Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sam Kronick has a bunch of rocks arrayed in front of him on a raised desk in his Oakland studio. He’s an artist and his plan is to sketch the rocks, but not with pen and paper. He and his artistic partner Tara Shi are going to do a 3D scan of them so that…
SundayReview | Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living By RUTH BADER GINSBURGOCT. 1, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her Supreme Court nomination hearings in 1993. Credit Stephen Crowley “Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court justice?”…
An Alternative Plan Michael Kimmelman, New York Times architecture critic Train stations are more than just a bunch of platforms for getting places. They’re portals. New York used to have two of the world’s most ennobling entrances, announcing the city in all its ambition and glory, Grand Central Terminal and the…
Only women would sign up for this much crap. Okay first, allow me to check my privilege so you don’t have to: I am a white woman with a college education. I am married. I live in a beautiful little town in the mountains. I have a career I genuinely like. I am one lucky…
The wistful refrain among religionists has for some time now been the same: the religiously unaffiliated will return to religious practice one of these days. New numbers from a survey jointly conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service, however, might crush whatever hope is left about luring Nones back into the…
At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.” “Where did you find this?”…
Photo: Ken Gillespie Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. Dear Polly, I’m writing to you because I feel like I’ve been working SO hard on self-acceptance and loving my rougher edges and thought I was making real progress — but somehow I keep finding myself stuck in the same hole as always. I don’t know what…
F your “F” When I was 32 I was diagnosed with a massive learning disability. It took eight weeks of intense, tiring, embarrassing testing and observation. When my assessment advisor stepped into his office to deliver my results he opened a fat file, pulled out a report and asked me what I wanted to hear first:…
In 2017, shortly after the next president is inaugurated, thousands of newly appointed federal officials will struggle with the same existential question: What do I wear to my first day of work? I understand their anxiety, having languished over wardrobe during eight years of federal service and pondered the fashion choices of my male colleagues…
Thanks to Affordable Care Act insurance reform, prescribed contraception must be covered by all insurance plans without a co-pay, meaning the majority of Americans now have access to primary forms of birth control—their “plan A” contraception. As nearly everyone who has ever had potentially procreative sex knows, however, the need for back-up is crucial to peace of mind, whether or…