How Mars Exploration Is Helping Scientists Understand Sporadic E-Layer Radio Interference on Earth

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has produced an informative animation that explains how the modern exploration of Mars is helping scientists understand | Continue reading


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Father and Son Build Incredible Microtonal Guitar With Moveable Frets Using LEGO and 3D Printed Pieces

When his son created a microtonal guitar (guitar with moveable frets) out of LEGO bricks, Turkish guitarist Tolgahan Çogulu decided to put one just like | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

57 Hours of an Army of Ants Devouring a Banana Slice Compressed Into an Itchy Three Minute Timelapse

Photographer Shahab Gabriel Behzumi of Temponaut Timelapse Stock Footage created a rather itchy three minute timelapse that captured over 57 hours of a | Continue reading


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Resourceful Dog Drags a Plastic Toboggan Up a Snowy Hill So He Can Ride It Back Down to the Bottom

A really resourceful dog eagerly dragged a plastic toboggan up to the top of a snowy hill, set himself upon the sled and slid down with apparent glee. | Continue reading


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Eager Fox Encourages a Slow Moving Badger Into Culvert So They Can Cross Under Highway Together

A night vision camera for Pathways for Wildlife and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) captured the very amusing sight of an eager coyote excitedly | Continue reading


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Eager Coyote Encourages Slow Moving Badger Into Culvert So They Can Cross Under Highway Together

A night vision camera for Pathways for Wildlife and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) captured the very amusing sight of an eager coyote excitedly | Continue reading


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A preview of the BBC show "Life in the Air" captured the amazing sight of an African caracal twisting and turning in the air in slow-motion, ensuring that | Continue reading


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A Hand-Built Playhouse With a Playfully Exaggerated Porch, a Curvy Roof, a Round Door and Windows

Designer Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs (previously) created a really wonderful playhouse in 1995 for Canucks Place, a children's hospice and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Leonard Solomon Shares His Inspiration for Creating Unusual Instruments Like His Incredible Bellowphone

The incredibly talented Leonard Solomon sat down with Wired to talk about the fantastical and unusual instruments he's created over the past 30 years and | Continue reading


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Jason Momoa Removes His Shoes, Muscles, and Hair at Home in Hilarious Rocket Mortgage Super Bowl Ad

Upon arriving home, the distinctly hard-bodied actor Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Aquaman) comfortably kicked off his shoes, removed his arm muscles and | Continue reading


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The Evolution of the Smart Girl Trope

In a departure from their usual analysis of a specific film or television show, The Take takes a realistic look at the evolution of the "smart girl" | Continue reading


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48 Musicians Perform a Badass Trombone Cover of the Daft Punk Song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’

Musician Christopher Bill (previously) gathered 48 of his talented peers at the 2019 International Trombone Festival to perform a badass trombone cover of | Continue reading


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Incredible Paper Animals With Tactile Fur and Feathers

Award-winning artist and illustrator Melinda Fabian creates absolutely incredible, highly realistic, 3D paper animal sculptures that feature pettable fur | Continue reading


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Orphaned Baby Chimpanzees Gleefully Play With Bubbles in a Tub Put Out by Their Adopted Humans

In order to continually provide proper stimulation for the growing orphaned baby chimpanzees living with them, human caretakers Jenny and Jim Desmond of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Artist Pulls a Red Wagon With 99 Smartphones Around Berlin to Create a Virtual Traffic Jam on Google Maps

Artist Simon Weckert, whose work is "related to code and electronics under the reflection on current social aspects", created a virtual traffic jam on | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Bill Murray Reprises His Role as Phil Connors in a Clever ‘Groundhog Day’ Jeep Gladiator Super Bowl Ad

In the very clever Super Bowl ad for Jeep, a wonderfully deadpan Bill Murray seamlessly reprises his role as weatherman Phil Connors from the classic 1995 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Ze Frank Hilariously Lists the Quirky Anxieties of Working in an Office Alongside Other Humans

In a slight departure from his hilarious insights about the animal kingdom, the very forthright Ze Frank turned his astute eye towards the quirky | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 Animal and Botanical Illustrations Available to Download For Free

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a veritable storehouse of natural history documentation that provides open access to its digital library, which | Continue reading


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Geeky Valentine’s Day Cards Featuring Pop Culture Stars Expressing Romantic Feelings In Their Own Way

As he does each year, the very talented PJ McQuade has created a new series of 21 wonderfully geeky illustrated Valentine's Day cards featuring pop | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Fantastic Cover of the Guns N’ Roses’ Song ‘Paradise City’ Performed by a Finnish Bluegrass Band

While at the SXSW conference in 2019, the Finnish Bluegrass band Steve'n'Seagulls performed a fantastic cover of the Guns N' Roses song "Paradise City" on | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Larry David Talks About the Time He Quit His SNL Job and Returned the Next Day Like It Never Happened

While appearing on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, the very witty Larry David engaged in an amusing and candid conversation with the host about the time he | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

An Entire Park Full of People Joins a Man on a Bench in Singing the Bon Jovi Song ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’

While in out and about one day, vlogger Matej Priteržnik captured a truly uplifting video of a man on a bench belting out the words to the hit Bon Jovi | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

NSF’s Solar Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Images of The Sun’s Boiling Surface Ever Taken

The National Science Foundation has released the first high-definition closeup footage of the sun's surface. These astounding images, which were captured | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Deep Dive Into the First Two Tracks on the Iconic Pink Floyd Album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’

In the debut episode of his "The Dark Side of the Moon Project", music essayist Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic takes a long, deep look at the infinitely | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

The Overlooked Importance of the Ear Beyond Hearing

In an auditory episode of Science Insider, narrator David Anderson explains the often-overlooked importance of the human ear aside from hearing. Other | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

78 Year Old Former Baltimore City Planner Completely Covers Himself in a Blue Tattoo After Retiring

"Out of the Blue" by filmmaking duo Steven Hoover and Jonathan Bregel of friendzone is a fascinating short film about Jim Hall, aka "The Blue Comma", a 78 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Detailed Drawings Created on the Empty Canvases of Neglected Dirt Covered Utility Trucks

Russian artist Nikita Bolubev (previously), aka ProBoyNick, has continued to create his incredible "Dirt Painting" series in which Bolubev cleverly uses | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Deconstructing Familiar Cello Music From Film and TV

Video producer Estelle Caswell of the Vox series "Earworm" called upon renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein to help her deconstruct the very familiar | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Amusing Merit Badges for Successful Adulting

Winks for Days, an online brand that specializes in clever and quirky items, has come out with an amusing line of "Adulting Merit Badges". These | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Sturdy Steel Backyard Fire Pit Globe With a Detailed Forest Silhouette Design Hand-Cut Into the Side

Mountain Forest Fireball by Orvis is an incredibly sturdy backyard fire pit globe made out of plate steel that oxidizes with heat. The beautifully | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

How Historical Monarchs Might Look in Modern Times

Texas graphic designer Becca Saladin has created "Royalty Now", a very clever manipulated photo series that imagines what historical monarchs from the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Zeus the Stubborn Husky Whines Incessantly at His Human Until His Downstairs Water Bowl Is Filled

Zeus the extremely stubborn husky who never wants to get out of bed, doesn't like to sit in the back of the car, prefers a bath over going outside and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Monty Python’s Heartfelt Tribute to the Late, Great and Absolutely Brilliant Terry Jones (1942-2020)

After the death of the absolutely brilliant Terry Jones (1942-2020), the surviving members of Monty Python paid a heartfelt tribute to their fallen mate | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Adorable Miniature Animals Made From Felted Wool

Russian materials artist Julia Derevshchikova creates absolutely adorable little animals out of brushed felted wool with mesmerizing big eyes that bring | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Giant Dinosaurs Create Chaos in Paris in an Incredible Digital Prehistoric Safari Projected Onto City Buildings

French artist Julian Nonnon has created "Prehistoric Safari", a video-mapped assortment of giant dinosaurs that were projected onto the buildings of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Fascinating Video Chart That Calculates the Odds of Possessing a Rare Superpower Human Mutation

Comparison vlogger Reigarw has put together a fascinating video chart that calculates at the odds of possessing rare human superpowers. Included in this | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Revealing Map of the Most Common Languages Spoken in the U.S. Other Than English or Spanish

In 2014, we posted really interesting maps showing the most commonly spoken languages in the United States other than English. In 2020, Andy Kiersz and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Rick and Summer Get Stuck in a Meta Pringles Ad in the ‘Rick and Morty’ Pringles Super Bowl Commercial

In the very meta Rick and Morty ad for Pringles set to air during the Super Bowl LIV game, Rick Sanchez and granddaughter Summer find themselves stuck | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Captivating Oil Painting Featuring the Colorful Creatures of the Deep Sea Trying to Eat Each Other

Artist Eduardo del Rio has created "Aquatic Angst" an absolutely captivating oil painting that features the colorful creatures of the deep sea closely fit | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Deliciously Creepy Hercules Beetle Grub Cake

Katherine Dey of Deviant Desserts has made rather creepy but somehow delicious-sounding strawberry lemon cake that's covered in buttercream made to look | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Pixidermy, Brilliantly Pixelated Mounted Animal Head Sculptures Made Out of Wooden Blocks

Chicago sculptor Kentaro Yamato creates amazing animal head sculptures that are pixelated with wooden blocks in a process he calls "Pixidermy", the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Musician Plays ‘Moonlight Sonata’ For Injured Aging Elephant Who Was Rescued From Logging Captivity

Paul Barton (previously), an artist and musician living in Thailand performed an entrancing version of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" for an aging | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Air Force Veteran Is Utterly Floored to Learn That His $375 1971 Rolex Watch Is Now Worth $500K to $700K

In an amusing segment of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, appraiser Peter Planes was in the midst of a one hour Bonanzaville appraisal in Fargo, North | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

AR Pianist, An Amazing App That Uses Machine Learning to Superimpose a Virtual Pianist on Any Piano

Massive Technologies, the Canadian company behind learn-to-play piano apps, took their educational product to the next level with AR Pianist, an | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Child Survivor of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Shares a Message of Hope for Future Generations

"Gam zeh ya'avor" ...This too shall pass". In honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp on January 28, 2020 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Using Flexible Plastic Drinking Straws to Create Green Grasshopper and Translucent Shrimp Fishing Lures

South Korean fisherman Imaginative Guy shared how to create realistic fishing lures made out of flexible plastic drinking straws. Using timelapse and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

What the Iconic Rush Song ‘YYZ’ Sounds Like When the Audio of Neil Peart’s Drumming Is Isolated

kiboko, a video editor who focuses on drum tracks, took the iconic Toronto Pearson Airport inspired instrumental "YYZ" by Rush and brought the audio of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Hilarious Hand-Knit Distressed Sweater That Reflects the Reality of Living With Sharp-Clawed Cats

Hanna and Nina of the wonderfully eccentric Rata Blanca Sweaters created a hilarious sweater that truly reflects what it's like to live with cats, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago