Web Reads: Gentrifying America's poorest city

Gentrification. Camden is a poor city that has been on the receiving end of the kind of attention that Detroit used to get. Here’s an interesting article asking if it’s possible to gentrify America’s poorest, most dangerous city.

Harmful donations. Donating used clothes might feel charitable but might do harm. Two articles explain what happens to the clothes we donate and the macro and micro effects the donations have on people in Africa, Central America, and South Asia, where the clothes most often end up.

Adoption journey. An adult adoptee from Korea thinks back on her experience growing up in a white family and white community. The essay is thoughtful and presents hard truths. It ends with an important reminder that adoption is not “the culmination of someone’s wish to become a parent, but rather the beginning of an adopted person’s individual journey—a journey that will be hard at times, joyful at others, and will hopefully lead to understanding and wholeness.”

Vacuum equalizer. If you drop a bowling ball and a feather from the same height, will they really land at the same time? This four-minute video shows the experiment taking place in a vacuum chamber.

Fertility party. Some women engrossed in their careers want to delay childbearing—but they want to make sure the option is available when they’re ready for it. Enter a movement encouraging egg freezing. At least two companies—Apple and Facebook—offer egg freezing as an employee benefit. And egg-freezing parties are taking place in New York and San Francisco. What could possibly go wrong?