5
- Check This Box if You’re a Good Person, NY Times
- Postcards from a Seaside Village of Upturned Boat Homes, Messy nessy chic
- New Pittsburg, Kan., High School principal resigns after student journalists question her credentials, Kansas City star
- The Depressing Truth About Hipster Food Towns, Mother Jones
- Inside the 150 Year-Old Skeleton of an Unfinished Octagonal Palace, Messy Nessy Chic
What I read today - April 4
- The Problem With Interactive Graphics, Fast Co Design
- The “Bart And Lisa” Theory Of Information Design, Cast Co Design
- Girl, 2, defends her choice of doll to cashier, CNN
- Good News for the Older Mothers, NY Times
- Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire, The New Yorker
- Are Open Floor Plans Here to Stay?, Design Sponge
- Gender-neutral baby clothes are actually an old-school approach, Timeline
- Vinyl is having its best year since 1985. Shame no one is listening to the records, Quartz
- American Woman Reaches a New Milestone in Rock Climbing, Nat Geo
- Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools, The Huffington Post
Yes, I've already started thinking about schools for the bean.
What I read today April 3
- The many lives of two Chelsea carriage houses, ephemeral new york
- Our Progression of Knives from 1 until 3-years-old, the kavanaugh report
- The Evolution of Chromatic Type, I Love Typography
- The Curious Case of Urban Homesteading, The jacobian
- Is There Such a Thing as the American Ghetto?, Dissent
- The U.S. Cannot Be Run Like a Business, Harvard business review
What I read today March 31
- Exploring Toys -- Montessori Baby Week 17, the kavanaugh report
- Twisted Love Affairs of the “Lost Generation” of English Eccentrics, Messy Nessy Chic
- In 1959, 21 families left Detroit for free land in Alaska. Only 5 could stand the harsh conditions., Timeline
- This woman brought guide dogs to America, and aid to thousands of blind people, Timeline
- In the Montgomery bus boycott, Georgia Gilmore fed workers, MLK, and everyone in between, Timeline
- You’re a completely different person at 14 and 77, the longest-running personality study ever has found, Quartz
- How Donald Trump Could Weed Out Your Community Garden, WNYC
Well, shit.
What I read today March 30
- How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria, Wired
- What the Repeal of Online Privacy Protections Means for You, NY Times
- Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump could stage false-flag terror attack to maintain fanbase amid failing policies, The Independent
- Trump scraps Obama's anti-wage theft protections, The Independent
- When Women Negotiate, Jacobian
What I read today - March 29
- What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?, No Side Bar
- Community Group Needs $250K to Turn Historic Williamsburg Firehouse Into Community Center, Brownstoner
- Super Strategies, Urban Omnibus
- Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies, BBC
- Video: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper , YouTube
- Unfollow, The New Yorker
- Ted Cruz's Law Paper From 1996 Is the Best Argument Against Letting Tech Companies Run Rampant, The Motherboard
What I read today - March 28
- Patti Smith Buys the Reconstructed Home of One of France's Most Beloved Poets, Architectural Digest
- Policies Shift, Neighborhoods Change, but Elementary School Segregation Holds On, City Limits
- US admits it conducted Mosul air strike 'at location' where '200' civilians died, The Independent
- Restoring a Run-Down Convent in Tuscany, NY Times
- Warner & Swasey Observatory – Cleveland, OH – Look to the Skies, architectural afterlife
- The father of American gynecology fought to criminalize abortion in the 1850s, Timeline
- The only woman to win the medal of honor fought for her role in the Civil War, Timeline
- Do developer-owned coffee houses accelerate NYC gentrification?, Curbed
What I read today - March 24
- How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge, Fast Co Design
- Trump’s Populist Mirage, The Atlantic
- White House says maternity care won’t be more expensive for women —if they’re on a family plan, Think Progress
- Montessori Baby Week 16 -- The Butterflies Mobile, the kavanaugh report
what i read today march 22-23
- Some identities don’t need a redesign., Medium / John Warren Hanawalt
- Crisis is Not Just Another Opportunity to Build Your Brand, Medium / Greg Riestenberg
I really don't follow the design world much these days, but think this is quite interesting. Probably, because I don't follow the design world too much since I find intrensic happiness of the un-designed world - United States of Resistance, Print Mag
- Against Branding: Part 1 — Design and Conflict, Design Observer
- Against Branding: Part 2 — Design and Happiness, Design Observer
- How America's Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawai'i, Collectors weekly
- A Sailor’s Life, Inked
- It Took Guts to be the First Victorian Tattoo Queen, Messy Nessy Chic
- The deep roots of profound weirdness, al jazeera
what i read today march 21
- How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps, NY Times
- Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion, The Guardian
- 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus, The Atlantic
- We so rarely hear from women in the grip of addiction, The Guardian
- The Abandoned Garden of Prospect Park, narratively
- My New Chapter Begins, Growing with Plants
- 3 Brilliant Strategies For Navigating The Terrible Twos From My Daughter’s Daycare Provider, Rodale
- How, and why, to switch to a credit union, Brooklyn Based
what i read today march 20
- The Timeless Appeal of Tyra Banks’ Delightfully Unhinged Talk Show, Broadly
- From Codpieces to Dick Pics: How Dating has Changed Throughout History, Broadly
- Lmnopi on Street Art, Gentrification, Her Mission as an Artist & more, Street Art NYC
- New Book Offers a Dash of Hope—and Dose of Reality—for Young Farmers, Civil Eats
What I read today _ March 16
- Forgotten weed stash donated to Goodwill, CNN
- Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science, Mic
- EXCLUSIVE: Many affordable units at Brooklyn development likely to be filled by white families: report, NY Daily News
- The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - march 15
- CityViews: How President Trump Could Hurt NYC’s First-Time Homebuyers, City Limits
- CityViews: Solutions to NYC’s Affordable Homeownership Crisis do Exist, City Limits
- Worst Case for Public Housing Seen in 2 Midwestern Cities, City Limits
- Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut, 99% Invisible
- When Medieval Monks Couldn't Cure the Plague, They Launched a Luxe Skincare Line, Collectors Weekly
- She Lied About Everything, except Marrying Wyatt Earp, Messy Nessy Chic
- Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents, NY Times
- Culture Wars: Trap Music Keeps Atlanta On Hip-Hop's Cutting Edge. Why Can't The City Embrace It? , NPR
- Op-Ed: Azealia Banks and the Double Standard of Mental Illness, Pitchfork
what I read today - March 13
- Katz's & Tourists, Vanishing New York
- Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job, Jezebel
- The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper, Atlas Obscura
- Inside the Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World, Munchies
- The first female automotive designer was also a refugee and a single mom, timeline
- Niihau, Hawaii’s ‘Forbidden Island,’ is closed to outsiders, Boston Globe
- If Scotland leaves, England will lose the Brexit game, Al Jazeera
- Working While Female, Medium
What I read today - March 10
- Calling Bullshit
- Meet the Dodge La Femme, the bonkers car marketed only to women, Timeline
I'd drive this - Wikileaks' CIA document dump will cause a ripple effect, Al Jazeera
"With the CIA hacking tools, black sites, the NSA's mass surveillance programme and a recklessly unpredictable commander-in-chief, the US can no longer tout itself as an exceptional democracy." Ouch. - Now What, Pinch of Yum
- The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush, Jacobian
- The science of why cats like getting into boxes then peering menacingly over the edge, Boing Boing
- The Soviet Communist Origins of International Women’s Day, Messy Nessy Chic
- What Just Happened?! A Review of President Trump’s Seventh Week., The New Republic
Check out the lines underneath hyperlinks, the decenders are cut out <3