What I read today May 9
- Growing Up in, and Outgrowing, Manhattan, NY Times
<3 the comments - Who Invented Gentrification? A Conversation With The Author Of 'The Invention Of Brownstone Brooklyn', Gothamist
- Swale, the Floating Food Forest on a Barge Opens at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Untapped Cities
- In Kansas City, One Stubborn Cave Won’t Give Up Its Secrets, Atlas Obscura
- The Austrian Immigrant Who Revolutionized Swedish Textiles, Eye on Design
What I read today May 8
- Saving China's abandoned Tulou homes, CNN
- Collected Stories from WWII Veterans Around the World, Lens Culture
- ‘The Ugly American’ was a scathing critique of our bad behavior abroad—and it became a best seller, Timeline
- The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month, Timeline
- ‘Black branding’ — how a D.C. neighborhood was marketed to white millennials, The Washington Post
What I read today may 4
- A Lesson in Following the Child -- Montessori Baby Week 22, the kavanaugh report
- In Trump’s America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition, NY Mag
Sounds like being a woman is a preexisting condition. Plz try to avoid - House Voting on Health Bill: Will Republicans Be Able to Repeal Obamacare?, NY Times
- Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill, NY Times
- Under The New Health Care Bill, Rape Could Be A Pre-Existing Condition, Huffington Post
what I read today may 3
- Your 5-year-old is already racially biased. Here’s what you can do about it., Medium
- A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia, Atlas Obscura
- The Consequences of Amtrak Not Owning Its Own Tracks, Atlas Obscura
I remember learning a shorter version of why we were 12 hours late when my mom and I traveled from Ohio to NYC when I was 16.
What I read today May 2
- Brand to Know: The Kenyan Line That Makes Only One Dress, NY Times
- Parents: You Can’t Control Your Baby’s Digital Footprint, Slate
- What Those Baby Photos On Social Media Can Teach Us About Moms, NPR
- Does sharing photos of your children on Facebook put them at risk?, The Guardian
- Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years, Motherboard
- The Dirt: Clive Blazey, The Planthunter
What I read today May 1
- Teller Reveals His Secrets, Smithsonian
- Shared Destinies: Why Wealth Inequality Matters, Tor
- Makeup vloggers are protesting capitalism, The Outline
I never really understood haul videos anyways - Donald Trump’s Enduring Corruption of the Presidency, New Republic
- Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days, The Guardian
- Ohio's Green Gold, the post athens
- #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement, The New yorker
- The salacious murder of this New York City prostitute changed the American media landscape, Timeline
- The Importance of Montessori Practical Life for Toddlers, the kavanaugh report
What I read today April 28
- Montessori Puzzle Ball - Montessori Baby Week 21, the kavanaugh report
- Trump to review protections on vast nature preserves, Al Jazeera
- How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It, NY Times
- How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All , The Atlantic
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