Redditor spacecatapult is a technology teacher at an elementary school. He/she posted this time-lapse of a project called Pixel Place. Each student places a "pixel," or a small piece of paper, on the board during every class. You can see that they started out with no direction at all, but as time passed, they started working as a team. Spacecatapult took a picture every day.  

I've branded this activity as "Pixel Place" because it allows students to make a physical connection with the term pixel. It's actually been very helpful when we talk about pixels in the context of coding and computers. It's also been great for all of the social reasons you are likely considering in your thesis already. At the start of the year, we mostly just had chaos. Students wanted to just make their mark somewhere. Students are seeing that they can do more and better things when they work together. They even leave sticky notes on the walls to communicate idea with students from other classes - this is truly a collaboration between 500 students. There is also a real sense of a "greater good". Sometimes kids are upset by random pixels or attempts at ruining something made by others. The larger group always seems to value making it look good though, so most vandalism is quickly undone. It's been pretty powerful, especially for something that students only spend about 30 seconds a week doing.

-via Kevin O'Connor

In which Superman is gaslighted. For a moment, I thought we were going to go down another philosophical rabbit hole, and then the truth comes out. You didn't even realize that guy was wearing a really bad toupée and a fake 'stache until you'd finished reading. True, the crime rate had been going down for at least 40 years, but I don't think Superman will ever run out of evildoers to battle. This is the latest comic from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The hover text and the red button punch line are worth a trip to the comic page.

First we had Simon's Cat's Guide to Boxes, and then Simon's Cat's Guide to More Boxes. There's really no end to the ways a cat loves to play with a box, so Simon's Cat is back to play with more kinds of boxes!

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And yes, a suitcase is a box, if you're a cat. -via Tastefully Offensive

A Wizard Is Never Late by Kempo24

When you spend the time, spirit and mental energy to become a master wizard the ways of the world that were once important seem to fade away, as your mind is consumed with mystical matters few normal human minds could ever comprehend. Social niceties are also thrown out the window, as are thoughts of a career or the need for romantic relationships, but the main bonus of becoming a wizard is you never have to give a damn about being late ever again!

Show the world another reason why it's cool to be a wizard with this A Wizard Is Never Late t-shirt by Kempo24, it's both a great design and the perfect excuse for your constant tardiness!

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B&W was the original film flavor and is still the best color palette to use when shooting portraits, and back in the colorful 60s and 70s photographer David Bailey ditched the Kodachrome and shot his famous subjects in black and white.

David started out as a fashion photographer working as an assistant to famed fashion photographer John French, but by the 60s David had a contract with Vogue and became an important part of the Swinging London scene.

David's iconic black and white portraits not only made his subjects look extra cool- they capture the look and feel of an era caught between the avant-garde past and the far out future.

See Extraordinary Black And White Portraits Of '60s and '70s Celebrities Taken By David Bailey here

From Mr Sunday Movies, who brought us The Last Jedi's final battle in 16-bit animation, here's the other fight scene from The Last Jedi. The animation was done by John Stratman and the music is by Kenny Mac. If you are still avoiding spoilers ...don't watch it.

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But then again, if you are still avoiding spoiers, you need to go see the movie already. There's not much time before the next Star Wars film comes out in May. Now if there were only a playable version of this, we would all surely die quickly.

Disney movies center around the main characters by default because they're the most important figures in the storyline, so background characters get a few lines in the script but are otherwise ignored. But if you could see the story from a background character's perspective you'd see each enchanting tale a little differently.

For instance- The Lion King is descended from a line of murderous lions, so why would the animals he preys upon swear fealty to him as their king?

And, as this comic by Willie Muse shows, Sleeping Beauty is basically a tale about a rich prince taking advantage of a drugged and vulnerable woman...how's that for happily ever after!

See 5 Disney Movies As Seen From A Different Perspective here (NSFW language)

Since today is Groundhog Day, we are reminded of that Bill Murray movie everywhere we turn. It's like this has happened before ...every February second since 1993. Our occasional sense of deja vu draws us to time travel movies like Groundhog Day that play the same scenes over and over again, with small differences that advance the story. Why do we love these movies? Because we all have regrets, and we'd all love to get a do-over, to get it right for once. When we screw up, a time loop gives us another chance.  

The wealth of time loop stories out there testifies to the resonance of the idea. It's a great high concept hook: time loops raise big questions of choice and fate from the get-go and they pull philosophical complexity out of the most banal scenes. A time loop can turn repeating events into puzzles with infinite solutions, or into set-ups with numerous punchlines. The idea of a time loop is so irresistible that we'll probably keep seeing it crop up again and again in pop culture with new twists for as long as we live.

And while Groundhog Day is the most familiar time loop movie, it is far from the only one. Explore plenty of other such films in the post at Digg.

From your sweaty brow to your pounding heart to the churning in your gut, the physical symptoms of anxiety make it hard to sleep, eat or concentrate, and those who have it more days than not for six months may have general anxiety disorder.

Before treatment comes the research, and this video by AsapSCIENCE will teach you a thing or two about what makes you anxious, and general anxiety disorder, in just under four fast moving and informative minutes.

But the whiteboard animation drawn by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown in the video is a bit twitchy, so you may not want to watch it while you're anxious!

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-Via Laughing Squid

Disney and Marvel Comics artist Brian Kesinger does Star Wars art in the adorable style of Calvin and Hobbes. A couple of years ago, we showed you his comical interpretations of The Force Awakens. Now he has more Calvin-esque observations from the movie The Last Jedi.  

Devil It's Cold Outside by Kempo24

The post-holidays winter season can totally suck, which is why we add fun elements to our lives to make us and others smile and feel happy again, like a NeatoShop shirt.

But did you know we have all kinds of different shirt styles besides short sleeve tees and hoodies?

From longsleeve to v-neck to baseball raglan to dog shirts to baby onesies to shirts for kids of all ages, we even have posters so you can put cool designs created by talented independent artists on your wall.

And from now until February 8th all shirts in the NeatoShop are ON SALE!

It's good to think spring and summer thoughts in the winter

Skeletone by Hillary White

So you have something to look forward to, rather than living fully in the long, cold present

A COLD LANDSCAPE by STML

Because if there were only winter in our lives we'd all go bonkers!

Humble Abomasnow by Ten Tenorio

Wednesday night, the security cameras outside radio station KIRO in Seattle caught a vandal trying to break the window on a truck. With a mop. They reported the incident to the police, and then got morning show host John Curley to narrate it in play-by-play fashion.

Last night we captured surveillance footage of a vandal trying to break in to one of our employee's vehicles in our parking lot. While the suspect is still at large, we took the liberty to have John Curley give his play-by-play of the incident.

Take a listen pic.twitter.com/FYQTiJsTDt

— KIRO Radio 97.3 FM (@KIRORadio) February 1, 2018

The guy will soon know that the entire internet has seen his shenanigans. -via Alexis Ohanian

Working in an office can be a horrifying experience, and when overworked and underpaid cubicle dwellers face a daily combination of boredom, stress and forced socialization the rat race can drive previously sane people batty.

"I once had a coworker who showed up to our office in a wedding dress. Like, an obvious white wedding dress with a crinoline and beading, the works. When our manager asked why she wore a wedding dress to the office, my coworker replied, 'I was out of clean clothes and didn’t feel like doing laundry.'"

—Lauren Emily, Facebook

"There was a lady who brought her little container of paper clips into the kitchen and washed them."

—ihateredroses

But workplaces are strange no matter where you work, and unless you work alone you're bound to work with someone who's a bit of a kook.

Still, I've never worked with anyone who brought rotten teeth in a jar to work:

"I stopped asking my coworkers how their weekends were after one had responded with, 'Not good, my husband’s teeth rotted and we had to spend all night at the dentist getting them pulled.' As if that wasn’t bad enough, she proceeded to pull out a pill container, open it, and say, 'They’re so gross. Smell them,' and tried to hand them to me. Nope."

—mcom

Members of the BuzzFeed community were asked to share "the most WTF thing they've ever seen a coworker do on the job", and their responses made me very happy to work from home...so nobody sees the gross stuff I do!:

"I saw a coworker use his fingers to pluck out his beard hair, then bit the hair, and used it to floss his teeth in front of a number of other coworkers!"

—rgjones630

See 18 WTF Things People Have Done At Work here

Every once in a while, Hollywood will put its performers in the place of the audience -in a movie theater, watching from the seats. When I saw "scenes that take place inside movies theaters," I immediately thought of the Coen brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?  

Considering that this exchange followed Everett’s discovery that his wife divorced him while he was in jail and is now about to marry a man named Waldrip and declare that he is the new father of their girls you might think it’s allowable for Everett to vent just a little. And poor Delmar, he’s got to listen to every word of it, and the confusion on his face when he’s asked about having a woman is priceless.

Yeah there are other awesome film scenes that are set in movie theaters, but if you don't immediately recall them, you'll want to go see them at TVOM.

Gotta Go Fast by Alan Bao

Going fast doesn't come easy to everybody, but Barry the sloth discovered he couldn't even go fast when he was given the super powers of a speedster during a freak accident at the sloth sanctuary. But that didn't stop Barry from buying a cool superhero costume, and the speedster power did make Barry at least a little faster than he was before. However, it also increased his appetite, so Barry ended up spending all his newfound free time foraging for food instead of fighting crime!

Show the world the speed you're comfortable going with this Gotta Go Fast t-shirt by Alan Bao, it's the perfect tee to wear while you're tearing up the track, visiting your local zoo or just hangin' around watching TV.

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