What I read today, Oct 16
- They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground, LA Times
- Ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer writes open letter to Trump, Kaepernick, NFL and America, ESPN
- Blink Cincinnati takes over downtown, OTR streets: PHOTOS, Cincinnati Business Courier
- Obama picks genius hip-hop portraitist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official presidential portrait, Quartz
- Stop Microwaving Your Sponges, Immediately, Apartment Therapy
- San Francisco Is Choking On A Thick Haze Of Smoke. These Are The Health Risks., Buzzfeed
- Practical Life with Babies -- Montessori Baby Week 45, the kavanaugh report
- Why Ugly Sneakers Are Back: A Theory, Man Repeller
- Lena Dunham Is Tired of Talking About Whether Her Endometriosis Will Keep Her from Having Kids, Glamour
- A mother uses a similar tone with babies, no matter the language, PBS Newshour
- Epidurals Do Not Prolong Labor, NY Times
- Amazon is making it easier for teens to use their parents’ credit cards, Washington Post
- Amber necklaces and teething babies, Science or Not
- Cutting Teeth, Part 1: The Fascinating History of Teething, chad hayes md
- Cutting Teeth, Part 2: Teething Today, chad hayes md
- Amber Waves of Woo, Science-Based Medicine
- If You Drive Less Than 10,000 Miles a Year, You Probably Shouldn't Own a Car, City Lab
The comments are the best part - Rotten Apples That Will Last Forever, Atlas Obscura
- The Burmese Star Tortoise Is Back From the Brink of Extinction, Atlas Obscura
- An Abandoned School Becomes A Place for Art, Community and Home, Design Sponge
- Braddock, Pennsylvania Out of the Furnace and into the Fire, Monthly Review
- A bird’s-eye portrait of what was once a thriving steel town, PBS Newshour
- This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania, The Nation
- So Many Houses, So Little Money: How to Manage the Abandoned Properties of North Braddock, PA?, Belt Magazine
- The Movement of #MeToo, The Atlantic
- To Mayim Bialik: The "Luxury" Of Not Being A "Perfect 10" Did Not Prevent My Rape, Bust