• Pothos Vs. Philodendron, House Plant Journal
• When Is a Pothos Not a Pothos?, New Pro Containers
• FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective, Arts Technica
• The Forgotten Bohemian Queen of the Paris Art World: Leonor Fini, Messy Nessy Chic
• Butterflies Remember What They Learned as Caterpillars, Wired
• Life in the Native American oil protest camps, BBC
• Native Americans Protest New Oil Pipeline In North Dakota, NPR

• The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees, NPR
• City should not trust private equity firms to build affordable housing, Crain's
• Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated, Brain Pickings
• Candy brands mourn Gene Wilder with tweets, DigiDay
• To Bond With Your Co-workers, Take Out the Headphones and Blast Happy Tunes, NY Mag
• Goodbye, Seller's Market. Price Growth Cools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, DNAinfo
• The Forgotten Millennials, The New Republic
• The Race to Study a Dying Sign Language Before It Disappears, NY Mag
• 18 New York Post Anthony Weiner Headline Puns, Ranked, Wired
• Urban Agriculture and the New Meaning of “Eating Local”, Vogue
  I apprenticed at this farm in Brooklyn. Annie's facebook has been blowing up with photos from this shoot.
• Making Modern Toughness, NY Times

 

Pretty Cool

• Sage Project

• A Community Garden Became an Alternative to Juvenile Detention, City Lab
• The Cost of Holding On, NY Times
• The Last of the Granny Witches, Appalachian ink
• Appalachian Granny Magic, Witch Vox
• In the ’70s, She Motorcycled Around the World. Today, She’s Fashion’s Unlikely New Muse., NY Times
  I don't particularly care that Chloé is basing clothes off Anne-France Dautheville's history because I'll probably never wear them. But I like that she did it because she wanted to and set her ego down. I've been feeling like Franny lately...
• The 2016 Presidential Election, According to 8-Year-Olds, NY Mag

• The Ballad of Big Freedia: How the New Orleans Bounce Icon Was Betrayed By Her City’s Housing Crisis, Pitchfork
• Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink, Quartz
• If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work, Quartz
  I made a macrame plant hanger yesterday. I feel pretty proud of myself

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• Rush Limbaugh warns that federally paid 'lesbian farmers' could invade your town, The Daily Dot

• Mud Mavens: Mud Girls Founder Jen Gobby, Dwell
• This Study Got People to Make Huge Life Decisions by Flipping a Coin, NY Mag
  Alex said he used to live his life by flipping a coin. It starts with the big stuff and then you can't make a decision without flipping a coin. But the premise is good. It's better to take action than submit to the status quo.
• How Peter Thiel Killed Gawker, Jacobian
• 7 Dream-Killing Habits (and How to Break Them), The Change Blog
  Ugh. FML
• What I Think Every Time I See an Airbnb Renter in My Neighborhood, Next City
• ‘I wasn’t crazy’: Homeless woman proves the U.S. government owes her $100,000, National Post
• The lingering effects of NYC's racist city planning, Hopes & Fears

• In Defense of Villainesses, Tor.com
• How the Olympics Lost Millennials, The New Republic
• Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims, Atlas Obscura

• Only 20 Percent Of Voters Are ‘Real Americans‘, FiveThirtyEight
• The Trump–Pence Logo Was a Yuge Missed Opportunity, Slate
  I went to college with this guy.
• Straight Edge Women Describe What It's Like to Go Totally Sober, Broadly
• NYC’s Freedom Tunnel Gets Spotlight in the Book “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York”, Untapped Cities
• Inside The Playlist Factory, Buzzfeed
• Bed-Stuy Smoke Shop Suspected of Selling K2 Closed by Court Order, DNAinfo

• Red Hook Ferry Service Will Officially Land at Atlantic Basin, Curbed
• The Psychology of Why Americans Are Afraid of Historically Low Crime Levels, NY Mag
• The Case Against Having a Backup Plan, NY Mag
• Beyond native: How the NY Times plans to turn T Brand Studio into a full-fledged agency, DIgiday
• New Photos of NYC’s First Residential Urban Farm at Urby Staten Island, 6sqft
• Photos Reveal the inside of NYC’s Washington Square Arch, Untapped Cities

• Solving All the Wrong Problems, NY Times
• Mugwort: A Wild Beauty, Flower Folk
• Herbs For Depression: Eight Herbalists Share Strategies, Herb Geek
• Apple’s new design style in iOS 10 is a statement on accessibility
• Experimental Research Studio: Jamaica Bay, Urban Omnibus

• The Surprisingly Resilient History of IGA, Which Gave Small Towns Groceries, Atlas Obscura

• Amazon’s New Tree-House Offices Are Silly. They’re Also Great for Workers., NY Mag
  Amazon has a horticulturist on staff. Nuff said.
• 'Wrong side of history': Brands remain (mostly) silent on #BlackLivesMatter, DigiDay
• Goats: The New Dogs, NY Mag
• Why did Google get rid of the company behind Pokémon Go?, recode
• Why Women Led Anti-Suffrage Campaigns Against Themselves, Atlas Obscura
• Forever forward, Bernie Sanders
• What is K2? The Drug Behind The Mass Overdose in Bed-Stuy Explained, DNAinfo
• Sharing Your HBO Go or Netflix Password Is Technically a Federal Crime, Mic
• The Card Maker Who Brought the Joker Into the World, Atlas Obscura
• The Curious History of Animals Interfering with the Tour de France, Atlas Obscura
• For The Record, Huffington Post
• The Pokemon Go effect: Agencies pile on the craze, DigiDay
  Half tempted to download the app and see what it's all about. But then I realize I really don't care and have other things to do in life. Fav quote: "...the game is skinned to be relevant to my life and the city I live in." because it made me roll my eyes
• Design Better Forms, Medium
  Makes me wanna scream DUH at the world
• Bed-Stuy Bodega Raided By City Sheriffs After 33 People Overdose on K2, DNAinfo

• The Strange Perils of Running a Novelty Item Empire, Atlas Obscura
• What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?, Atlas Obscura
• How Your Vagina Is Supposed to Smell, Broadly
• Why Everyone in Madagascar Is Making Jokes About Pineapple , Global Voices
• True-ish Grit, Real Life Mag
• Exploring Northern Central Park: A History Told Through Rocks and Hills, Urban Omnibus

• The Brave Sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara, National Geographic
• Daylily – a Forager’s Delight with 4 Edible Parts, Leda Meredith
• The dying breed of craftsmen behind the tools that make scientific research possible, LA Times

• Questions to Ask Yourself When Reading About Design, Subtraction
• Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary, Brain Pickings
• The $15 Minimum Wage Is Dangerous, Jacobian
• The 1904 horse auction house in the East Village, ephemeral new york
• This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile Soil, Modern Farmer
• Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up, NY Times
• Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York, The Guardian
• An Analysis of Quality-of-Life Summonses, Quality-of-Life Misdemeanor Arrests, and Felony Crime in New York City, 2010-2015
  I only read the summary, but the "analysis has found no empirical evidence demonstrating a clear and direct link between an increase in summons and misdemeanor arrest activity and a related drop in felony crime."
• The Unknown French Horticulturist Who Made Lilacs Happen, Atlas Obscura
• Celebrate Unusual Holidays With Poland’s Youngest Stamp Designer, Eye on Design
• The New York Times Magazine Design Director Gail Bichler on Staying Impartial and Politically Charged Covers, Eye on Design
• Kellogg’s Cereal as Dining Event? Welcome to the Experience Economy, Wall street journal
• Whole Foods to start sharing POS data with Nielsen, Food Navigator USA
  I bet this is a trial with Infor. Still a little sad I didn't get that job...
• Pool Rules: No Running, No Eating and, Three Times a Week, No Men, NY Times
• The oldest white oak tree in the country is dying — and no one knows why, The Washington Post

• K2 Use Reaches 'Epidemic' Levels at Bed-Stuy Intersection, Locals Warn, DNAinfo
• How Mary Norris, the New Yorker's 'Comma Queen,' became a video star, Digiday
• New Owners May Close Waldorf Astoria for Three Years for 1,100-Room Condo Conversion, 6sqft
• Brexit will cause UK food prices to rise, farmers warn, Independent

• Trump Lagged Far Behind Clinton in May Fundraising, Bloomberg
• Donald Trump Claims He Never Said Orlando Victims Should Have Been Armed — But He Did, Mic
• What to Know About the Supreme Court's Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt Abortion Case, Mic
• Donald Trump’s Secret ‘Public’ Gardens Gave Him Extra Height at Trump Tower, 6sqft
• How to Talk Your Friends and Loved Ones Out of Supporting Donald Trump, NY Mag
• The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories?, Atlas Obscura
• 'She Didn't Say Vagina': Sex Ed in Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool, Broadly
• Inside Facebook's Totally Adorable, Kind of Racist Mixed Race Baby Community, Broadly
• ‘Unloaded’ Minds Are the Most Creative, NY Mag
• How Townes Van Zandt’s “Lungs” veers from Platonic epistemology to magic realism, AV Club
  One of Alex's self-professed "favorite songs ever"

• Schmear Campaign, The New Republic
• Immigrants Explain What Shocked Them About American Culture, Vice

• Steiner files plans for Wegmans building at BK Navy Yard, The Real Deal
• Why More Illustrators are Embracing Motion Design + Taking GIFs Seriously, Eye on Design
• CityViews: City Giving Away Land With Little Public Discussion, City Limits
• Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants, Harvard Business Review
• 10 Extremely Precise Words for Emotions You Didn’t Even Know You Had, NY Mag
• A Biological Anthropologist Says That the Perfect First Date Is Pretty Simple, NY Mag
• The Sausage Index: Which Dating Apps Have the Most Dudes?, Pricenomics
• Sacramento pastor, amid backlash, defends sermon praising Orlando killings, LA Times
• The right response to Donald Trump? A media blackout., The Washington Post
• Here's How Straphangers Shut Down a Man Harassing 2 Muslim Women on Monday, DNAinfo
• Eastern U.S. needs ‘connectivity’ to help species escape climate change, UW Today

Misc

• Cinesift – A handy way to find great movies by platform

• The Colorful Secret Of The Pea Aphid, NPR
  The kids worked to find bugs and then locate them in my bug book Last night. This lead to a rabbit hole of wanting to keep the book updated when new bugs are discovered including the wasps last year and aphids which are currently infesting the plum and apple trees in the garden. 
• Prestigious Joffrey Ballet School Faces Bankruptcy After Ruthless Rent Hike, Curbed
• How Hangovers Helped Bring Us the Two-Day Weekend, NY Mag
• What If The Food Industry Ended Monoculture Farming?, Food + Tech Connect
• There are 2,000 empty restaurants during the day in New York — and this startup is trying to do something about it, Business Insider
  I thought this article was going to be about restaurants creating a shared works space for aspiring chefs and cooks and food product entrepreneurs. 
• 2016 Food Awards, Southern Living
  The packaging I created for True Ewe in Alabama won a Southern Living Award!
• Citigroup closes on $1.8B buy of Tribeca HQ from SL Green, The Real Deal
• 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in New York City Food Policy (Class of 2016), NYC Food Policy Center
  People I should google later to see what organizations they are in. A disappointing fact: They are all around my age... Feeling late to the party!
• Cult Following, The New Republic
• Virgo and Scorpio
• The Tyranny of Taste, The New Republic
• The Ad Campaign that Convinced Americans to Pay for Water, Pricenomics
  When I visit Ohio, I can never find seltzer. Perrier is a poor replacement and makes me feel like an asshole, but I want that fizz!
• Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again, Pricenomics
• Brands are counseling the young and the traumatized through their #QuarterlifeCrisis, DigiDay
• How An 1918 Author Introduced the World to the Concept of Female Pleasure, Atlas Obscura
• Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History', Atlas Obscura
• How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws, Atlas Obscura
• Who’s Afraid of Occupy? The John Oliver Show Erases Debt Resistance, Debt Collective
• US to cut water monitoring because of Puerto Rico debt, The Washington Post
• The Forgotten Fetishwear Company of 1920s Paris, AnOther

I think I may be Upper Middle brow for my choice of avocado in my salad and solid non-fiction and "better novel" reading habits