• 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

• Mr. Trump’s Attack on Birth Control, NY Times
• The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette, NY Times
• The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero, The Nation
• The Intellectual Roots of the War against Columbus, National Review

• 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

• 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

• Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started., Washington Post
• Unexpected New Plan for Domino Brings in Light With Glass Box Nestled in Landmarked “Ruin”, Brownstoner
• ANTIQUE SEED PACKETS
• Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives, The Root
• Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?, NPR
• I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing, NPR
• Black-ish Taught Me More About Slavery in 22 Minutes Than My Entire Education (Plus, That Roots Cartoon Was Epic), The Root
• Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case, The New Yorker

• The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”, The New Yorker
• The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found, The New Yorker
• What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?, hyperallergic
• It’s lit! How film finally learned to light black skin, the guardian
• Designer of Papyrus font reacts to Ryan Gosling’s SNL takedown, It's nice that
• Branded in Memory
• This Book is a Planetarium (<-it is! it is!), Kelli Anderson
  her work is the bee's knees and so lovely
• Madagascar Plans to Amend Discriminatory Law That Fuels Statelessness, VOA News

• Mailing Babies: When It Was Legal to Send Children Through the U.S Postal Service in the Early 20th Century, vintages
• Flower Arranging at Home, the kavanaugh report
• Let Little Kids Spell Things Terribly , lifehacker
• By age 3, inequality is clear: Rich kids attend school. Poor kids stay with a grandparent, washington post
• The Rise of Picture-Perfect Motherhood, Bazaar

• My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest, Yes Magazine
• When LBJ’s closest aide was caught in a gay sex sting, the president caved — the first lady stood up, Timeline
• The most modern woman of Medieval Europe was a queen by birth, a warrior and murderer by legend, Timeline
• IKEA Buys TaskRabbit—the Silicon Valley Startup That Saves You from Doing It Yourself, Architectural Digest
• 10 Tips For Living Minimally Longterm, Design Sponge
• Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up, Bazaar

• ‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car., NY Times
• ACLU and New York Law School Report Gives Historical Context to the City’s Persisting Food Deserts, Edible Manhattan
• Peach Jam with Brown Sugar and Bourbon, Food in Jars
• How-To: Propagating Native Plants with Nancy Shaw, The Plant Hunter
• David Holmgren’s Permaculture Revolution, The Plant hUnter
• Permaculture, Wikipedia
• How America's Most Integrated School Segregated Again, City Lab
• The Sky-High Ambition of Manolo Blahnik, The New Republic
• With Liberty and Sans Serif for All, Brand New

• How to Protest Without Offending White People, The Root
• Collaborative University of Cincinnati project wins top school award at International Contemporary Furniture Fair , UC Magazine

• Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem, The Root
• Here's How to Help People in Puerto Rico Right Now , Jezebel
• This 84-Year-Old Puerto Rican Grandmother Helped Transform Riverside Park, DNAinfo

• When the Subway Fails, Riders Scream Into the Twitter Abyss, NY Times

• With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife, NPR
• Who Will Save These Dying Italian Towns?, NY Times
• Our Weaning Table -- Montessori Baby Week 42, the kavanaugh report
• A Simple Guide for Transitioning Your Baby to Solids, Mother Mag

• 5 Ways To Breathe New Life Into Vintage Pieces, Design Sponge
• Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter, The American Conservative
• The coming-of-age con, Aeon

• All the Lies About the Origins of ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’, Atlas Obscura
• The Long and Bumpy History of Corduroy, Atlas Obscura
  The article titles are getting more punny
• Macramé is the knotty trend millennials Instagrammed back from the dead, Timeline
• Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants, Washington Post
  The headline is a little mean spirited

• How Motherhood Affects Creativity, The Atlantic
• A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France, The Atlantic
• Dime Savings Bank’s Historic Facade Remains as Additions Demo’d to Prep for First Supertall, Brownstoner
• Hillary for America Design 2016
  Impressive body of work
• For Centuries, People Celebrated a Little Boy’s First Pair of Trousers, atlas obscura
• Why Houston Housing Is Poised to Get More Expensive and Unequal, City Lab
• The Juggalo March Is Not a Joke, City Lab
• The End Of The High Line Era, Fast Co
• The Suburb of the Future, Almost Here, NY Times
• Torrid’s NYFW Show Reaffirmed Fashion’s Disdain for Fat People, Racked

• ‘Fixer Upper’ Couple Blasted On Social Media Over New Target Line, HuffPost
  I watched a lot of this show during my maternity leave. Personally, I can't figure out what difference it makes as to which bathroom I use.
• The World’s Most Mysterious Medieval Manuscript May No Longer Be a Mystery, atlas obscura
• The History of Passport Photos, From ‘Anything Goes’ to Today’s Mugshots, atlas obscura
• Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For, NY Times
• Message for Internet Society, from the other side of the wall, enjambre digital
• Flamingos In The Men's Room: How Zoos And Aquariums Handle Hurricanes, NPR
• An Encyclopedia of New York City Transit Design, CityLab
• What Urban Doctors Need to Understand About Patients' Health, CityLab
• In the 1920s, this man brought marriage counseling to America to save the white race, Timeline

• A Brief History of Knolling, AKA Overhead Photography, designsponge
• Do Artists and Designers Have an Obligation To Be Political?, designsponge
  Totally offputting reading "Art is disruption." Why must everything be phrased in a capitalist, techy sort of way to give value to something?
• De Blasio Is Getting Four More Years, Now What’ll He Do With Them?, Village Voice
• Here Is Everything Wrong With 'Bodega,' the Startup That Destroys Bodegas, CityLab

• No, I’m from New York, The New Yorker
• Historic Clinton Hill Mansion, One-Time Civil War Veterans’ Spot, Coming Down for Apartments, brownstoner
• Where the Mayoral Candidates Stand on Housing, city limits
• City Council Approves De Blasio’s 2nd Neighborhood Rezoning, city limits
• Greater than Ever?, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
• Surveying Post-Bloomberg New York With Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, NY Mag
• Drugmakers Slam Ohio AG's Suit Over Opioid Crisis, Law360
• Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Scar, The American Conservative
• The rise of Trump isn't all about racism, The Week

The First White President, The Atlantic

• Our Guide to Electing a Brooklyn DA (based on their commitment to ending mass incarceration), Medium
• Thinx Founder Wore Breast Pumps Around Burning Man and Shared Milk With Burners, Slate
• Do Conversations About Race Belong in the Classroom?, The Atlantic
• Women Are Taking the Economic Hit From America’s Child Care Deserts, Slate
• Child Care Desert. org 
• One of the most common questions in American small talk is considered rude in much of the world, quartz
• Cure Yourself of Tree Blindness, ny times