January 20, 2017
“From 17th century Postmedieval English abodes to 19th century Tudors all the way through the “McMansions” of the 1990s,” a handy guide to the vernacular of American homes. / Pop Chart Lab
From an outgoing interview with Obama’s White House photographer, Pete Souza: / GQ
A former restaurant owner from Waco, in for crack cocaine crimes, elected to stay in jail as a “silent protest” against the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders. / Vice
Not just for kids? Now available, the Brutalist Coloring Book. / TM™
New Yorkers who want more marble in their workouts can now exercise at the Met, not with trainers but “athletic docents.” / The New York Times
From Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG, a puzzle that’s part Trump, part Vandermeer: Andrew Kudless’s rule-constrained exploration of how a wall could become a city. / bldgblog.com
Chalk this up more to design than architecture, but it looks like the wealthy can now buy their own tanks. / BBC
A new series on Netflix we’re excited about, screening at Sundance this weekend and streaming next month, Abstract: The Art of Design. / It’s Nice That
A good podcast episode from Monocle on the topic of white elephants, highlighting the Palestinians’ first parliament building (still in limbo) and Belgrade’s “redundant buildings.” / monocle.com
“Linkages between social media, and word of mouth, and ending up with a gun in the hand or a machete, those are fairly clear.” In South Sudan, viral propaganda hoaxes largely spread by the country’s diaspora through Facebook are inciting sectarian violence. / BuzzFeed News
Some had hoped Obama would eliminate the death penalty. Instead, it continues to be pursued, even in cases of intellectual disability, and an investigation by DOJ will be left on the cutting board. / themarshallproject.org
The number of foreign military personnel who’ve trained at US defense universities and later committed atrocities is estimated at somewhere between 17 and 50. / Center for Public Integrity
“What people forget is, those who end up on opioid pain management have usually tried everything else unsuccessfully.” The opioid crisis has sparked a civil war amongst both doctors and patients in the chronic pain community. / STAT
The billionaire financier was revealed during confirmation hearings to have under-reported his assets by more than $100 million. / The Washington Post
“At one [DeploraBall] event, 200 guests will be joined by 80 reporters and two documentary crews.” Is the media’s incessant fascination with the alt-right fueling the fire? / BuzzFeed
We thought viral selfie app Meitu was more creepy than cute even before we found out it sends tons of your data back to China. / Ars Technica
Photographer follows her father on a sales trip / TMN
Plenty hew closer to Republican talking points around evangelism and national security, but a lot of the interviewees want things you’d associate more with an expanded government. One talked about how much he hoped the Postal Service wouldn’t be privatized. / The Washington Post
“We had that conversation over a full day of listening to Christian television. He would just let it end with, ‘Well, let’s let think about it. I’m just worried that if I come people will expect me to dance like Michael Jackson.’ Or he’d be like, ‘I’m not very strong anymore. I used to be able to wrestle down Hulk Hogan.’ We’re in the bush of a town in Nigeria and you’re talking about Hulk Hogan?” William Onyeabor, the cult musician who rarely left the Nigerian city where he maintained a full vinyl factory, died this week—never having performed live. / Pitchfork
“The Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.” The legal use of “quiet title and partition” has been displacing Native Hawaiian families for decades. / staradvertiser.com