books and reading

• 21 famous authors' favourite books on mental floss
• 40 famous authors on reading on shortlist.com
• 50 of the Best Books You Haven’t Read by Authors You Already Love by Emily Temple on Flavorwire
• Five books that are also labyrinths by Jedediah Berry for Tor.com
• Tracy's Staff Picks for Indigo
• Richard's Staff Picks for Indigo

Miscellaneous Sites

• The Programming Historian

Nuclear Testing History

• Project Chariot Cleanup Proceeds but Community Doubts Linger by Suzanna Caldwell for Alaska Dispatch News
• Villagers suspect a problem of nuclear proportions buried near Point Hope by Alex DeMarban for Alaska Dispatch News
• Project Chariot: The Nuclear Legacy of Cape Thompson, Alaska by Norman Chance
• Wikipedia article on Nuclear labor issues

School related (if only vaguely)

• If These Walls Could Talk: The Physical Traces of Residential Schools by Lana Slezic for The Walrus
• Minority Rule By Any Other Name: The case against first past the post by Andrew Coyne for the Walrus
• Fairly Determined by Stacey Gibson on the history of female students at the University of Toronto in the UofT magazine
• The Social Injustice Done to Adjunct Faculty: A call to arms by by Randall Smith on The Public Discourse for the Whitherspoon Institute
• In Defence of Ethnography by David D. Perlmutter on The Chronicle for Higher Ed.
• Class Notes From A 40 Year Old Student Jan Dorosz for the THE Blog (Times Higher Ed.)
• Out of Ideas? Take a Walk by Chris Havergal on Times Higher Ed.
• The Coddling of the Hateful Mind by David Banks on Cyborgology, The Society Pages
• The Nanny Diaries: Toronto’s Filipino caregivers talk about low wages, long days and immigration delays by Christina Gonzales in The Informer section of Toronto Life

Cooking ideas

• 19 Quinoa Salad Bowls from buzzfeed
• 20 Dinners in 20 Minutes from buzzfeed

other interesting articles

• Stephen Colbert, Lifelong Catholic, on Hearing a Female Priest Celebrate the Eucharist on Sojourners
• Documenting homeless teens in hippie communes by Emily Manning and Alice Stein on i-D (vice)
• Bridging the Gap Between Math and Art by Evelyn Lamb for Scientific American