Ainee Fatima remembered that when she was a student, she had "immense anxiety" over getting back her 'red-marker'-graded papers.

So, when she became a high school teacher, Fatima decided to grade her students' papers a bit differently: with meme stickers!

"Everyone uses them in some aspect of life," Fatima told OprahMag.com over email. "It's a part of our texting culture now, and we use them to react to everything. I thought, why don't I use this for grading? My kids need to know how ridiculous their answers are sometimes."

"The memes push students to look at what they got wrong. Instead of shoving the exam in their bag from embarrassment, which is something I used to do because I didn't want anyone to see the red marks I got, it allows them to correct their mistakes for a better grade," she says.

Read the full story over at The Oprah Magazine

Found in beautiful Portland, OR. Thanks Tiffany!

... or is it just happy to see you?

Thanks Tiffany!

When his gun jammed when chasing criminals, this Indian policeman in Uttar Pradesh didn't get scared. Instead, he shouted "thain, thain" to mimick the sound of gunfire and scare the criminals.

#WATCH: Police personnel shouts 'thain thain' to scare criminals during an encounter in Sambhal after his revolver got jammed. ASP says, 'words like 'maaro & ghero' are said to create mental pressure on criminals. Cartridges being stuck in revolver is a technical fault'. (12.10) pic.twitter.com/NKyEnPZukh

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 13, 2018

Sort of like yelling "pew, pew," I suppose!

via Tribune India

Those of you who've visited Southeast Asian countries may have come across the spiky and stinky fruit called the durian.

And if so, then you'd either be intrigued with or absolutely disgusted by this latest culinary creation: durian pizza!

Coconuts.co has the story:

“Destroy all the rules of deliciousness with the brand new pizza made with real ‘Monthong’ [a type of durian] durian” bodes the perhaps-overly energetic voiceover that accompanies The Pizza Company’s new TV commercial.

Yeah, durian pizza. Let that sit for a second.

So what do you think? Would you try it?

We're not in Kansas anymore ... we're actually in La, a district in Accra, the capital of Ghana.

Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey created carpets of stitched together yellow square pieces of plastic from a jerrycan as an art installation.

BBC has the details:

Each of the squares is cut from a distinctive type of jerrycan, known in Ghana as a "Kufuor gallon" - named after former President John Kufuor - and then sewn together to form plastic carpeting.

In the early 2000s, when Mr Kufuor was in power, there were water shortages and the large yellow containers began to be seen around the country as people used them on their long treks to collect water.

Some are still in use, but many now lie discarded and Clottey repurposes them for his art, which he calls "Afrogallonism".

Read the rest over at the BBC.

Photo: Nii Odzenma

We've never seen the Pringles Guy (actually, he has a name: "Julius Pringles") look this good before!

Japanese papercraft enthusiast named Haruki turned an empty can of Pringles into a 3D mascot - via grapee

Butterflies are gorgeous ... down to their chitinous wings!

From Colossal:

To photograph with such precision, the photographer uses a 10x microscope objective attached to a 200mm lens, which presents an almost non-existent depth of field. “The lens must be moved no more than 3 microns per photo to achieve focus across the thickness of the subject which can be up to 8 millimeters,” Perani explains to Colossal. “This yields 350 exposures, each with a sliver in focus, that must be composited together.” In total this accounts for 2,100 separate exposures combined into a single image.

Check out more over at Perani's website.

How a dandelion seed can fly far away - often a kilometer or more - with its parachute-shaped bundle of bristles, was a mystery ... until now.

Here's what scientists from the University of Edinburgh found:

Their study revealed that a ring-shaped air bubble forms as air moves through the bristles, enhancing the drag that slows each seed's descent to the ground.

This newly found form of air bubble - which the scientists have named the separated vortex ring - is physically detached from the bristles and is stabilised by air flowing through it.

The amount of air flowing through, which is critical for keeping the bubble stable and directly above the seed in flight, is precisely controlled by the spacing of the bristles.

Leave it to New York-based artist Tom Sachs to bring us a pair of sneakers that are out of this world. Behold, the Nike Mars Yard Overshoe.

From Dezeen:

Sachs initially designed the shoe for a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, which created the airbags used in the Mars Exploration Rover missions.

The shoe was later updated in 2017 to include a polyester meshing, instead of the previous Vectran, a material used to make these airbags.

When Thomas Jacob was 10 years old, he was taught writing with an ink pen at school. At that time, ink pens leaked a lot and students were given small pieces of chalk to blot up the ink. That's when Jacob discovered that he could carve his small piece of chalk into a sculpture.

Today, Jacob is a "micro artist" who creates fascinating sculptures and artwork with sticks of chalk, grains of rice and and pencil lead.

Take a look at more of Jacob's chalk sculptures over at his website, Thomasartworld - via Crookedbrains

Musician and YouTuber Rousseau connected some LEDs to his piano and filmed himself playing. The results look like he's playing piano a la Guitar Hero at expert level!

Here's Rousseau playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement):

Portuguese artist Sergio Odeith specializes in painting giant anamorphic insects. Here, he took converted a concrete dome into a giant beetle.

View more of Odeith's anamorphic graffiti below:

Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza took this neat photo of a damselfly with huge eyes peeking from behind a small twig. Or maybe it was trying to hide, but its eyes were too wide!

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It's like Mad Max, but with Hot Wheels.

Make Magazine's Gareth Brandwyn explains how much fun it is to convert a regular die cast toy car into a post apocalyptic combat car for the popular tabletop game Gaslands.

BRB, getting myself some Hot Wheels to Mad Max-ify!