Amy Poehler Challenges Nick Offerman to Identify Different Types of Wood Using Only His Sense of Smell

In a digital exclusive from July 2018 for their wonderful crafting series Making It on NBC, former Parks and Recreation co-stars Nick Offerman and Amy | Continue reading


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The Pre-1976, Proto-Punk Bands That Embodied the Punk Rock Genre Long Before It Existed

Music essayist Trash Theory takes a look a the history of punk rock, focusing specifically on the proto-punk bands that embodied the yet-to-be named | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Impressive Stop Motion Paper Animation That Recreates the Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 Level

Japanese Twitter user KisaragiHutae6 has created a really wonderful stop motion paper animation of the classic Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 level. The | Continue reading


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Stunning Drone Footage of the Colorful Geometric Block Towers Rising Up Above Kowloon, Hong Kong

Aerial director Toby Harriman, who captured the unique beauty of the San Francisco skyline, has also captured amazing drone footage of the mesmerizing, | Continue reading


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How the BBC Show ‘Sherlock’ Strikes Down the Myth That a Loner Genius Doesn’t Need Friends

Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take a look at the concept of the "Loner Genius", particularly how its perpetuating mythology gives such | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Sad Injured Dog Living on Romanian Streets Finds a Loving Home With a Family in the United States

In February 2018, the kind souls at the animal rescue shelter "Howl of a Dog" in Resita, Romania reached out to a filthy dog who was wandering around the | Continue reading


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Comedienne Lucille Ball Talks Like a Train in a 1939 Demonstration of the New Sonovox Talk Box

In 1939, inventor Gilbert Wright created the Sonovox, a talk box that utilized the same general principles of Alvino Rey's Talking Steel Guitar. Rather | Continue reading


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An Entire Village of Miniature Disney-Esque Castles Sits Empty in the Bolu Province of Northern Turkey

During the economic boom of 2014, the builders of the Sarot Group invested over $200 million to build "Burj Al Babas", an entire resort estate of | Continue reading


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Backyard Soap Bubbles Freeze Into Crystallized Orbs

Photographer Tanya Stafford set a large soap bubble outside in her snowy Nevada backyard and watched as the bubble froze over into a beautiful, | Continue reading


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The Impending Technological Doom That Awaits Us When the Next Powerful Solar Storm Hits the Earth

In a boding episode, the narrator of RealLifeLore explains how a powerful solar storm could cause a devastatingly massive meltdown of electric grids, | Continue reading


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A Little Yellow Bird Goes for a Ride on a Tiny Scooter

A little yellow bird named Drigo adorably climbed upon a teeny tiny scooter and took a little ride around the kitchen table. Drigo is part of a family of | Continue reading


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Stunning Deep Water Footage of a Male Weedy Sea Dragon Carrying the Eggs of His Young on His Tail

While diving in Port Phillip Bay in southern Victoria, Australia, award-winning cinematographer Jarrod Boord captured absolutely stunning footage of a | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Experimental Black and White Film About a Female Cat Giving Birth to Five Kittens in 1947

In 1947, the husband and wife filmmaking team of Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren created "Private Life of a Cat", a beautiful experimental film about a | Continue reading


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How Robert Smith’s Moods Dictated The Cure’s Sound

Music essayist Trash Theory takes a deep dive into the enigmatic history of The Cure and the band's frequent forays into radio friendly pop music before | Continue reading


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The Eight Hidden in the Eight of Diamonds

What age were you when you first saw the 8 in the middle of the 8 of diamonds? ? pic.twitter.com/GjRLkyl7Vu— Plink (@PlinketyPlink) November 17, | Continue reading


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The Appropriately Weird History Behind the Iconic Talking Heads Song ‘Once In a Lifetime’

In 1980, Talking Heads along with producer Brian Eno, released the song "Once In a Lifetime" to moderate success. With the advent of MTV a year later, the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Scientist Proves the Earth Is Round Using Two Sticks and an Orange While Bicycling a Saskatchewan Road

Scientist and science vlogger Kurtis Baute set out to prove that the world is round with a simple, yet strenuous experiment using two sticks, an orange | Continue reading


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Montana Veterinarian Slowly and Carefully Brings a Frozen, Unresponsive Long Haired Cat Back to Life

During the extreme cold that hit the state of Montana during the first week of February 2019, a pair of humans found that their cat Fluffy had gotten | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Focus Music Is Designed to Minimize Distractions

Cheddar takes a look at the booming industry of focus music, specifically how these tracks organically minimize distractions by working with the listeners | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Wonderfully Amusing Animation That Imagines How Baguettes Would Move If They Actually Could

Dave Packer of Sheepfilms (previously) has created "Baguette Locomotion", an amusing animation that imagines how the thin loaves of crusty bread would | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Pennsylvania Bird Lover Spots a Rare Half-Male Half-Female Cardinal Perched on a Tree in Her Backyard

Longtime Pennsylvania bird watcher Shirley Caldwell captured beautiful photos through her Erie kitchen window, of an incredibly rare gynandromorph | Continue reading


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Narcissist Word Search

Narcissist Word Search by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands | Continue reading


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A Creative Woodworker Builds a Rube Goldberg Style Automatic Dog Petter for His Two Beloved Doggos

Michigan woodworker Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks who once built a marvelous beer dispensing chair in the shape of his beloved state, crafted a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How ‘A Quiet Place’ and ‘Bird Box’ Symbolize the Crippling Anxiety That Comes With Being New Parents

Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

French Freediver Explores the Ocean For 10 Minutes on a Single Breath in ‘One Breath Around The World’

In the hypnotically gorgeous short film "One Breath Around The World", French freediving champion Guillaume Néry swam to the ocean floor and began gliding | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Steve Buscemi Reacts to the Incredibly Realistic Deepfake Video of Jennifer Lawrence Wearing His Face

While appearing on The Late Show, legendary actor Steve Buscemi talked to host Stephen Colbert about his role as God in the new series Miracle Workers and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Remarkable Six Minute Timelapse Showing a Single Cell Zygote Developing Into an Alpine Newt Tadpole

Dutch filmmaker Jan van IJken (previously) has created "Becoming", amazing timelapse footage capturing a single cell Alpine newt zygote as it develops, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Call a Truce to Their Feud by Creating Ads for Each Other’s Company

It all started in 2015 after Ryan Reynolds poked fun at fellow actor Hugh Jackman, who was promoting the final Wolverine film Logan on Twitter. Reynolds | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Mob of Mongooses Following Closely Behind a Baby Goat Hilariously Scatter When He Turns Around

An adorable baby goat named Abel at the Harnas Wildlife Foundation in Namibia, Africa, quite bravely stood his ground while a mob of very playful banded | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Surreal Series of Crocheted Masks Representing How People Portray Themselves Online

Irish performance artist Threadstories has created a somewhat eerie but highly symbolic series of surreal crocheted masks, some of which have a great deal | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Brilliantly Manic Cover of Tom Waits’ Wonderfully Frenzied Anthem ‘Going Out West’

Nick Parton, a British musician and self-described "Raindog", performed a brilliantly manic cover of the guitar-heavy, wonderfully frenzied Tom Waits | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Regional Terms For Carbonated Beverages

xkcd has created a comprehensive Carbonated Beverage Language Map to help reduce confusion with regional refreshment terminology. There's one person in | Continue reading


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Recommendo, A Handy Book of Helpful Recommended Favorite Things Compiled From a Weekly Email List

Author Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, in partnership with Boing Boing | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Engineers Feverishly Work to Build a Robotic Dog for an Overbearing Boss in the Animated Short ‘A Model Dog’

In the animated short "A Model Dog" by illustrator Joel Plosz, a team of two engineers work feverishly behind the scenes to build a robotic canine in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Oddly Paradoxical History of the Iconic DeLorean

In a fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards takes a look at the oddly paradoxical history of the incredibly distinctive DMC DeLorean. The car | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Change Becomes Inevitable for a Selfish Phil Connors as He Lives ‘Groundhog Day’ Over and Over

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of the video essay series Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at the "Inescapable Premise" of the 1993 film Groundhog Day. The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Founder of Lexicon Branding Shares How They Named Such Iconic Products as Swiffer, Fios and BlackBerry

Meghan McDonough of Quartz contacted David Placek, founder of the legendary Lexicon Branding in Sausalito, California, to speak about how the company came | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Missing Crucial Ingredient That Prevents White Chocolate From Being Considered a True Chocolate

ACS Reactions takes a look at the specific ingredients and the chemistry behind creating the cocoa butter based confection white chocolate. The narrator | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How 50 Different People From 50 Different States In the United States Refer to a Fizzy Soft Drink (Soda vs Pop)

In a quenching episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Culturally Speaking, 50 people from 50 different states within the USA shared their regional name | Continue reading


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Eye of the Tiger

This tiger is a true survivor. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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A Chatty Green Parrot Gleefully Performs Graceful Somersaults Inside the Palm of a Human’s Hand

A big, beautiful chatty green parrot in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai, Vietnam very gleefully performed graceful somersaults inside the palm of a human's hand. The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Transformers Themed Band The Cybertronic Spree Performs Cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’

The rock star robots of The Cybertronic Spree, a Transformers themed tribute band that embraces everything about video games, performed a really righteous | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Creative Hair Artist Creates Powerful and Fun Sculptures Out of the Dreadlocks on Her Own Head

Fashion designer and hair artist and self-described "Ivorian Goddess" Laetitia Ky creates sculptures out of the beautiful dreadlocks on her own head. Many | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Iconic Celebrities Pose With Their Younger Selves in a Wonderful Time Traveling Photoshop Series

Dutch photoshopper Ard Gelinck has created a wonderful series of images depicting celebrities from music, film and television as they appear in recent | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How the Iconic ‘Friends’ Ross and Rachel Relationship Offered Hope to Believe in True Love Once Again

In a heartwarming episode of their series deconstructing the individual personalities of the characters on the now-classic sitcom series Friends, hosts | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Bubbly Blaster, An Amusing Device That Turns an Upside Down Bottle of Champagne Into a Spray Gun

The aptly named Bubbly Blaster is a wonderfully amusing device that turns an upside down 750L bottle of champagne into a very tasty spray from a spray | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How the 2008 Financial Crisis and 2010 Volcano Eruption Led to More People Visiting Iceland Than Ever

Travel vlogger Johnny Harris and his wife travel vlogger Iz Harris visited the breathtaking sites of Iceland for 72 hours. While travelling the beautiful | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Ross From Friends Face-Swapped With Nicolas Cage Just Makes Him Look Even More Like Ross

spaghetticondom911 points out that if Friends character Ross Geller is face-swapped with Nicolas Cage, it just makes him look even more like Ross. Here's | Continue reading


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