• New Standards for New York’s Underground, Print Mag
• Solange tells Evening Standard magazine “dtmh” after it removes braids from cover shot, It's Nice That
• Town in Iceland paints a 3D pedestrian crossing to slow traffic, The Poke
• I'm a CEO: Here's how I taught my daughter, from a young age, to thrive as a professional, Quartz
• One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end, Medium
• I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets, The Guardian
• Why You Shouldn't Buy a "New" Book on Amazon, Lifehacker
• Mapping the U.K.’s Many, Many Names for Streams, Atlas Obscura
• Artifact From Caligula’s Ship Found to Be a Coffee Table in New York Apartment, NBC News
• Seattle’s Last Umbrella Shop Is Closing, Atlas Obscura
• Ancient Trees Were Bafflingly Complicated, and Scientists Don’t Really Know Why, Atlas Obscura
• Millennials Won't Destroy Your Law Firm. Can They Save It?, American Lawyer
• New York City penthouses were originally built for servants, until rooftop gentrification moved in, Timeline
• This ghost tree has been floating vertically in Crater Lake for more than 100 years, Timeline
• These gritty pictures show Times Square’s journey from porn mecca to family friendly, Timeline
• The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare, Fast Co

• A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe, The Guardian
• Don’t Talk to Your Sons About Sex – Talk About This Instead, Parent Co
• The case for starting sex education in kindergarten, PBS Newshour
• HOW TO CREATE A MONTESSORI-INSPIRED HOME, Mother Mag
• Buying a House Helped Me Uncover My Feminism, Clever
• The Sioux Chef is Reclaiming North America’s Indigenous Cuisine, Civil Eats
• Hit the History Books (and Movies), Americans!, National Review
• The Only Way to Rebuild the Marriage Culture, Acculturated
• Donald Trump's misleading comments on Obama's calls to fallen soldiers' families, Politifact
• How We Subsidize Suburbia, American Conservative
• Moving Victorians in the Fillmore, Found SF

• Cultured Butter
• There’s No Recipe For Growing Up, Buzzfeed
• A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO 8 MAJOR STYLES OF YOGA, gaiam
• 14 Styles Of Yoga Explained Simply, mindbodygreen
  I took my first yoga class in 12 years since I totaled my car in college. I loved the Ashtanga classes I took back then, but am taking a restorative one since I'm not very in shape, and it's close to work!
• The 'Mutant Rabid Gentrification Machine' Comes For Elderly East Village Woman Paying $84 A Month, Gothamist
• Motherhood Is Hard to Get Wrong. So Why Do So Many Moms Feel So Bad About Themselves?, Time
• When Your Teenager Asks, ‘Did You Smoke Weed?', NY Times

• 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia, The Guardian
• THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF MEDIA USE BY CHILDREN AGED 0-8, Mother Mag
• The Rise of the Like Economy, The Ringer
• Mom, Interrupted, New Republic
• Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Local Elections for the Left, New Republic
• This Philly Transformation Plan Rethinks the Neighborhood School, Next City

• Bad Stroller Habits Even Great Parents Have: Strollers And Infant Development - Part 1, Cando Kiddo
• What Type of Stroller Should I Get? Strollers and Infant Development - Part 2, Cando Kiddo
• Deconstructing the High Line, Jeremiah's Vanishing new york
• See How 16 Designers Pulled Out All the Stops to Decorate a Brownstone for the Heights Showhouse, Brownstoner
• 20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They're scared., Vox
• Civics Education Testing Only Required In 9 States For High School Graduation: CIRCLE Study, HuffPost
• #FlyingWhileBlack: Harvard Law School Student Booted From American Airlines Plane With Infant, The Root

• A Fig Tree Dies in Brooklyn, and in Other Boroughs, NY Times
• A Black Woman Created the “Me Too” Campaign Against Sexual Assault 10 Years Ago, Ebony
• One Girl’s Re-Examination of Sweet Valley High: Double Love, Wit & Delight
• #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism, The Root
• Women’s work is still work, The Outline
• Bordeaux Sells in de Blasio’s Brooklyn, The New Yorker
  The "animated community-garden meeting" is Patchen Community Square
• Photos: al-Qaeda-linked militants kill more than 320 in Somalia truck bomb attack, Vox
• Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina, Atlas Obscura

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mr. Trump’s Attack on Birth Control, NY Times
• The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette, NY Times
• The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero, The Nation
• The Intellectual Roots of the War against Columbus, National Review

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ‘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

• How to Protest Without Offending White People, The Root
• Collaborative University of Cincinnati project wins top school award at International Contemporary Furniture Fair , UC Magazine

• Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem, The Root
• Here's How to Help People in Puerto Rico Right Now , Jezebel
• This 84-Year-Old Puerto Rican Grandmother Helped Transform Riverside Park, DNAinfo