Renee Hall

Find What’s Funny

1. What is being made fun of?

2. What specific things make this “funny?”

3. How might you tell this as a joke without describing what you see?

Forged Parent Note of the Day: If only it were this easy.

(Source: thedailywhat)

Find What’s Funny

1. What is being made fun of?

2. What specific things make this “funny?”

3. How might you tell this as a joke without describing what you see?

(Source: maddieonthings, via menandtheirdogs)

Pro - Con - Neutral

1. Why would people be in favor of this?

2. Why would people be against it?

3. What would be a neutral position?

After his parents were likely killed by poachers, Moses the baby elephant was found alone in the Vwazi Wildlife Reserve in northern Malawi.

But don’t worry, he was adopted! He already weighs 220 pounds, drinks 6 gallons of infant formula every day, and sleeps with his new mom every night.

(via thedailyfeed)

susan88:

earth911:

Little details make a big impact…Shine on!

Did you hear? IKEA plans to phase out CFLs by 2016.

I have one of these colanders at home, but I am not tempted to emulate.

(Source: statementofporpoise)

See Think Wonder

1. What do you see?

2. What do you think is going on?

3. What does it make you wonder?

4. What could you make out of the things you have?

Musician and mother Ellie Stager never expected to be an entrepreneur. But after her husband, a pastor, asked her to make him a bow tie, she took out the sewing machine and got to work. Now just three years later, Stager runs a five-person bow tie company called The Cordial Churchman from a former county courthouse in Rock Hill, S.C.

Photos by Anne McQuary for The Daily

(via thedailyfeed)

tommarch:

Who “Got You Wrong?”

See Think Wonder

1. What do you see - what’s the point?

2. What do you think is going on  with people like this?

3. What does it make you wonder about people in your life?

guardian:

A British researcher whose schoolboy ambition to become a scientist was dismissed as “quite ridiculous” by his teacher has won a Nobel prize for reprograming adult cells into forms that can grow into different tissues.

Sir John Gurdon at Cambridge University shares the prize in physiology or medicine - and the 8m Swedish kronor (£744,000) winnings - with the Japanese scientist, Shinya Yamanaka.

Photo: Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon. Ho/AFP/Getty

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Looking the pictures for Art Lesson -  Op Art

Optical Illusions - people…

Fading Away , 1858 (photo: Henry Peach Robinson)

A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights a long history of faked and manipulated images.

See more photos here.

(via timelightbox)

Be Inspired 

1. Allow the media to inspire you.

2. Get in touch with the feelings it inspires.

3. Put these feelings into words - don’t worry if they don’t “make sense.”

During the 2012 Sea Turtle Triathlon in Pensacola, a young boy’s prosthetic limb broke during the run. Local Marines who had volunteered to help monitor the course picked him up and carried him the rest of the way.

via Marines help a young boy finish a triathlon - CNN iReport

(via npr)

thedailywhat:

Check Out This Awesome Dancing of the Day: Love or hate dubstep, you can’t dispute this guy’s insane dancing skills. 

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(Source: thedailywhat)

guardian:

Eat your heart out Nasa boy. Rudy Parraga, from Guayaquil, shows his Galapagos iguana-inspired hair design on a street in Quito, Ecuador. Photograph: Guillermo Granja/Reuters