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Sunday, September 18th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for September 18, 2016:
- Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: 101 #futureofbham
- Charming Doodles by Charles Darwin’s Kids, by @brainpicker (via @FamilyNature)
- Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment, by @cwarzel (via @NiemanLab)
- Finally read and finished the gripping “Homicide” by David Simon: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2c3H7uS
- 9 Learnings from 9 Years of @BrainPickings
- Hoover Dam, built for eternity, by @Elmo_Keep (via @kickpointinc)
- Y’all Connect: Where to start blogging right now
- The Peace of Hopelessness, by Jessie Carson @livingpractice (RT @FamilyNature)
- Bill Gates, Buffett and Oprah Use 5-Hour Rule for Learning, by @MichaelDSimmons
- The comeback of copywriters
- Art, Calif.’s Response to Broken Prison System, by @shelikestowatch (via @18thStreetArts)
- The Agency, by @AdrianChen
- An Exegesis on Spanking Fetishists: @jessicagross talks with @JillianKeenan
- The World Isn’t Safe, But Explore It Anyway, by @DangerousBiz (via @JourneysMagUK)
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
Video: “Always a Family” from StoryCorps
In honor of Michael Trinidad and others lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
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Monday, September 5th, 2016
Video: TED-Ed explains why we (and Canada) Labor Day.
Happy Labor Day!
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Sunday, September 4th, 2016
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Sunday, August 28th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for August 28, 2016:
- On starting at the Birmingham Post-Herald 20 years ago #bham
- Internet Glitch Turned This Kan. Farm into Digital Hell, by @kashhill (via @acearley)
- Want to Work in 18 Miles of Books? First, the Quiz. By @AnnieCorreal
- Revisiting the question of catering to smartphones again
- The dark side of @Guardian comments
- Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From Amazon Cloud Empire, by @CadeMetz (RT @NancyThanki)
- Y’all Connect: Let’s connect on Instagram, y’all …
- How colonial blunder became part of War on Terror by @RafiaZakaria (via @JBhattacharji)
- Vote 2016: Municipal election results for Jefferson, Shelby Counties #bham
- The Minecraft Generation, by Clive Thompson @pomeranian99 (RT @irwin)
- The best TV of 2016 so far: The A.V. Club’s catch-up guide
- How U. of Alabama System funneled $1.4m through “dark money” web, by @ConnorASheets
- Neoliberalism, the ideology at the root of all our problems, by @GeorgeMonbiot
- What Research Says About the Best Profile Picture, by @KevanLee (via @MSUmalaysia)
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Sunday, August 21st, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for August 21, 2016:
- Y’all Connect: Help Baton Rouge. Here’s how.
- The Adolescent Brain – What All Teens Need to Know, by @hey_sigmund (RT @DrMaidenberg)
- Lessons from 26 Years of Web Design by Victor Sorescu @Pixelated_Vic (RT @frantastic__)
- Speaking gigs: Southern Public Relations Federation annual conference, September 2016
- Oral history of “Taxi Driver” for 40th anniversary, compiled by Gregg Kilday @gkilday
- Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex — No One Knows How to Stop Them, by @SarahNEmerson
- Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s “Birmingham Beer: A Heady History of Brewing”
- The Tragic History of RC Cola, by @JeffWellsWH
- Flashback: How I’m listening to improve my communication: An update
- K-pop goes India! Riding the Korean musical wave, by @captbackspace (via @damrita)
- Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, by @VanessaGrigor iadis
- USDA Was Black Farmers’ Worst Enemy. How It Became Ally, by @Ms_SAH (via @cadwego @bittman)
- Mother for Hire, by @RachelAviv
- In the comments, the drama of “Law and Order” unfolds …
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Sunday, August 14th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for August 14, 2016:
- Never read it in h.s., but finally finished “Slaughterhouse-Five”: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2aPxgnq
- Gay Talese’s New Yorker Article Is a Failure of Journalistic Ethics, by @IChotiner
- How Poor Kids Bear the Brunt of Overdue Library Book Fines, by @AarianMarshall
- Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
- The World Changing Ideas of 2016, by Morgan Clendaniel @MClendaniel (via @streamltd)
- Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Child’s University But Don’t, by Ron Srigley
- Y’all Connect – Beyond 1st draft’s 1st sentence: Superior storytelling starts here
- The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
- When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original “Surfers,” by @VinduGoel
- Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Emily Brown’s “Birmingham Food: A Magic City Menu”
- Adventures of Richard Donner & 1st “Superman” movie, by Stephen Galloway (RT @crewless)
- A year ago, Obama commuted sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders (via @splcenter @lisawborden)
- Million-Dollar Murray, by Malcolm @Gladwell
- I Has a Sweet Potato
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Sunday, August 7th, 2016
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Sunday, July 31st, 2016
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for July 24, 2016:
- Just finished terrific “Thinking in Pictures” by @DrTempleGrandin: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/29X8mpt
- Why the Hillary Clinton we see isn’t the one colleagues know, by @EzraKlein (via @jayrosen_nyu)
- A Young Athlete’s World of Pain, and Where It Led, by @TimRohan (via @IamDivs)
- Y’all Connect: The shape of stories to come
- The decade-long poaching crisis, by @VFelbabBrown and Bradley S. Porter (via @usunvie)
- I Found My Father’s Eulogy in Junk Food, by Kaitlyn Greenidge @kkgreenidge
- Flashback: How to make an awesome slide deck, and why you don’t need it
- The Dragnet, by @RussellBrandom (via @kickpointinc)
- 2016 @BeardFoundation Book, Broadcast and Journalism Winners
- Flashback: As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve
- “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the Nexus of Cinematic Language, by @FilmCritHulk
- The Love Song of Robert Bentley, Alabama’s Horndog Governor, by Jason @Zengerle
- Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves, by @NinaBernstein1
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves (via @patrikfrauzem)
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
Video: Independence Day fireworks over Walt Disney World
Happy birthday, America!
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
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