Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Disney’s early princess movies offer heroines that are strikingly similar: soft-spoken, ethereally beautiful, and willing to endure hardship and humiliation without a peep of complaint. Today, Disney’s princesses are a sassier, pluckier bunch. But research has found a surprising trend: Even when they have the starring role, women speak only a minority of the dialogue—and…
In a shootout in the US state of Oregon yesterday evening (Jan. 26), the FBI confronted members a militant group that since early this month has occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Authorities took eight people into custody after the shootout, including group leader Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan, who was shot in the…
Photo Police officers in Oregon blocked a highway in Seneca, Ore., on Tuesday during a confrontation with Ammon Bundy and his group. Credit Dave Killen/The Oregonian, via Associated Press JOHN DAY, Ore. — Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed seizing of a federal wildlife refuge in rural eastern Oregon, was arrested and one person…
Ammon Bundy in Nevada in 2014, before he led an armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon this weekend. George Frey / Getty Images The takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon appears to be more than just a protest of the impending imprisonment of two ranchers who set fires that spread…
There’s a white brick building that squats on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and it houses a J.Crew which opened at the tail-end of 2014—not long after the area welcomed Urban Outfitters and Madewell just a few blocks to the north. The building used to be a rehearsal/recording space for TV on the Radio, and…
A sign is seen outside a Wall Street Journal office on Avenue of the Americas | Mario Tama/Getty New rules mean that passport holders of the 38 countries who previously could visit the United States without a visa now must obtain a visa if they are dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan By…
Just when you think things can’t get sadder and stranger at Twitter…. Last night, news leaked to the New York Times and Re/Code that four major Twitter execs are leaving: Alex Roetter, Kevin Weil, Skip Schipper, and Katie Stanton The original positioning was that the departures were part of a house cleaning. That suggestion, though,…
Twitter Inc. named Leslie Berland chief marketing officer as it undergoes a major overhaul of its top ranks in an effort to reboot growth. Berland, 37, was previously senior vice president of digital partnerships at American Express Co. where she spent the past four years on an ad campaign that included a heavy presence on…
Let’s talk about (former?) Agent Dana Katherine Scully, the “X-Files” character who by all rights should be considered the real protagonist of the “X-Files,” even though the series often seems to want to believe it is Fox Mulder. Scully is the skeptic who must learn over the course of years to reconcile scientific rigor with the unexplained; Mulder loves…
Twitter is all over the news lately. Their servers were down for a while last week, putting me into a bit of a conundrum. (I always post on Twitter when a new articles comes out.) The stock price went south. Over the weekend, a few key execs took an exit. Those are all a pretty…