Do You Want to Be Pregnant? It’s Not Always a Yes-or-No Answer, NY Times
Among the Vitamin K ‘Anti-Vaxxers’, NY Review of Books
Why the UK’s largest body of pediatricians will no longer take money from baby-formula companies, Quartz
Sometimes, Parenting Is Boring, NY Times
Teens Are Going Around Their Anti-Vaxxer Parents by Doing Their Own Research Online, GQ
This 2-Year-Old Has a Better Art Career Than Most MFAs, The Cut
WHAT BRETT KAVANAUGH’S DISHONEST ANTI-ABORTION DISSENT REVEALS ABOUT HIS SUPREME COURT AGENDA, The Intercept
Kindara: My First UX Case Study, Medium
I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins.
- Paul Dirac
haven’t been reading so much lately because I’ve been concentrating on a full website and business plan for my birthwork.
How to Be More Empathetic, NY Times
Cities Aren’t Built for Parents, The Atlantic
FAVORITES AT 25 MONTHS - ART SUPPLIES, the kavanaugh report
LISTEN: The Room of Requirement, This American Life
What Happened When a Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall, Medium
The Upper East Side Gets a Rap Tribute on SNL Thanks to Leslie Jones, NY Mag
Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data, Bloomberg
New York passes Child Victims Act, allowing child sex abuse survivors to sue their abusers, CNN
I Tried on 'Genderless' Clothes and Was Extremely Disappointed, Broadly
A Priceless Archive of American Architecture Publishing, City Lab
The ‘Marie Kondo Effect’ Comes at a Weird Time for Thrift Stores, City Lab
A Bohemian’s Guide to Greenwich Village, New York, a Century Ago, Messy Nessy Chic
These Macabre Guillotine Earrings Were All the Rage During France’s “Reign of Terror”, Cult of Weird
New York’s Secret Caribbean Kingdom (and its Queen), Messy nessy Chic
Haunting Remnants of a Former NYC Orphanage Revealed at Upper East Side Construction Site, Untapped Cities
The Tiny Blond Bible Teacher Taking on the Evangelical Political Machine, The Atlantic
The agony of ending a wanted late-term pregnancy: three women speak out, The Guardian
All We Did Was Survive, Desiring God
I feel down a rabbit holeAFTER BEING MISIDENTIFIED IN 'VOGUE,' MUSLIM JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST AND SPEAKER NOOR TAGOURI HAS A MESSAGE, Fashionista
Anti-Abortion Movement Rebrands as 'Pro-Science,' Despite Existing Science, Broadly
I Failed the Covington Catholic Test, The Atlantic
Already Exhausted by a 15-Month-Old’s Behavior, janet lansbury
Common ground, Aeon
Speaking Up Without Tearing Down, Teaching Tolerance
New York Has Finally Updated Its Archaic Abortion Law, NY Mag
Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes, The Concourse
Supreme court allows Trump trans military limit to be enforced, The Guardian
Upper East Side Restaurant Nello Bans Single Women From Eating At The Bar, Guest of a Guest
The 'Right to Repair' Movement Is Gaining Ground and Could Hit Manufacturers Hard, Fortune
Teenage Diver Finds Tons Of Golf Balls Rotting Off California, NPR
8 Books On Motherhood + Feminism, The Longest Shortest Time
Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Asking About Citizenship on Census, Colorlines
The rise of mending: how Britain learned to repair clothes again, The Guardian
Thousands more migrant children separated under Trump than previously known, The Guardian
The Other Talk, The New York Times
The New Mom Uniform of Park Slope, NY Times
‘It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.’ Why Some Boys Can Keep Up With Girls in School., NY TImes
What People Actually Say Before They Die, The Atlantic
Marie Kondo’s Haters Are Low-Key Starting to Get ‘Racist’, Next Shark
Why new moms have scary thoughts about their babies, Today’s Parent
Sasheer Zamata Reworked Louis C.K.’s Leaked Parkland-Kids Joke in Her Own Stand-up Set, Vulture
Senators Were Laughably Conflicted About Whether To Share Cardi B's Video On The Government Shutdown, Buzzfeed News
Amazon is Coming to The Bronx; Will Open a ‘Last Mile’ Warehouse in Hunts Point, Welcome 2 The Bronx
When my Amazon Prime is up for renewal, I think I’ll cancel it. Makes me sad to give money to a company that’s so shitty to NYC but happy/apprehensive about seeking local sources for thingsWhen Crafts Become Activism: A More Beautiful Movement, Yes Magazine
Flashback to my capstone projectI’m so excited because I love mess! , The Outline
Solar-Powered Slugs Hide Wild Secrets—But They’re Vanishing, Nat Geo
Trump’s Gentrification Scheme to Enrich Real Estate Developers, The New Republic
The One Issue the Left and Right Can Agree On, The New Republic
The Exhausting Minimalism of Tidying Up, The New Republic
What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth?, The New Republic
WATCH: Amy Sedaris Reveals Her Magical Greenwich Village Apartment | Interior Lives
Marie Kondo totally changed my outlook on decluttering and bringing 'joy' to our home, Motherly
Amid Debate Over Designated Injection Sites, Dwindling ‘Safe’ Options for NYC’s Opioid Users, City Limits
The Story Behind John Lennon's Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V, Vintag.es
What Reformers Learned When They Visited 1830s Brothels, JSTOR Daily
I’M A SENIOR TRUMP OFFICIAL, AND I HOPE A LONG SHUTDOWN SMOKES OUT THE RESISTANCE, The Daily Caller
I’m a white teacher who chose a high-poverty school for my daughter. Here’s why., Chalkbeat
The Death of the Sick Day, NY Times
The Instagram-Husband Revolution, The Atlantic