What I read today, Oct 16
- They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground, LA Times
- Ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer writes open letter to Trump, Kaepernick, NFL and America, ESPN
- Blink Cincinnati takes over downtown, OTR streets: PHOTOS, Cincinnati Business Courier
- Obama picks genius hip-hop portraitist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official presidential portrait, Quartz
- Stop Microwaving Your Sponges, Immediately, Apartment Therapy
- San Francisco Is Choking On A Thick Haze Of Smoke. These Are The Health Risks., Buzzfeed
- Practical Life with Babies -- Montessori Baby Week 45, the kavanaugh report
- Why Ugly Sneakers Are Back: A Theory, Man Repeller
- Lena Dunham Is Tired of Talking About Whether Her Endometriosis Will Keep Her from Having Kids, Glamour
- A mother uses a similar tone with babies, no matter the language, PBS Newshour
- Epidurals Do Not Prolong Labor, NY Times
- Amazon is making it easier for teens to use their parents’ credit cards, Washington Post
- Amber necklaces and teething babies, Science or Not
- Cutting Teeth, Part 1: The Fascinating History of Teething, chad hayes md
- Cutting Teeth, Part 2: Teething Today, chad hayes md
- Amber Waves of Woo, Science-Based Medicine
- If You Drive Less Than 10,000 Miles a Year, You Probably Shouldn't Own a Car, City Lab
The comments are the best part - Rotten Apples That Will Last Forever, Atlas Obscura
- The Burmese Star Tortoise Is Back From the Brink of Extinction, Atlas Obscura
- An Abandoned School Becomes A Place for Art, Community and Home, Design Sponge
- Braddock, Pennsylvania Out of the Furnace and into the Fire, Monthly Review
- A bird’s-eye portrait of what was once a thriving steel town, PBS Newshour
- This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania, The Nation
- So Many Houses, So Little Money: How to Manage the Abandoned Properties of North Braddock, PA?, Belt Magazine
- The Movement of #MeToo, The Atlantic
- To Mayim Bialik: The "Luxury" Of Not Being A "Perfect 10" Did Not Prevent My Rape, Bust
What I read today - Oct 12
Alison Iven – Women Who Ride, Cicada Wheels
- Brooklyn man, 91, dies after home invaders tie up him and his 100-year-old wife, Daily News
- Protests, Diverging Views at City Council Hearing on East Harlem Rezoning, City Limits\
- Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?, City Limits
- Two Words Are Missing From the Economic Development Conversation, Next City
- Moxxly Acquired to Redesign the Breast Pump Experience, DesignerFund
!!!!! - This Just In : Jess Feury’s Textiles, Jungalow
- How UNH Turned A Quiet Benefactor Into A Football-Marketing Prop, Deadspin
- When Cartography Meets Disaster Relief, City Lab
- Trump To Puerto Rico: Drop Dead, American Conservative
- Trump’s Mishandling of the Puerto Rico Disaster, American Conservative
What I read today - Oct 11
- Eminem Delivers a Critique as Vulgar as the President, The Atlantic
- Eminem Got on National TV and Snatched Donald Trump’s Edges at the BET #HipHopAwards, The Root
- The Importance Of Prioritizing Motherhood In Your Child’s First 3 Years, Mother Mag
- Food Program for Poor Families Tries to Boost Breastfeeding Rates, City Limits
- Rohingya Recount Atrocities: ‘They Threw My Baby Into a Fire’, NY Times
What I read today - Oct 10
- Ugh, What's With These Generational Color “Trends”?, architectural digest
- A Sea Scum Bloom Off Australia Can Be Seen From Space, Atlas obscura
- W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900, brain pickings
- The Destruction From the California Fires in Photos and Maps, NY Times
- Why Do We Celebrate Columbus Day and Not Leif Erikson Day?, Nat Geo
- Brookfield to buy Houston-based investment firm focused on energy infrastructure, Houston Biz Journal
I was told today that I didn't understand a garden member's "black vernacular." So while I suspect she's saying that I'm not listening to her because she's black (which is untrue), I wanted to know more about "black vernacular." Onward!
- African American Vernacular English
- What 'ThugLife' Can Teach Us About Twitter, AdAge
- PDF: Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: Communication and Cultural Performance on “Black Twitter,” Sarah Florini
- White Writing Black?, carosene
- African American Vernacular English: A Language History Lesson, carosene
- The Case for Black English, The New Yorker
- Understanding the ‘cultural not remedial’ aspect of Black Vernacular English, Black Youth Project
- STUDY FINDS BLACKS' ENGLISH INCREASINGLY DIFFERENT, NY Times
What I read today Oct 6
- Chariot, The First Of The L Train Shutdown 'Bro Buses,' Has Arrived, Gothamist
- Sorry Transformed Wife women aren't dumb you'd like, aussa lorens
- Oakland Approves 'Safe Havens' for Homeless Camps and Services, East Bay Express
- In and Out Work -- Montessori Baby Week 44, the kavanaugh report
- A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes, vox
What I read today - Oct 5
- CVS Taps A Design Legend To Reinvent The Prescription Label. Next Stop: The Pharmacy, Fast Co
- Found: An Orchid With Large Flowers and a Scent Like Champagne, Atlas Obscura
- The Gruesome History of Making Human Skeletons, Atlas Obscura
- Mom Talk: Untruths About Pregnancy, Mother Mag
- Why 'Plague Season' Is A Big Worry In Madagascar This Year, NPR
- The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter, the intercept
- Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC., NY Times
- Listen: How to Make a Fella Feel Relaxed, The Longest Shortest time
- Listen: How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Racist, The Longest Shortest Time
- How To Talk To Your Mixed Race Kids About Race, The mash up americans
- Country focus - status of knowledge of Madagascan plants, research gate
- Pictures of "Bluebeard's Wives" Tableau From the Early 20th Century, vintag.es
- Senators, Pass the Ban on the Abortion of Fetuses Capable of Feeling Pain, National Review
- Now that She’s Pregnant, Should Khloé Kardashian Get Married?, Acculturated
- This brilliant 22-year-old is the reason you can get great literature in ‘quality paperback’, Timeline
- A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn’t, Washington Post
- The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts, City Lab
What I read Oct 4
- Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started., Washington Post
- Unexpected New Plan for Domino Brings in Light With Glass Box Nestled in Landmarked “Ruin”, Brownstoner
- ANTIQUE SEED PACKETS
- Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives, The Root
- Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?, NPR
- I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing, NPR
- Black-ish Taught Me More About Slavery in 22 Minutes Than My Entire Education (Plus, That Roots Cartoon Was Epic), The Root
- Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case, The New Yorker
What I read today - Oct 3
- The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”, The New Yorker
- The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found, The New Yorker
- What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?, hyperallergic
- It’s lit! How film finally learned to light black skin, the guardian
- Designer of Papyrus font reacts to Ryan Gosling’s SNL takedown, It's nice that
- Branded in Memory
- This Book is a Planetarium (<-it is! it is!), Kelli Anderson
her work is the bee's knees and so lovely - Madagascar Plans to Amend Discriminatory Law That Fuels Statelessness, VOA News
What I read today - OCT 2
- Mailing Babies: When It Was Legal to Send Children Through the U.S Postal Service in the Early 20th Century, vintages
- Flower Arranging at Home, the kavanaugh report
- Let Little Kids Spell Things Terribly , lifehacker
- By age 3, inequality is clear: Rich kids attend school. Poor kids stay with a grandparent, washington post
- The Rise of Picture-Perfect Motherhood, Bazaar
What I read today - Sept 29
- My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest, Yes Magazine
- When LBJ’s closest aide was caught in a gay sex sting, the president caved — the first lady stood up, Timeline
- The most modern woman of Medieval Europe was a queen by birth, a warrior and murderer by legend, Timeline
- IKEA Buys TaskRabbit—the Silicon Valley Startup That Saves You from Doing It Yourself, Architectural Digest
- 10 Tips For Living Minimally Longterm, Design Sponge
- Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up, Bazaar
What I read today - Sept 28
- ‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car., NY Times
- ACLU and New York Law School Report Gives Historical Context to the City’s Persisting Food Deserts, Edible Manhattan
- Peach Jam with Brown Sugar and Bourbon, Food in Jars
- How-To: Propagating Native Plants with Nancy Shaw, The Plant Hunter
- David Holmgren’s Permaculture Revolution, The Plant hUnter
- Permaculture, Wikipedia
- How America's Most Integrated School Segregated Again, City Lab
- The Sky-High Ambition of Manolo Blahnik, The New Republic
- With Liberty and Sans Serif for All, Brand New
What I read today Sept 20
- 5 Ways To Breathe New Life Into Vintage Pieces, Design Sponge
- Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter, The American Conservative
- The coming-of-age con, Aeon
What I read today Sept 19
- All the Lies About the Origins of ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’, Atlas Obscura
- The Long and Bumpy History of Corduroy, Atlas Obscura
The article titles are getting more punny - Macramé is the knotty trend millennials Instagrammed back from the dead, Timeline
- Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants, Washington Post
The headline is a little mean spirited
what I read today Sept 18
- How Motherhood Affects Creativity, The Atlantic
- A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France, The Atlantic
- Dime Savings Bank’s Historic Facade Remains as Additions Demo’d to Prep for First Supertall, Brownstoner
- Hillary for America Design 2016
Impressive body of work - For Centuries, People Celebrated a Little Boy’s First Pair of Trousers, atlas obscura
- Why Houston Housing Is Poised to Get More Expensive and Unequal, City Lab
- The Juggalo March Is Not a Joke, City Lab
- The End Of The High Line Era, Fast Co
- The Suburb of the Future, Almost Here, NY Times
- Torrid’s NYFW Show Reaffirmed Fashion’s Disdain for Fat People, Racked
what i read today sept 15
- ‘Fixer Upper’ Couple Blasted On Social Media Over New Target Line, HuffPost
I watched a lot of this show during my maternity leave. Personally, I can't figure out what difference it makes as to which bathroom I use. - The World’s Most Mysterious Medieval Manuscript May No Longer Be a Mystery, atlas obscura
- The History of Passport Photos, From ‘Anything Goes’ to Today’s Mugshots, atlas obscura
- Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For, NY Times
- Message for Internet Society, from the other side of the wall, enjambre digital
- Flamingos In The Men's Room: How Zoos And Aquariums Handle Hurricanes, NPR
- An Encyclopedia of New York City Transit Design, CityLab
- What Urban Doctors Need to Understand About Patients' Health, CityLab
- In the 1920s, this man brought marriage counseling to America to save the white race, Timeline