Turkish Artist Brews Up Amazing 3D Illustrations Using Diluted Coffee as His Paint

Turkish artist Ekrem Pala brews up some absolutely amazing 3D illustrations whenever he takes a coffee break. Pala first sketches an outline in pencil | Continue reading


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Rescued Long-Horned Bull Adorably Pouts After Accidentally Deflating His Ball on Barbed Wire Fence

A really sweet, rescued long-horn bull named Tex at Ima Survivor Sanctuary in Cleveland, Texas was having fun chasing after his big red yoga ball across | Continue reading


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In The RP2A Over The Sea, A Chiptune Cover of ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’ by Neutral Milk Hotel

Pixel artist Doctor Octoroc (previously) has created "In The RP2A Over The Sea", a chiptune cover of the indie rock album "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" | Continue reading


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Mousr, An Adorable Autonomous Robotic Toy That Intelligently Learns How to Entertain a Cat for Hours

Mousr is a brilliantly designed, smart robotic chase toy that works with a proprietary app (iOS and Google Play) to design a plan to keep that cat | Continue reading


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Weezer Joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for a Classroom Instruments Cover of a-ha’s ‘Take On Me’

While promoting their Teal album of cover songs and other new projects, the members of Weezer joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in a Tonight Show | Continue reading


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All Queens Chess, A Unique Chess Game Solely Made Up of Powerful Queens That Can’t Be Captured

ThinkFun has created All Queens Chess, a unique strategy game that combines the rules of chess with the logic of tic-tac-toe. All of the game pieces are | Continue reading


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What a Popping Balloon Sounds Like Inside an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower

While visiting the new NWAA acoustic test lab built inside an abandoned, unused nuclear plant in Elma, Washington, project engineer Matt Ballos and audio | Continue reading


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Farmer Pulls an Enormous Carrot Out of a Dirt Barrel

Back in 2014, Dan of Allotment Diary pulled his very first show carrot from a greenhouse dirt barrel after seeing a hopeful crack in the dirt. The root | Continue reading


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How Jack White’s Love for the Number Three Shows Up in Various Aesthetic and Musical Aspects of His Career

Music essayist Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic takes a tertiary look at musician Jack White and his obsession with the number three. In doing so, Lefevre | Continue reading


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Preview of the A100 Audio-Animatronic Hondo Ohnaka Robot at Disney’s New ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’

In advance of the opening of "Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge" at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, a team of Imagineers offers a sneak peek | Continue reading


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How a Missing Oxford Comma in Maine Employment Law Cost a Portland Dairy Over $5,000,000 in Overtime

In 2014, Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine was named a defendant in a class-action lawsuit brought by their drivers, who claimed that they were due | Continue reading


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Jimi Hendrix Talks to Dick Cavett in 1969 About His Electric Church and How He Prefers Music to Politics

In a really wonderful clip from a 1969 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, a brilliantly attired, shy Jimi Hendrix opened up about his idea for an | Continue reading


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A Marvelous Set of Optical Illusion Playing Cards

Illusion d'Optique is a marvelous set of playing cards that feature incredible optical illusions and hypnotic holographic designs that change color with | Continue reading


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Movement Act, A Hypnotic Star-Shaped Juggling Machine With 16 Crisscrossing Balls That Never Collide

Japanese juggling graduate student Shun Onozawa has created "Movement Act" an incredibly hypnotic, rhythmic juggling machine that simultaneously keeps 16 | Continue reading


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Talking Gargoyle at the Denver Airport Hilariously Engages With Skeptical Travelers and Curious Children

The Denver International Airport has always been very candid about the conspiracies and rumors surrounding the questionable adornments of unusual murals, | Continue reading


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How a Specific Scene in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Was Structured to Reveal a Lot About Each Character

Michael Tucker of Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at a scene from the iconic film Silence of the Lambs to show how it embodies a specific film | Continue reading


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Why the One Who Wins the ‘Game of Thrones’ Will Be the One to Write ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ For the Ages

In a somewhat prescient video essay that was first posted in 2016, Sage Hyden of the series Just Write poses the very interesting question as to why the | Continue reading


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The Restless Beauty Within Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art

In a colorful TED-Ed lesson written by Jordana Moore Saggese and animated by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet, narrator Dr. Christina Greer tells of legendary | Continue reading


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Amazing Microscopic Footage of Immune System Cleaning Lymphocytes Attacking a Cancerous Cell

In 2014, the Synapse Center for Health and Healing in Egan, Minnesota shared fascinating microscopic footage of a human immune system in action. The | Continue reading


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An Oblivious Cat Inconsiderately Stomps Right Through the Creamy Chocolate Pudding Center of a Snack Cake

A seemingly oblivious cat jumped up onto the dining room table and inconsiderately stomped right through the creamy, chocolate pudding center of a | Continue reading


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An Ambitious Rube Goldberg Inspired Game That Keeps a Blue Marble in Motion Over Two Tabletops

In 2018, the very mechanically talented Kaplamino (previously) created two different versions of his original Rube Goldberg inspired tabletop pinball game | Continue reading


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Highly Relatable Imaginary Self-Help Books That Illustrate Commonly Shared Thoughts About Life

Story Of My Fucking Life is a hilarious illustrated series of imagined self-help books with highly relatable titles that gives voice to a number of shared | Continue reading


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Researchers Discover How to Harness Water to Create Brilliant Structural Color Without Dyes or Additives

Researchers at MIT and Penn State University have discovered how ordinary droplets of water, when placed onto on a transparent surface, can produce | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Tape Dispenser Shaped Like an Old-School Turntable

Scotch has created a really cool tape dispenser in the shape of an old-school turntable complete with a mid-century woodgrain facade, a weighted base and | Continue reading


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An Elevator With Double Tap Cancellation Buttons

Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate Scott Cate shared footage showing that each of the elevators in his Medellín, Columbia apartment building have a really | Continue reading


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Jack Black Hilariously Asks Sir Elton John to Identify His Own Song Using Grunting Noises and Hand Gestures

In a 2016 clip from The Graham Norton Show, a nervously wired Jack Black hilariously asked fellow guest Sir Elton John to identify the name of one of | Continue reading


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Why Dog Noses Are Far More Sensitive Than Humans

A redolent episode of KQED Deep Look explains why a dog's nose is far more sensitive than that of a human. They specifically look at the remarkable amount | Continue reading


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Spike Jonze Makes a Historical Case for Legalizing Marijuana in the MedMen Ad ‘The New Normal’

In the ad "The New Normal" for the cannabis retailer MedMen, director Spike Jonze calls attention to significant points throughout challenging eras within | Continue reading


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Scenes From All Ten ‘Star Wars’ Films Seamlessly Recut as a Mega-Trailer For the Franchise

While there wives were out of town, actor Topher Grace and video game editor Jeff Yorkes seamlessly edited scenes from all ten Star Wars films to create | Continue reading


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An Adorable Yellow Ball Python Rotates an Empty Cardboard Box by Continuously Circling the Exterior

Cardboard boxes provide a wonderful and inexpensive way to keep pets entertained. Cats will likely jump inside, dogs will rip them apart, guinea pigs will | Continue reading


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Rick And Morty Try to Save a Hapless Ruben in an Anatomy Park Special Edition Game of Operation

USAopoly (previously) has released the rather meta board game Operation: Rick and Morty Anatomy Park Special Edition based upon an episode of the animated | Continue reading


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How a British Psychiatrist Tried to Make Medical Sense of the Paranormal Premonitions That He Collected

New Yorker writer Sam Knight talks about his research for the story "The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future", which takes a deep look | Continue reading


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Man Wears the Same Outfit Every Day For Two Years

Vox did an interview with Justus Kersey, who has worn the same outfit every day for two years. Why wear everything, when you can wear one thing that you | Continue reading


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A Map of Endangered Languages Around the World

Endangered Alphabets is an incredible decade-old project that focuses on bringing attention to languages that are systematically being ignored and/or | Continue reading


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An Amusing Animation About Martin Luther the Rebel

"The Story of Martin Luther" is an amusing, award-winning animation by Magnus Møller of Tumblehead Animation Studio that illustrates the history of Martin | Continue reading


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A Little Girl Insists ‘Cookie Monster’ is a Letter While Singing the ABC Song With Kermit the Frog

In a classic clip from the long-playing children series Sesame Street, a little girl named Joey was singing the ABC song with Kermit the Frog. All was | Continue reading


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A Whimsical Photo Series Featuring Adorable Wild Red Squirrels Doing Some Very Human Things

Swedish/Dutch photographer Geert Weggen has created a wonderfully whimsical photo series of surprisingly cooperative wild red squirrels performing some | Continue reading


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Insightful Interactive Map Showing How Short Wordless Vocal Bursts Can Express a Wide Range of Emotions

(larger) Researchers Alan S. Cowen, Hilary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka and Dacher Keltner have created a fascinating interactive map that visualizes how | Continue reading


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Musician Demonstrates 40 Different Bass Techniques In a Continuous Solo Without Missing a Beat

Musician Nathan Navarro demonstrates an amazing 40 different bass techniques in a continuous solo without missing a single beat, even when a random hand | Continue reading


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Every Time ‘The Force’ is Mentioned in Star Wars Films

Star Wars Kids counts how many times "The Force" is mentioned in Star Wars movies. The Force is an an energy field created by all living things. It | Continue reading


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And the Oscar Goes To…

And the Oscar goes to...movie I've never heard of. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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Footage of Canadian Weatherman Percy Saltzman Drawing the Forecast Onto a Chalkboard Map in 1967

CBC archival footage from 1967 shows renowned Canadian weatherman Percy Saltzman impressively drawing a rather intricate low pressure weather pattern onto | Continue reading


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Swimming With Gentle Giant Whale Sharks as They Feed off Isla Mujeres, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula

In the gorgeous underwater mini-documentary "There Be Giants", British filmmaker Simon Spear captured footage of the incredible bounty of life that lies | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Beautiful Glass Flower Mosaics Adorn the Walls of Newly Remodeled 28th Street Subway Station in NYC

When the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) decided to remodel the 28th Street Lexington Avenue subway station, they tapped artist Nancy Blum to create | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Random @#*%!$ Characters (Grawlixes) Became Common Censor-Avoiding Replacements for Profanity

In a @#*%!$ interesting Vox video essay, correspondent Phil Edwards explains how random keyboard symbols entered the common lexicon as acceptable | Continue reading


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Creative Child Contacts Father at Work Through Video Doorbell to Ask for Help Finding the Kids TV Channel

A really cute and creative child called "Babie Gracie" was sent home alone with the instructions to watch the kids channel on television while mom was | Continue reading


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Famed Author Waxes Philosophically About Life at 97

"Being 97" by Andrew Hasse of Futuremagic is a short, somewhat heartbreaking film about Dr. Herbert Fingarette, renowned author, philosopher and emeritus | Continue reading


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Rivers Cuomo Is an Eerie Mister Rogers in the Music Video for the New Weezer Song ‘High as a Kite’

In the music video for the newly released Weezer song "High as a Kite", frontman Rivers Cuomo dressed up as a Mister Rogers lookalike and joined the rest | Continue reading


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