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sharingpoetry:

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode? 

(submitted by potatonutx)

onearth:

North Dakota just passed Alaska to become the second-largest oil-producing state in the country. Good for the local economy (at least while the boom lasts), but not so good for public health, crime rates, water use, air pollution, and the social fabric. Read about what happens when a small town turns boomtown in our special reports:

In North Dakota and Nationwide, A Boom in Health Problems Accompanies Fracking

and

Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom

See: Odessa, Texas

(via climateadaptation)

matodwyer:

A rough of some song we where in the process of making the other day.

theatlantic:

‘Swagger’ and Other Everyday Words Invented by Famous Authors

Swagger, bump, obscene, luggage: Though the attributions change from time to time based on dating and research, the common wisdom is that William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words, many of which we still use today. Some of our favorites: bump, first used in Romeo and Juliet, swagger, first used in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, obscene, first used in Love’s Labor’s Lost, and luggage, first used in King Henry IV, Part I.

Nerd: If you were ever teased in high school for being a nerd, you probably have Dr. Seuss to blame — him and those pocket protectors you insisted on wearing. Seuss’s 1950 children’s book If I Ran the Zoo contains the first printed usage of the word, as a strange little animal one might like to keep locked up: “And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo/A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!”

Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

smokefish:

Styx by Phoenixstamatis

Love Greek mythology refs

(via sowarmasolitude)

theatlantic:

A Fast Food Burger Is 3 Times Larger Now Than in The 1950s

Research has shown that the bigger your plate, the likelier it is you’ll overeat. The same logic may apply to fast food, where according to a new infographic by the Centers for Disease Control, portion sizes for popular items have increased dramatically since the 1950s.

Read more. [Image: CDC]

thepeoplesrecord:

FREE PALESTINE

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(Source: magnificentlyinsane)

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