What I read today - Nov 3
- Slice of History, Harpers
- This niche generation within the Baby Boom is a highly coveted—and persuadable—voting bloc, Timeline
- During Childbirth, Enduring the Patriarchy Was the Hardest Part, Yes! Magazine
I'm reading the book Birth as an American rite of passage, and often I say to myself "No, that can't happen any more," since it was written in the early 90s and my birthing experience wasn't technocratic. But then I read articles like this, and realize that unwanted interventions do still happen.
What I read today - Nov2
- What Boredom Does to You, nautilus
- Time to Be Honest About the Fear That’s Getting in Your Way, NYTimes
- What happened when I made my students turn off their phones, aeon
- The miracle of compound interest can also apply to your career, quartz
- Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining, Reuters
- DNAinfo and Gothamist Are Shutting Down, NY Times
What I read today - Nov1
- These photos of growing up in the Bay Area suburbs tell a story of innocence and disaffection, Timeline
- WHY AREN’T PRO-LIFE GROUPS OUTRAGED BY THE SHACKLING OF PREGNANT INMATES?, Wear your Voice
- Unapologetically Fat: A Challenge to How We See Women’s Bodies, Yes! magazine
- Honda reissues classic Super Cub models, celebrates 100 million production units, New Atlas
- Linda Nochlin, Feminist Art Historian Who Changed the Game, Dies at 86, Hyperallergic
- North America’s Largest Witchcraft Collection Has Its First Major Exhibition, Hyperallergic
- Vintage Halloween Cards Are the Stuff of Nightmares, Hyperallergic
- What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries, Hyperallergic
- What’s the Secret to Bohemian Style? Designer Justina Blakeney Tells All!, Wit & Delight
- Inside The AMNH's Most Beloved Halls... Before They Lose Their Unique '70s Vibe, Gothamist
- AIM Was Perfect, and Now It Will Die, The Atlantic
What a sweet tribute to old tech - Newly Released Footage Shows 20,000 American Nazis Rallying At Madison Square Garden, Gothamist
What I read today - Oct 31
- These Beauty Pageant Contestants Gave Out Facts About Women's Rights As Their Measurements, Buzzfeed News
- What It's Like to Grow Up with Elite Neo-Nazis, Vice
- When a Drowned Woman’s Face Became the Muse of Paris, hyperallergic
- Tomi Lahren’s Disrespectful Flag Costume Highlights the Hypocrisy of Whiteness, The Root
- Why Conservatives Blame Poverty on the Poor, New Republic
- The White-Minstrel Show, National Review
- Chicago Designer Offers a Model for Repurposing Closed Public Schools, Next City
- Multiple Deaths Reported as Driver Careens Down Bike Path in Manhattan, NYTimes
I have a friend from college who is an artist and keeps referring to her work as "witchy." It irks me because I don't feel like she's a practicing witch, or someone even knowledgeable about witchcraft. Also, timely, because Halloween.
- The Real Reason Women Love Witches, The Establishment
- Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft, The Guardian
- The Spiral Dance, Wikipedia
- Women Artists Are Channeling The Magic Of The Feminine Occult, HuffPost
- Hysteria, Witches and the Wandering Uterus: A Brief History -- Or Why I Teach "The Yellow Wallpaper", KCET
What I read today - Oct 27
- Chores, teamwork and high expectations: The 15 habits that raise responsible kids, Motherly
- MTA Announces New Electronic Fare System to Replace NYC’s , Untapped Cities
- Arts preview: Gerdeman has his “Revenge”, Columbus Alive
- A Great Teacher, Illustrated, NPR
- When a Student Says, ‘I’m Not a Boy or a Girl’, NY Times
- Please don’t tell your kids they can’t dress as Moana this Halloween, Quartz
- The gender pay gap, The Economist
- Mindfulness for Children, NY Times
- This Mom Wants To Break Down The Stigma Around Sharing Pregnancy News Early, HuffPost
- Now we know why babies shouldn't sleep face down, Science Daily
- Here's How Mothers Around the World React When Their Babies Cry, Time
What I read today - Oct 26
- Top five regrets of the dying, Guardian
Depressing... - Spend More Time Alone, Cal Newport
- Cities are not the future, Medium
- Investigation Alleges Haribo Gummies Are Made Using Slave Labor, Munchies
- $1 bounty for each 'We Buy Houses' sign, offers W. Philly lawyer, Philly.com
- Fun Maps: Interactive Map Shows NYC in the 1980s, Untapped Cities
- 80s.NYC
Time suck - Hurricane Sandy five years later: Rebuilding in Breezy Point, Curbed
- Epic Ink: How Japanese Warrior Prints Popularized the Full-Body Tattoo, Collectors Weekly
- Lessons Learned from LA Clothing Maker & Style Icon: Jesse Kamm, Wit & Delight
What I read today - Oct 25
- One of Standing Rock's Most Important Landmarks Is Headed to the Smithsonian , Splinter
- Financialization of Single-Family Rentals: The Rise of Wall Street’s New Rental Empire, kcet
- Full Transcript: Jeff Flake’s Speech on the Senate Floor, NY Times
- “All the Queens Houses”: Architecture Exhibition on Queens, NYC Explores Identity and Diversity, Untapped Cities
- How An Apple Alum Found Her True Calling–In Knots, Fast Co Design
- I Left Social Media for a Week. This is What Happened., Wit & Delight
- The Coolest Girl You Know Probably Uses a Flip Phone, Matter
- A Beginner's Guide To Finding A Therapist, Digg
- LinkNYC kiosks will now display historic photos of NYC neighborhoods, Curbed
What I read today- Oct 24
- 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
What I read today - Oct 23
- 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
What I read today - Oct 20
- 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
What I read today - Oct 19
- '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
What I read today - Oct 18
- 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
What I read today, Oct 17
- 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
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