what i read today aug 30
- South Asia Is Also Experiencing The Worst Flooding In Decades And The Photos Are Horrifying, buzzfeed
- Fire Ants Are Banding Together Into Stinging Horror Rafts to Survive Hurricane Harvey's Flood, science alert
- The 5 Types of ‘Becky’, the root
- Baltimore’s Push to Solve Its Affordable Housing Crisis With Community Land Trusts , yes magazine
- 29 States Just Banned Laws About Seeds, mother jones
- Intersectionality Ain’t For White Women, wear your voice mag
- We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs, teen vogue
- Hurricane Harvey, and Public and Private Disaster in Houston, the new yorker
what i read today aug 29
- Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege, the root
- A Tanker Just Made It Across the Arctic With No Icebreaker for the First Time, atlas obscura
- These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism, fast co
- What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas and Grandpas of South Korea Know , yes magazine
what i read today aug 28
- 20 Genius Hacks And Tips To Make Traveling With A Baby More Bearable, buzzfeed
- The Urban-School Stigma, the atlantic
- After 16 Years of War, Afghanistan Still World’s Heroin Supplier, the conservative american
- Younger adults more likely than their elders to prefer reading news, pew research
- State of the Blog Union 2017: How The Online World Has Changed, Design Sponge
- Equity Investing is Expensive, Risky, and Slow—So Why Are All These Designers Trying to Become Venture Capitalists?, Eye on Design
what i read today aug 24
- My Last Conversation with My Father, the new yorker
- Call it “Boring” or “Aggressively Plain,” The Cut‘s Elegant Redesign Matches Its Editorial Ambition, eye on design
- The Storytelling Ironwork of New Orleans, atlas obscura
- The Remains of 3 More Long-Missing Hikers Have Been Found in the Alps, atlas obscura
- Documenting the Disappearance of America’s Most Toxic Ghost Town, hyperallergic
what i read today - aug 23
- Fried Green Tomato Hornworms, the daily meal
- Herbalist, 94, Lets Nature Heal , Tulsa World
- The Unexpected Ending of ‘Nasty Baby’ and the Invisible Violence of Gentrification, Flavorwire
- Forest School: The Benefits Of An Outdoor Education, Mother mag
- How To Teach Your Kids Authenticity (Just Like The Danes Do), Mother mag
- Why Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids' Grades, the atlantic
- How to Talk to Kids About Death, According to Picture Books, The New Yorker
- The 'Fitbit for fertility' celebrates a milestone: A baby, USA Today
- Late Bloomer, Lenny
- Working to Close the Breast-Feeding Gap, NYTimes
- Forget love and marriage before baby: New styles of parenting are revolutionizing the American family, Salon
“Radical Self-Reliance” Is Killing People., Medium
- Village Voice, vanishing newyork
- How I Finally Found My Personal Style At Age 36, design sponge
- What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Design*Sponge, design sponge
what i read today - aug 22
- How Our Conversation Around Breastfeeding Hurts Black Infants, the establishment
- People Who Have Never Lived In Poverty Should Stop Telling Poor People What To Do, the establishment
- Small Business Spotlight: Claudette Brady, owner of Slip Stitch Needlecraft, bed stuy blog
- Fun Maps: Which Brooklyn Neighborhoods Have the Best Internet Service?, untapped cities
- Nabisco's X-Rated Toy Scandal of 1971, mental floss
- Experiments on this infant in 1920 were unethical, but became a staple of psychology text books, Timeline
what i read today - aug 21
- This Designer Built A Secret Studio That Hangs Beneath An Underpass, Fast Co Design
- The Haunting Magic of Ghost Buildings , Messy Nessy Chic
- Documenting America’s Long, Venerable Tradition of Roadside Dinosaurs, Atlas Obscura
- Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?, Atlas Obscura
- How 7 Sisters Made a Fortune off Their Rapunzel-Like Hair, Atlas Obscura
- Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It, NYT
- New York City Guarantees a Lawyer to Every Resident Facing Eviction, City Lab
- Texas Women Will Now Be Forced to Take Out 'Rape Insurance' for Abortion, Broadly
- It's Been Almost 100 Years and Women Still Don't Have the Tampons We Deserve, Broadly
what i read today - aug 16
- Get Washington’s statues off their high horses, washington post
- Urban Farmer Annie Novak Might Just be the Coolest Grower We Know, martha stewart
- The Case for Reparations, the atlantic
what i read today - AUG 14
- Object Permanence Box -- Montessori Baby Week 36, the kavanaugh report
- ‘The Munsters’ Reboot In Works At NBC From Jill Kargman & Seth Meyers, Deadline
- Man who's collected over 9,000 beer cans in 40 years is finally getting rid of them - and it's down to his wife, Mirror
- How Katonah was moved for New York City's water system, Curbed
- The Phenomenon Of “Crown Shyness” Where Trees Avoid Touching, this is colossal
- After Another Artists’ Enclave in Williamsburg Is Sold, Tenants Live in Uncertainty, hyperallergic
- White People: I Don’t Want You To Understand Me Better, I Want You To Understand Yourselves, The Establishment
- So, about this Googler’s manifesto., Medium
- Mic Investigation: About 90% of US House members don’t pay their interns, Mic
What I read today - Aug 11
- How to Stop Gentrification, New Republic
- 9650 Marcy Rd, Zillow
<3 dream house - Parenting Is Not a “Job,” and Marriage Is Not “Work”, New Republic
- Most Mothers Feel Judged, With Families Often the Worst Critics, NY Times
- Four Castaways Make a Family, NY Times
- Can We Retire the Wine-Mom Phenomenon?, parent.co
- Robin Williams and the Myth of “Battling” Depression, Flavorwire
What I read today - Aug 9
- A Specialized Graphic Design Bookstore Comes to Brooklyn, Design Milk
This guy went to my university. He's doing well, but it makes me feel like I'm not doing enough! - Required Reading: How They Decorated, Inspiration from Great Women of the 20th Century, Remodelista
- AIGA Design Census 2016: Investigating Design’s Gender Pay Gap, AIGA OC
- So you want to live in a beautiful mid-century home…. how do you feel about Ohio?, Miss Moss
- Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day, NPR
This is essentially the exercise my midwife told me to do since my abs are seperated from pregnancy - Times Square Phone Booths Call Up Immigrants’ Stories, hyperallergic
- B&H Photo Workers Protest Outside New York Mayor’s Mansion, hyperallergic
- Louisiana Law Restricting Immigrants’ Right to Marry Struck Down, courthouse news service
- See BUST's Own Callie Watts' Mermaid Witch Handfasting Photos, Bust
pfft, wife - City shafting local dollar vans, licensing Cali startup as L train alternative, Brokelyn
what i read today - August 8
- Housing, not warehousing, Crains
- New City Council bill would create a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for New York, 6 sqft
- My life without gender: 'Strangers are desperate to know what genitalia I have', the guardian
- I Quit Showering, and Life Continued, the atlantic
- The Loveliest Living Fossil, Hoeffler and Co.
- When Straight Couples Use The Term ‘Partner’, Role Reboot
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?, PS Mag
- Why Isn't Sex Education a Part of Common Core?, PS Mag
- In the 1990s, America took thousands of immigrant orphans from LA and dumped them in Tijuana jails, Timeline
- Hey Mommy Bloggers - Thanks. , rachel held evans
- Jen’s Richmond Reno: The Kitchen, jen chu design
- Jen’s Richmond Reno: How Many Different Ugly Ceilings Can One House Have?, jen chu design
what I read today - August 7
- The Secret Life of the City Banana, NY Times
- Why Americans Are Cursing More Than Ever, Atlas Obscura
- How Far Do Roller-Grill Hot Dogs Travel?, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Aug 3
- Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half, NY Times
- Anyone With A Library Card Can Now Stream Thousands Of Feature Films, Including The Criterion Collection, Gothamist
- Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals, WaPo
- Trump Has Launched A "Real News" Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law, Buzzfeed
- How Dutch Wax Fabrics Became a Mainstay of African Fashion , hyperallergic
- The Curious History of “Tribal” Prints, Slate
- The Names & Meaning of The WaxPrint Designs on Our African Print Fabrics., naaoyooquartey
- Japan’s ‘crow tribe’ is the reason everyone started wearing black in New York, Timeline
- The Misfit, The New Yorker
What I read today - Aug 2
- Democracy is dying – and it’s startling how few people are worried, The Guardian
- These 5 Neighborhood Maps Show Roots of Gentrification, Next City
- New York’s tradition of uncapping fire hydrants to beat the heat, 6sqft
- Hollywood-style ‘Brooklyn!’ sign is trivializing, doesn’t belong in Watchtower icon’s place, Brokelyn