• Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind, The Atlantic

• Inside the Champagne Vaults of the Brooklyn Bridge on the 135th Anniversary [Photos], Untapped Cities
• BLACK MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE U.S., Mother Mag
• The Legendary Met Opera's History Is More Compelling Than Fiction, architectural digest
• Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?, The Guardian
• B-52 Bomber Radicalism, Jacobin
• Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s, hyperallergic
• The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change, hyperallergic

• The Follower Factory, NY Times
• The Crazy Way Teens Are Hiding Their Imperfections Online: Finstagram, Elle
• The hipster is dead, let's start an anti-authenticity movement, Campaign
• Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic is taking over the world, The Guardian
• How This Paul Taylor Dancer Knew It Was Time To Retire, Dance Magazine
• Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries, The Guardian
• For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies, WaPo
• Inside the World’s Only Sourdough Library, Atlas Obscura
• How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners, Atlas Obscura\
• I Was Forced to Carry an Unviable Pregnancy to Term. This Is My Diary, Broadly
  Hard read
• WE AREN’T THE WORLD, Pacific Standard
  Fascinating

• Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon, NBC News
• LISTEN: Episode 80: Age and Authenticity, Design Observer
• The Future of College Is Facebook Meme Groups, NY Mag
  I'm gonna go with "kids these days" and shake my head on this one
• The 'Transit-Oriented Teens' Are Coming to Save Your City, City Lab
• ‘Ope!’: The All-Purpose Expression of Midwestern Politeness, Chicago Mag
  hahhaa I think i say this all the time!
• I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor, Vice
• The Age of Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture, Medium

• Bushwick Residents March to Block New DeKalb Monolith, Village Voice
• The Curse of an Open Floor Plan, The Atlantic
• The Open Secret of Anti-Mom Bias at Work, NY Times
  The comments are such a bummer
• The Radical Self-Reliance of Black Homeschooling, The Atlantic
• Dolls That Nurture Boys’ Empathy, NY Times
• Video: The Ecstatic Empathy of Motherhood, The Atlantic

• Department of Finance creates a taxing nightmare for nonprofits, NY Daily News
• The L Train Shutdown Scenario Just Got a Whole Lot Worse, Village Voice
• Cleaning Up Canal Street, Jeremiah's vanishing new york
• The Gentrification of Canal Street, NY Times
• Single Moms Talk About Raising Children Alone, Broadly

• We Must Speak Up Against Israel's Slaughter in Gaza, Vice
• Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silence, The Guardian
• The Bronx Is Blooming, but for Whom?, Village Voice
• How I Learned Not to Call 911, Village Voice
• A FEW MONTESSORI FRIENDLY FAVORITES FROM 15 TO 18 MONTHS, the kavanaugh report
• Babies would rather talk to other babies than listen to your baby talk, Quartz

• The place I call home no longer feels safe., WaPo

• Splish, Splash and Pedal Harder, NY Times
• The Childbirth Photos Instagram Didn't Want You to See, Bazaar
• What's The Subway Etiquette For Emotional Support Hens?, Gothamist
  Gosh, I can't explain it, but I really find this woman annoying. Actually, I find almost all plant-instagramers annoying
• Model and her pet hen can't bear to be apart, NY Post

• The Enduring Influence of Ikat Fabric, from Oscar de la Renta to Contemporary Design, hyperallergic

• MENSTRUAPPS – How to turn your period into money (for others), chupadados
• Mother in a click: pregnancy as a jackpot for the Datasucker, chupadados
• Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?, The new Republic

• How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression, Atlas Obscura
• A 101-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Is Teaching Girls to Ink for Independence, Atlas Obscura
• I Have a Few Questions for Gina Haspel, NY Times
• How do you move mountains of unwanted weed?, The Guardian

• Are sensory bins Montessori or not?, the montessori notebook
• The Launch of HogTree, UNCONVENTIONAL STORIES FROM AN APPLE FARMER
• Benefits of Bearded Iris: Strong Stems & Resilient Flowers, Horticulture
• Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why, New Food Economy
• Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, The Plant hunter

Recipe to try:

• Savory Chickpea Pancakes, Munchies
• How to Make Paneer Cheese, Food in Jars

• The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine, Vox
• The New Era of Abstinence, NY Times
• Why Hawaiians Place Plants Before a Wall of Hot Lava, Atlas Obscura
• Reading American History Through Handkerchiefs, Atlas Obscura
• Giving Met Gala Garms the Art Historical Treatment, Sleek Mag
• A Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs of Native Americans Goes Online, Hyperallergic
• Newly Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History, Hyperallergic
• Meet Kippee, A Foster Hen Living in a Brooklyn Apartment with 700+ Plants, Modern Farmer
• Growing Community, Gardens, and Land Trusts: Raymond Figueroa, Jr. in the South Bronx, Welcome2TheBronx
• Oh Hi, Gothamist
• So You Want to Date a New York Museum, The New Yorker
• I’m Sorry To Report Instagram Is Bad Now, Buzzfeed News
• Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?, Literary Hub

• Upscale parents want to send their kids to Bed-Stuy school, NY Post
• I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye, The Atlantic

• MOM TALK: RAISING KIDS IN A ZERO WASTE FAMILY, Mother Mag
• 3 Women on What It’s Like to Have an Extreme Habit, Man Repeller
• Sessions terminates US policy that let legal pot flourish, AP
• What’s the point of an MA in design anyway?, It's Nice That
• “Dial down the feminism” creator Alex Bertulis-Fernandes on the aftermath of going viral, It's Nice That
• The Comments on My Selfies Are Different Now That I’m a Mom, Man Repeller
• Boy Scouts Will Drop the ‘Boy’ in Its Namesake Program, as It Welcomes Girls Next Year, NY Times
• Bill Nye's Tips for Getting Kids Excited About Science , Life Hacker
• The Singular Magic of Maira Kalman : At home with the beloved writer and illustrator., The Cut

• SHIFTING YOUR LANGUAGE IN DIFFICULT MOMENTS, the kavanaugh report

• Cities 101: The Explanation Behind Those Thermometer Stickers on Subway Ceilings, Untapped Cities
• THE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY, the kavanaugh report
• The Depression-Era Glassware That Came in Boxes of Oatmeal, Atlas Obscura
• The Bygone Baguette Mailboxes of French Polynesia, Atlas Obscura
• The Uncanny Delights of the World Balloon Convention, Atlas Obscura
• DON’T BELIEVE THIS FEARMONGERING ABOUT PESTICIDES, The Outline
• WHITE FEMINISTS IDENTIFY SO STRONGLY WITH THE HANDMAID’S TALE BECAUSE IT IS A SHOW ABOUT WHITE WOMEN IN SLAVERY., Wear your voice mag
• The real Madagascar — via the world’s most dangerous road, FT
• Why Food Waste Is Not a Solution to Hunger, Yes Magazine
• LISTEN: Car Births, Call-In Style, longest shortest time
• Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem., NY Times
• Michelle Wolf Sets Off a Furor at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, NY Times

• The Diva Who Grew Her Own Exotic Kingdom, Messy nessy chic
• The Age of 'Shotgun Cohabitation', The Atlantic
• The Secret to Magic Mornings? Put the Kids to Work, NY Times

• 5 IDEAS TO TRY WHEN FAMILY IS FAR AWAY, the kavanaugh report
• How to Make Lip Balm That'll Get You High, Broadly
• New Yorkers could get reserved parking spots under new bill, Curbed
• THE BUSINESS OF BEING BOHO: FINDING COMMON GROUND, Jungalow
• A Restaurant Row Blooms in Brooklyn, including the Japanese Storefront Nana, Forbes