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Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cropStrange Fruit by Abel Meeropol
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Happy Tuesday! Whether you’ve already gained some momentum through your morning or need some inspiration, this little guy, created by Chibird.com, should motivate you to keep going through the rest of your day.
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An ‘Adventure’ For Kids and Maybe For Their Parents, Too
Author Lev Grossman (senior book critic for Time) hasn’t been shy about his love for Adventure Time. Here he is talking to NPR explaining why the cartoon is so wonderful, including his personal connection with Ice King:
It’s very affecting. My dad has been going through having Alzheimer’s, and he’s forgotten so much about who he used to be. And I look at him and think this cartoon is about my father dying.
Listen for some insight from Pen, too. Thanks to Neda Ulaby for the nice segment.
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It might be time for high school chemistry education to improve a bit when you have to spend 20 minutes explaining to someone that “salt substitutes” that don’t contain sodium (like potassium chloride) are still salt.
Your mission of the day is to teach one person that sodium chloride is a salt, but not all salts are sodium chloride.
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You Willpower is Finite
Can you turn over a new leaf, go on a diet, learn a new language, and get up every morning at dawn to meditate and clean your house? The idea of ego depletion says, “no.” And it has physical evidence to back that up.
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- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Why you should care about surveillance
I got tired of people savvying me about the revelations of NSA surveillance and asking why anyone would care about secret, intrusive spying, so I wrote a new Guardian column about it, “The NSA’s Prism: why we should care.”
We’re bad at privacy because the…
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Two From SPb made this awesomely silly music video entitled “Wild Horse”. The video features our creepy Horse Head Mask and tell the story of “a wild horse who doesn’t like Kate Moss. It likes a girl from a Russian town. But she lives with a bear and she doesn’t care.”
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Japanese photographer Kouichi Chiba takes beautiful photos that remind us you don’t need expensive or even particularly uncommon supplies to create art that delights and touches people.
Koichi places sweet and playful paper characters in a variety of environments, some natural, some urban, to create charming photos that feel like tender glimpses of a fragile little world existing inside our own that are completely endearing. Whatever they’re doing, naping, undertaking daring adventures, or just walking their dogs, his paper people are enjoying their lives.
Visit Kouichi Chiba’s 500px page to view more of his enchanting photos.
[via My Modern Metropolis]
