Sunday, February 14th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 14, 2016:
- Y’all Connect: Our next two speakers of 2016 are …
- When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist, by Deborah Copaken @dcopaken (RT @KimhCross)
- Inside the most northern permanent inhabited station, by @yowflier
- Vote 2016: Get ready for Alabama primaries on 3/1 [Register by Monday deadline.]
- “Deadpool” 1st of 28 superhero movies in next 5 years, compiled by @AdamChitwood
- Ralph Nader’s Tort Museum, by @davidshapiro_6 (via @LSSOnt)
- Y’all Connect: Jen Barnett on branding case studies
- When doctors prescribe books to heal the mind, by Leah Price (h/t @glenbinger)
- How Hot Chicken Really Happened, by @R_LMartin
- Speaking gigs: Pine Belt Entrepreneurs, February 2016
- Interview with “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” creator Michael Schur, by @SJPalumbo (via @Emm7E)
- Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory, by Dennis @Overbye
- The Management Myth, by Matthew Stewart (RT @WhiteAndreetto)
- Writer’s embrace of nature’s overwhelming power, by @AmandaFortini (RT @kickpointinc)
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
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Sunday, January 31st, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 31, 2016:
- Y’all Connect: Our first three speakers of 2016 are …
- White man pathology: Fandom of Sanders, Trump, by @StephenMarche (via @europabridge1)
- Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves, by @TeddyWayne1999 (RT @melaniesiow)
- Gulf kingpins make millions off red snapper w/o fishing, by @BenHRaines (via @MBDinBHAM)
- Now reading “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes,” thanks to @jenbarnett. Aff. link: http://amzn.to/1SqiZzn http://pic.twitter.com/triyMWfTFU
- “This Is What They Did For Fun”: The Story of a Modern-Day Lynching, by @AlbertSamaha
- Who Owns Molecular Biology? By @YardenKatz (RT @kickpointinc)
- The Secret of Immigrant Genius, by @Eric_Weiner (via @garimasharma)
- The Art of the Brand [AAF Mississippi Gulf Coast]
- Lynda Barry’s Illustrated Syllabus from Her UW Class Making Comics, by @AyunHalliday
- Oral History: 30 Years Ago, Mr. Snuffleupagus Shocked “Sesame Street” (RT @MereCummings)
- America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead, by Kevin Drum @kdrum (via @newscommander21)
- The Serial Swatter, by Jason Fagone @jfagone
- How to Escape Your News Bubble, by Mandy Zibart @mzibart (via @giannagruen)
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Sunday, January 24th, 2016
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 17, 2016:
- Blogging fear: Deadlines
- How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name, by @jnd1er and @asktog
- College sports exploit unpaid black athletes; could force change. By Donald Yee. /RT @SMTuffy
- Y’all Connect: Syed Balkhi on managing time for blogging
- Artist @MaggiesgDunlap’s Obsession w/ Serial Killers by @badgirlpripri (via @18thStreetArts)
- How Geoff Marcy’s Sexual Harassment Went on for Decades, by @Azeen (via @virginiahughes)
- Flashback: The $1 billion question: Can UAB afford to keep Watts as president?
- Best Poverty Journalism in 2015, by @rebeccavallas and @traceylross (RT @shrivercenter)
- The Bed-Rest Hoax: The case against a venerable pregnancy treatment, by @AlexKleeman
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – A template for storytelling
- For 30 Years, “Real Genius” is Geek Solidarity Film Nerds Deserve, by @use_theforce_em
- The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare, by @NathanielRich (via @Project_JUST)
- How Magic City, an Atlanta strip club, runs the music industry, by @DevinFriedman
- 40 Million Steps: A Run Around the World, by @RachelSwaby (via @RWtish)
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 27, 2015, highlighting the year’s best reads:
- A Humble Pope @Pontifex, Challenging the World, by @JimBYardley
- Killing UAB Football Part of Larger Plan for UA Board of Trustees by @Doctor_Nicolas
- Mass. police chief’s new approach in city’s fight against heroin by @cbsweeney
- My new series/ebook “The Future of Birmingham” is free #futureofbham
- When Two Decide to Live Together and Combine Bookshelves, by @AlexanderChee
- The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances by @Oatmeal
- CJR Report on Rolling Stone’s Rape Story Bad for Journalism, by @cshirky
- Everything you know about disciplining kids is wrong, by @KatherineLewis
- The Lions of Street Food, by Matt Goulding @mdgoulding
- Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband, by @CliffKuang
- Cover to Cover, by @TomGauld
- Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing America, by @ahadave
- 5 years after Deepwater Horizon: How the secrets were spilled by @BenHRaines
- The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness, by @EmEsfahaniSmith
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Sunday, December 20th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 20, 2015, highlighting the year’s best reads:
- Bart Starr’s drive to honor fellow Packer great Brett Favre, by @Ian_OConnor
- A Manhattan McDonald’s With Many Off-Menu Sales, by @Kim_Barker
- Funny drawings from “Doodle Diary of a New Mom” by @lucyspictures
- As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve: Wade Kwon at Y’all Connect
- Obergefell v. Hodges, a 5-4 ruling making gay marriage legal across US: [PDF]
- Hoda, 20, from Birmingham, runs away to Syria to join ISIS, by @EllieVHall
- Reddit: What do the poor buy, that others know nothing about? http://bit.ly/1YubTtm / http://wapo.st/1YubWWf
- The Meaning of Serena Williams, by Claudia Rankine
- Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating
- @TheBloggess compiled all our humiliating moments. http://bit.ly/1O1qzPp / http://bit.ly/1O1qATl
- The Late, Great Stephen Colbert, by Joel Lovell @lovelljoel
- Gun violence costs America $229b a year, $700+ for every man, woman and child
- 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Assault by Bill Cosby & Culture That Wouldn’t Listen
- The Case for Melancholy, by Laren Stover @reine_des_fees
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Sunday, December 13th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 13, 2015:
- What I’ve learned from 10 years of blogging
- The rehabilitation of @MichaelPhelps, by @SITimLayden (via @DeGuzmanSports)
- 900 Best of 2015 Book Lists from @largeheartedboy
- Y’all Connect: Laura Creekmore on knowing your audience
- The poetry of political speechwriting, by @JoelDeane (RT @BaxterSally)
- Dominique Moody: The Urban Nomad, by @LynellGeorge (via @18thStreetArts)
- Books: Excerpt from Tanner Latham’s “Know Thy Farmer”
- The best and worst journalism of 2015, by @DavidUberti (RT @romenesko)
- The boy who moved Christmas, by @MeaganCampbel12 (RT @susan_allan)
- Flashback: Five more urgently needed blog topics for Birmingham
- Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, Love and Loss (RT @IlseTreurnicht)
- What to Do in an Active Shooter Situation, by @BrettMcKay and Kate McKay
- Big Box Stores Are Becoming Even More of a Terrible Deal, by @olavecchia (RT @nvyoung)
- How to Make Me Come @howtommc, anonymous essays by women talking about female orgasm
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Sunday, December 6th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 6, 2015:
- To free UAB will require immense financial pressure
- How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce, by @SusanBerfield
- LinkedIn for smarties, a five-step program
- Star Wars. Trek. Marvel. DC. An era of infinite sequels by @jetjocko (via @JosephCBakerIII)
- Y’all Connect: Kerry O’Shea Gorgone on contests, giveaways and you
- Tech’s Big Gender Diversity Push, 1 Year In, by @SarahFKessler (via @BUmediaventures)
- Flashback: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
- Surviving 10 Years on World’s Most Desolate Police Beat, by @Andrew_McMillen (RT @kickpointinc)
- Flashback: 1 year ago … On the murder of UAB sports
- The @NYTimes’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2015 (RT @JeffCoLibAL)
- How an episode of “The Simpsons” is made, by Chris @Plante
- Alabama, the South and the double-edged sword of imported jobs, by @ChicoHarlan
- Inside the Sony Hack, one year later, by @AmandaHess
- The hidden ways weather determines what you buy, by @AnaSwanson (RT @gsisson64)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 29, 2015:
- Four business books to boost your 2016
- Should out-of-work miners learn to code? By @LaurenSmiley (via @IBLearning)
- Get Better at Expressing Feelings, by @JulieEBeck (via @adamleealter @cmansfield27)
- Y’all Connect: Meet our new Volunteer Coordinator, James
- Driving advice: Just hit the damn deer, by @AlCambronne
- The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks, by Mike Thomas @MikeTScribe
- Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 33
- The Man Whose Maid Was Worth Millions, by Nilita Vachani (via @TeaAndTemerity)
- Jeong Kwan, the Philosopher Chef, by @JeffGordinier (via @lilimoun)
- Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Chelsea Berler’s “The Curious One”
- The Kidz Bop Is All Right: A Night With Our Shrillest Pop Franchise, by @JiaTolentino
- How one highway exacerbated poverty, segregation, by @AlenaSamuels (RT @shrivercenter) //Lesson for #Bham
- Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy, by Tim Urban @waitbutwhy (via @ewopened)
- Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. By @ArthurBrooks (RT @vsisson13)
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
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Sunday, November 15th, 2015
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Sunday, November 8th, 2015
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