What I read today Feb 27
Justice Dept. Establishes Office to Denaturalize Immigrants, NY Times
Pointed Pins: How Pundit Jill Wine-Banks Sends Political Messages with Her Brooches, Collectors Weekly
Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing, Atlas Obscura
How This Fitness Studio Puts Black Women First, Refinery 29
What I read today Feb 26
What Do Grown Unschoolers Think of Unschooling? IV in Series, Psychology Today
The Challenges of Unschooling: Report III from the Survey, Psychology Today
What Leads Families to “Unschool” Their Children? Report II, Psychology Today
The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I from a Large Survey, Psychology Today
Known for Playful Design, Popular Kids Doc Tribeca Pediatrics Opens in Bed Stuy, Brownstoner
What I read today Feb 21
MOM TALK: WHY WE ALL NEED TO READ DIVERSE BOOKS TO OUR KIDS, Mother Mag
What Happens To Your Mail-Order Mattress After You Return It, Five Thirty Eight
The Radicalism of Warren’s Unapologetic Aggression, The New Republic
5Pointz Developer Loses Appeal, Must Pay $6.75 Million To Whitewashed Artists, Gothamist
To Know Mayor Pete, Look at His Top Adviser’s Underreported Past, Vice
Lis Left Standing, NY Mag
What I read today Feb 20
Warren Leads an Onslaught of Attacks, Zeroing In on Bloomberg, NY Times
For the Madagascan Aye-Aye, the Rule of Thumb Comes in Two, Atlas Obscura
Philadelphia Project Reduces Brewery Waste, Feeds Hungry Backyard Chickens, Next City
YES, AMY KLOBUCHAR IS TO BLAME FOR MYON BURRELL’S UNJUST CONVICTION, The Appeal
How Michael Bloomberg Owned New York Media, The New Republic
Bloomberg Craps Out in Vegas, National Review
WHEN I WAS A PRO-LIFE HYPOCRITE, Samantha Field
Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists, The Guardian
A Deep Dive Into the Intense World of the r/MealPrepSunday Subreddit, Vice
In Appalachia, Forest Farming is Protecting Wild Botanical Plants, Civil Eats
What I read today Feb 19
Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir., NY Times
Democrat Pete Buttigieg overstated pledges of support from black leaders, public figures, ABC News
Are Brooklyn’s Minority-Centered Spaces Headed For Legal Trouble?, Bklynr
Men are showing up to the Wing and women are pissed, NY Post
After Cooper Hewitt Director Is Ousted, Six Trustees Resign in Protest, hyperallergic
Is this really coming back? UI Design Trends, abduzeedo
Neumorphism the right way — A 2020 Design Trend, Medium
Entering rabbit hole…..Sketch vs Figma, Adobe XD, And Other UI Design Applications, Smashing Magazine
We’re stuck on Windows machines at the office, so Sketch has been unavailable for use in UI/UX designs but we’ve recently received Adobe Cloud (super duper late). Want to start trying out XD…
What I read today Feb 18
Jury awards $265 million to Bader Farms in lawsuit against Bayer, BASF, The Counter
The Brands Have Finally Won: I Absolutely Must Have the KFC Crocs, Vice
She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway., NY Times
9 Small, Science-Based Family-Life Upgrades that Prepare Kids to Live Kind, Doing Good Together
What I read today Feb 11
Bernie Sanders Files To Run As A Democrat — And An Independent, NPR
Is It Bernie’s Party Now?, Politico
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism, Food and Wine
THE “OLD LADY OF HALSEY STREET” (1935), The Brownstone Detectives
What I read today Feb 7
MTA Opening New Nostrand Avenue Subway Station Entrance, Patch
Bout time! That stop is crazyWHY PROGRESSIVE MILLENNIALS CAN’T STAND PETE BUTTIGIEG, Mel Magazine
The Ominous Rise of Toddler Milk, The Atlantic
Why Grocery Stores Have Tiny Kid-Size Carts, The Atlantic
Trump Called for Paid Family Leave. Here’s Why Few Democrats Clapped., NY Times
Over 150,000 Botanical Illustrations Enter the Public Domain, Hyperallergic
In the 1970s, The Detroit Printing Co-op Showed the Revolutionary Potential of Design, AIGA Eye on Design
What I read today Fab 6
Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees, NY Times
Registration is open for NYC’s public pre-K, 3-K programs — if you can get through, Chalkbeat
The Culinary Legacy of Brooklyn’s First Free Black Community, Atlas Obscura
8 States Are Trying to Make the Medical Treatment of Trans Kids a Crime, Vice
Honeynut Squash Is a Tiny Squash with a Big History, Bon Appetite
What I read today Feb 5
What I read today Jan 30
New York’s New Broadband Plan Hopes to (Finally) Address the Digital Divide, Next City
DOES YOUR COMMUNITY BOARD REFLECT YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORS? FIND OUT., The City
a list for Walela and their comrades: on disability, ableism, and dialectics of liberation, dispatches from liminality
Paula White Says Video About ‘Satanic Pregnancies’ Was Taken Out of Context, NY Times
Satanist’s Open Letter Reply to Trump’s Spiritual Adviser’s Comments Regarding Satanic Pregnancies, patheos
What I read today Jan 29
Bicycles, Gender, and Risk: Driver Behaviors When Passing Cyclists, The Gender Policy Report
Meet The Designer Who Makes 'Mrs. Maisel' Look So Marvelous, NPR
Open House, N+1
So good
”Here she is giving a tour of her gleaming apartment... I lean in, looking for books, paintings, some sign of a creative and uncontrolled urban life, of conflict and imperfection, but there are none. Everything in the apartment is new and white.”These are the paid leave policies gaining traction in Washington, Motherly
What I read today Jan 28
The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America, Atlas Obscura
Why Trees Are the Most Reliable Historians of Early America, Atlas Obscura
Inside Bloomberg's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan, City Lab
Insect Jewelry of the Victorian Era, JSTOR Daily
How a Long-Lost Indian Disco Record Won Over Crate Diggers and Cracked the YouTube Algorithm, Pitchfork