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Alison Iven 4/19/20 Alison Iven 4/19/20

what i read today april 19

  • CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK MAY HAVE STARTED AS EARLY AS SEPTEMBER, SCIENTISTS SAY , newsweek

  • 'I Call These People the Modern-Day Rosa Parks': Conservative Shelter-In-Place Protesters Really Think They're Civil Rights Activists, the root

  • Privatize the Post Office? Here's Another Idea, City Lab

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Alison Iven 4/19/20 Alison Iven 4/19/20

What I read today April 15

It's time to talk more seriously about the food supply, CNN

The farmworkers putting food on America's tables are facing their own coronavirus crisis, CNN

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Alison Iven 4/12/20 Alison Iven 4/12/20

What I read today April 12

  • Has Coronavirus Made the Internet Better?, NY times

  • Why Are We All Obsessed With Retro Workouts Right Now?, Vogue

  • ‘If All the Stores Close, We Need Food’: Community Gardens Adapt to the Pandemic, NY Times

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Alison Iven 4/11/20 Alison Iven 4/11/20

What I read today April 10

Eric took Arthur out of the house, and I have some TIME ALONE!!!!

  • How Little Fires Everywhere Expanded the Novel’s Meditations on Motherhood, Vulture

  • Trump Administration Scales Back Paid Leave in Coronavirus Relief Law, NY Times

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Alison Iven 4/10/20 Alison Iven 4/10/20

What I read today March 21

  • A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients, propublica

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Alison Iven 3/21/20 Alison Iven 3/21/20

What I read today march 20

  • What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks?, Smart Air Filters

  • Social-Democratic Denmark Shows How to Respond to Coronavirus, Jacobian

  • Weeks Before Virus Panic, Intelligence Chairman Privately Raised Alarm, Sold Stocks, NPR

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Alison Iven 3/20/20 Alison Iven 3/20/20

What I read today march 16

Still waiting on the baby to make his appearance while the world is getting crazier. It’s a weird time to be pregnant.

  • A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus, NY Times

  • The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them, NY Times

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Alison Iven 3/16/20 Alison Iven 3/16/20

What I read today march 15

  • America Is a Sham, Slate

  • America Is Acting Like a Failed State, The Atlantic

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Alison Iven 3/15/20 Alison Iven 3/15/20

What I read today March 14

  • He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them, NY Times

  • There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill, NY Times

  • The Anxious Hands of New York’s Subway Riders in the Face of the Coronavirus, The New Yorker

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Alison Iven 3/14/20 Alison Iven 3/14/20

What I read today march 13

  • When the World Falls Apart, People Come Together, NY Times

  • The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus, The Guardian

  • The Trump Presidency Is Over, The Atlantic

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Alison Iven 3/13/20 Alison Iven 3/13/20

What I read today March 11

  • Andy Byford Unchained: Train Daddy Reveals How Cuomo Made His Job "Intolerable", Gothamist

  • An Ode to Jane Sanders, Queen of Relatable Style, Vogue

  • What Jane Sanders Is Telling Bernie Sanders About His 2020 Bid, NY Times

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Alison Iven 3/11/20 Alison Iven 3/11/20

What I read today March 4

  • Depth, History, and Reverence: The Intricacies of Bisa Butler’s Quilted Portraits, Vogue

  • Teach basic math skills with these 15 easy math games for preschoolers, Motherly

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Alison Iven 3/4/20 Alison Iven 3/4/20

What I read today march 1

LAST DAY IN THE OFFICE

  • The Passing of C. Lee Calhoun: Southern Apple Hunter, UNCONVENTIONAL STORIES FROM AN APPLE FARMER

  • He Keeps Ancient Apples Fresh and Crisp, NY Times

  • The American restaurant is on life support, The Counter

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Alison Iven 3/2/20 Alison Iven 3/2/20

What I read today Feb 28

  • The mattress landfill crisis: how the race to bring us better beds led to a recycling nightmare, The Guardian

  • The exhausting, lucrative world of childhood sleep consulting, Vox

  • Sleepovers in Slave Cabins Are Helping to Create Healing Conversations, Yes Magazine

  • How Black Culinary Historians Are Rewriting the History of American Food, Yes Magazine

  • The Coronavirus Is Trump’s Worst Nightmare, The New Republic

  • Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response, Foreign Policy

  • Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Historical Society to Merge, NY Times

  • I’m a Parent, and I’m Bracing for Coronavirus, The Cut

To Do:

Make Your Own: Baby Gym
Need dowel rods

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Alison Iven 2/28/20 Alison Iven 2/28/20

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

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Alison Iven 2/27/20 Alison Iven 2/27/20

What I read today Feb 26

  • "Unprecedented and Dangerous": Trump Administration Halts NYC's Most Important Climate Resiliency Study, Gothamist

  • 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

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Alison Iven 2/26/20 Alison Iven 2/26/20

What I read today Feb 25

  • Suze Orman’s advice to investors on the market’s drop: “Rejoice”, CNBC

  • Firefox continues push to bring DNS over HTTPS by default for US users, mozilla

  • DNS over HTTPS Will Give You Back Privacy that Big ISPs Fought to Take Away, EFF

  • A Controversial Plan to Encrypt More of the Internet, Wired

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Alison Iven 2/25/20 Alison Iven 2/25/20

What I read today Feb 24

  • Macrolide Antibiotics Early in Pregnancy Tied to Birth Defects, NY Times

  • Kids Don’t Need to Stay ‘On Track’ to Succeed, The Atlantic

  • The Original Renegade, NY Times

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Alison Iven 2/24/20 Alison Iven 2/24/20

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

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Alison Iven 2/21/20 Alison Iven 2/21/20

What I read today Feb 20

  • Warren Leads an Onslaught of Attacks, Zeroing In on Bloomberg, NY Times

  • Behind Brown’s Beach Jacket – The Complete History, Heddels

  • 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

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