The Village Elephant Optical Illusion

Is it Friday yet? Oh, yes it is… For some of you, that means the end of a long work week and the start of two days of rest, relaxation and fun! For the rest of us? Well, we don’t wanna talk about it. As I was poking around in my collection, I ran across an elephant optical illusion and figured that Friday is a good day for an elephant. There’s no logical reasoning behind my thought process today, so here’s your elephant…

Of course, as with most illusions on this site, there’s more to this elephant optical illusion than meets the eye. In fact, some of you may not even have seen the elephant at first. Some of you may have seen the village. The space between the elephant’s legs and trunk are actually huts. Take a look at the birds too. The birds on the left side of the image make up the elephant’s ear and eye, while the birds at the top of the image make the curve of the elephant’s back.

I love these multiple meaning optical illusions, and this is a pretty good one! If you agree, be sure to give it a good rating with the stars below!

If you liked this elephant optical illusion, you might want to head over and check out this cow optical illusion!

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 08, 2016)

Clock

At noon, you look at the clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the 3 and the 4. What time is it?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jan 08, 2016)

“Mamma Mia” Lyrics
So, just how well do you know this famous ABBA song? Take this quiz to find out!

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Limn

limn

verb :: To depict by painting or drawing.

“The artist had the ability to limn an entire scene in a couple of minutes.”

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Creativity : Ego and Superego

According to Freud, the mind is made up of the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is concerned with satisfying our needs, the ego is aware of the self and the world, and the superego is concerned with morality.

Creative ideas originate in the unconscious id and must be filtered through the ego and superego before they can be expressed to the world. The ego may reject an idea because it is unrealistic or impractical and the superego may reject an idea because it is against our ethics.

For example, an idea to genetically engineer a purple cat might be rejected by the ego for being impossible. The idea to throw a cat into a vat of purple paint would be rejected by the superego for being cruel.

Very few creative ideas will get past an overly restrictive ego and superego. At the same time, an excessively passive ego or superego will result in the expression of many impractical or immoral ideas. Through exercises such as brainstorming, we can train our ego and superego to be more or less selective depending upon our needs.

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Memory : Advantages of the Phonetic System

The Phonetic Mnemonic System has several advantages over some of the other mnemonic systems.

The Peg system is limited by the length of lists that you can use it to remember. The Phonetic system does not have this limit and can be used to remember very long lists.

The Loci system requires that recall be in sequential order. This is not always convenient. The Phonetic system allows you to recall items out of order and by number. In other words, you can recall the 78th item directly without counting through 1-77.

Another advantage is that the Phonetic system can be used to easily remember numbers. No other system can do this.

The big disadvantage of the Phonetic system is that it takes the longest to learn and is slow to use until you have mastered the technique.

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Historical Events for 8th January 2016

1734 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1913 – Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1918 – Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) of the US Constitution
1945 – “Youth for Christ” organizes
1972 – NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
1972 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’ 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1989 – NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears 28-3
1989 – “Starlight Express” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
2001 – The identities of 2 boys who murdered a toddler in 1993 will be kept secret, the High Court rules
2001 – 28th American Music Awards: Faith Hill and Kid Rock win

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