What I read today April 26
- The Movie Date That Solidified J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dislike of Walt Disney, Atlas Obscura
- Oh, Just Harvesting Edible Mushrooms inside an Abandoned Water Park, Messy Nessy Chic
- There used to be salmon as big as golden retrievers in the Columbia River, but dams killed them off, timeline
- Rosie the Riveter is a bogus icon of female empowerment, Timeline
- The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Its Historical Maps, hyperallergic
What I read today April 21
- How We Tummy Time -- Montessori Baby Week 20, the kavanaugh report
- How the 1960s and ’70s Counterculture Queered Fashion, hyperallergic
- The Complicated Legacy of Gertrude Bell, the Englishwoman Who Helped Colonize the Middle East, hyperallergic
this morning was crazy. 6th and 8th ave trains were shut down. eric drove me to work and we stopped to get dim sum.
What I read today April 20
- The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women, The New Republic
- A ‘Members Only’ Public Space in Manhattan? Join the Club, NY Times
- These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements with Art, The Nation
- The Random Quarter That Landed Life Magazine in Court for Indecency, Jezebel
- Why do some NYC landlords leave apartments empty?, brick underground
- The Enemy is Us: The Opioid Crisis and the Failure of Politics, Dissent
What I read today April 19
- Why tax day is a nightmare for freelancers, LA Times
Just paid taxes. Yuck - How to Deal with the Coming L-pocalypse? One Idea is to Ban Cars from 14th Street, City Limits
- Why Did These Lions Eat So Many People?, Gizomodo
- Watch: The Tattoo Artist Changing Women's Lives By Inking Their Breasts, Refinery29
- The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black, The Stranger
- One of Canada’s Biggest Tourist Attractions Was a Set of Quintuplets, Messy Nessy Chic
- Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze, Bloomberg
What I read today April 18
- Songs We Love: Cende, 'What I Want', NPR
Little Dave's band - How America got fleeced by TurboTax, This Week
- How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off, NY Times
- India Mahdavi Blends Hollywood and Paris With a Modern Beverly Hills Café, Architectural Digest
- On the Trail of New York's Greatest Trees, City Lab
What I read today April 17
- Why Your Grandparents Would “Plant by the Signs”, appalachian magazine
What I read today - April 14
- The lost ritual of the Fifth Avenue Easter Parade, ephemeral new york
- True Self, False Self, Medium
- Movement Area with a Roller -- Montessori Baby Week 19, the kavanaugh report
What I read today April 12
- An Artist Reveals a Brownstone Time Capsule With an Extravaganza of Detail in Prospect Heights, Brownstoner
- Unsubscribing from the Culture of Busyness, No Sidebar
- Meet the woman who painted in a one-room shack and became a national treasure, Timeline
- We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability, Harvard Business Review
- Why Googling “Miami Inmates” in South Florida Leads to Their Poetry, hyperallergic
- What ‘White’ Food Meant to a First-Generation Kid, NY Times
- Peruse 1,000-Year-Old Medical Remedies, from Ox Bile to Mandrake Root, hyperallergic
- DeVos Undoes Obama Student Loan Protections, Bloomberg
Squeeze 'em dry!
What I read today April 11
- Introducing Practical Life to Montessori Babies and Toddlers, the kavanaugh report
- Why a Herbarium of 7.8 Million Plants Is One of New York’s Most Valuable Resources, hyperallergic
- Aunt Jemima killed fresh flour. These micro-millers are bringing it back., The New Food Economy
- Has Coffee Gotten Too Fancy?, NYTimes
- Special Ed School Vouchers May Come With Hidden Costs, NY Times
What I read today April 10
- Weaving Together the Story of a Forgotten Pop Artist and Her Rugs, Hyperallergic
- In a controversial show, this photographer revealed middle-class Harlem to the wider world, Timeline
- How One Person’s Small, Brave Compost Pile Changed New York City, Yes Magazine
- Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts, NY Times
- A Young Syrian Architect's Vision For Rebuilding Her Country, Architectural Digest
- It’s Not Just Fox: Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Harassment, NY Times
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