Articles from the New York Times (and elsewhere) from my personal clipping service (my journalist spouse).
Affectiva Hackathon fills up with mixed-gender groups. Nidhi Subbaraman, Boston Globe 2/2/16. Rosalind Picard co-founded Waltham-based startup. Hackathon had at least 50% women. How they made it happen.
“A Doctor Under Siege in Somalia Holds Her Ground” by Mohammed Ibrahim and Jeffrey Gettleman, NYT 1/8/2011. Profile of Dr. Hawa Habdi.
“Priests Challenge Vatican on Ordaining Women” by Laurie Goodstein. NYT 7/23/2011. Profile of former priest Roy Bourgeois who participated in an ordination of women in Kentucky.
“I believe that our Church’s teaching that excludes women from the priesthood defies both faith and reason and cannot stand up to scrutiny. This teaching has nothing to do with God, but with men, and is rooted in sexism. Sexism, like racism, is a sin. And no matter how hard we may try to justify discrimination against women, in the end, it is not the way of God, but of men who want to hold on to their power. As people of faith we believe in the primacy of conscience. Our conscience connects us to the Divine. Our conscience gives us a sense of right and wrong and urges us to do what is right, what is just.
What you are asking me to do in your letter is not possible without betraying my conscience. In essence, you are telling me to lie and say I do not believe that God calls both men and women to the priesthood. This I cannot do, therefore I will not recant. I firmly believe that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is a grave injustice against women, against our Church, and against our God.”
“Keeping Women Safe: Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia” by Rohini Pande, Harvard Magazine, Jan/Feb 2015.
“How to Get Girls Into Coding” by Natasha Tiku. NYT 6/1/14.
“Science Tools Anyone Can Afford” by John Markoff, NYT 4/22/14. Profiles Manu Prakash and his Foldscope, 3D printed microscope. See Moore Foundation Science Play and Research Kit Competition.
“For Lessons About Class, a Field Trip Takes Students Home.” by Ron Lieber, NYT, 5/31/14. Manhattan Country School students visit each others’ homes.
“The Art of Focus” David Brooks Op-Ed NYT 6/3/2014. Observations that echo Tara Brach on attention, focus, and longing.
“From Unyielding Cameraman, an Acclaimed Film” by Ethan Bronner, NYT 1/23/12. Profiles Emad Bernat, Palestinian film maker and his documentary West Bank, supported by Greenhouse.
“White Picket Fence? Not so Fast” by Viral V Acharya, Matthew P. Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Lawrence J. White. Op-Ed 8/17/2011. Scatching critique of US housing policy and subsidies. Points to over-investment in real-estate as a non-productive asset.
“Hands off our Houses” by Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava NYT 6/1/2011 — Article about the “fantasy” of a $300 home for India’s slum-dwellers. Mentions Micro Homes Solutions, a non-profit in New Delhi that helps people improve their existing homes.
“Values Sinking Fastest on Home Priced Low to Start” Floyd Norris, NYT 12/4/10 — National analysis using the Cash-Shiller Index of how lower-priced homes in a number of different cities showed greater price increases and also greater price declines during the housing crisis. Really interesting analysis of inequality that I haven’t seen many other places (except in the Foreclosure heat map of Boston, which I can no longer find on the Boston Globe website).
“Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork” — NYT 4/17/08
“Title Insurers face criticism over owner’s policy”
“Even Small Nesteggs Need Advice” — NYT, MyFi by Citibank (financial services for moderate-income folks) 8/9/08.
“Five Basics for Building a Solid Financial Future” 5/17/08. By Ron Lieber.
“Across the Glove, Hints of More Perils in Housing” Floyd Norris 4/5/08 — Int’l chart — home-price overvaluaion relative to fundamentals, and mortgage debt as % of GDP.
David Schulman, “Living in India’s Spirit World” review of William Dalrymple “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern Indian Life.” in New York Review of Books.
Things to Investigate:
Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster.
National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan
406 Ventures
Schubert’s Winter Journey (gift)
Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History by Bernard Bailyn (gift)
Larry Haun, A Carpenter’s Life as Told by Houses
Richmond Mayo Smith, educator, chiar of world literacy group. 1/24/15 Globe Obituary
Chie Nishio, Japan-born photographer who chronicled Hasidic jews in Brooklyn
Iron Crows, Documentary on Bangladeshi shipbreakers
Radiotopia
99% Invisible (freeway sign podcast)
Folkways Album “Freedom Songs: Selma”
Veros Real Estate Solutions, a supplier of data to the country’s largest banks, as well as government organizations.
People Doing Good Works
“Devoted to keeping lobster divers of Honduras Alive” NYT 9/10/11