A Deep Sea Look at Microorganisms That Are Changing the Chemical Balance of the Earth in a Very Good Way

In the sixth episode of the Motherboard series The Most Unknown, geobiologist Victoria Orphan and astrophysicist Rachel Smith explain how microorganism | Continue reading


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Mobilimb, An Attachable Articulating Robotic Finger That Greatly Enhances Mobile Device Capabilities

A consortium of French researchers, Marc Teyssier (Sorbonne HCI Group, Gilles Bailly (ISIR -Sorbonne Université), Catherine Pelachaud (ISIR -Sorbonne | Continue reading


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Talented Hurdy-Gurdy Musician Plays a Heartbreaking Solo That Sounds Like It’s Being Played on a Violin

Russian musician Andrey Vinogradov, about whom we've written previously, performed a heartbreakingly beautiful solo on his hurdy-gurdy, which sounded very | Continue reading


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ReActor, A Whimsical Balancing House That Spins With the Wind and Tilts Like a Seesaw From Side to Side

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Schweder (@schweder1) on Jun 12, 2016 at 5:35am PDT Performance architect Alex Schweder has designed a | Continue reading


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A Friendly Wild Grey Seal Gives a Big Hug to a Human Diver He Approached for Affectionate Interaction

British doctor and experience diver Ben Burville, whose main interest is in the well-being of wild grey seals in the Farnes Islands, has established a | Continue reading


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How Stenography Differs From QWERTY Typing

In 2015 Stanley Sakai, a stenographer by trade, visually and verbally offered a "quick and dirty" explanation about what stenography is, what | Continue reading


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The Core Principles Implemented by Early Disney Animators That Bring Their Iconic Illustrations to Life

Filmmaker Kristian Williams, who's also known as "kaptainkristian", took an illustrative look at the distinctly Disney style of animation. To do this, | Continue reading


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David Attenborough Follows the Lives of Five Different Wild Families in His New BBC Earth Series ‘Dynasties’

In honor of World Animal Day, BBCEarth announced that Sir David Attenborough, the velvet voiced narrator of so many iconic wildlife documentaries would be | Continue reading


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Unwitting Deer Covers Phil Collins’ Drum Solo From ‘In the Air Tonight’ While Walking Through a Castle Slide

Australian filmmaker Josh Ballico of Elevator5 Productions captured the hilarious sight of a deer heading straight for a children's backyard castle slide | Continue reading


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An Amazing Interactive Online Machine That Creates a Customizable M.C. Escher Metamorphosis

The Dutch media corporation NTR has put together "The Metamorphosis of Escher", an amazing narrated visual tour about the legendary artist, which includes | Continue reading


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Wilson Fisk Enlists a Fake ‘Devil of Hell’s Kitchen’ to Take Down Matt Murdock in Season Three of ‘Daredevil’

In the trailer for the third season of Daredevil, a downtrodden Matt Murdock discards his bulletproof suit, burns away the remnants of his civilian life | Continue reading


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How the Classic Cereal That Contains Neither Grapes Nor Nuts Was Ultimately Named ‘Grape Nuts’

In a fortifying episode of the Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains exactly how Grape Nuts, a cereal with a Hollywood past, got its name | Continue reading


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Yarn Obsessed Mother Crochets a Brilliant Predator Halloween Costume for Her Film Obsessed Son

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Crochetverse (@crochetverse) on Sep 26, 2018 at 2:04pm PDT Yarn artist Stephanie Pokorny of Crochetverse | Continue reading


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An Oddly Elegant Lizard Gobbles Down His Dinner

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Curry (@winston_the_tegu) on May 24, 2018 at 10:11am PDT A really handsome, sweet and intelligent | Continue reading


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A Preview of the Uniquely Stunning Artwork Featured in Volume 49 of Hi-Fructose Magazine

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag) on Sep 13, 2018 at 11:12am PDT Volume 49 of Hi-Fructose: The New | Continue reading


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Cosmic Cat Beds Inspired by Classic Spaceships

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Myzoo??? (@myzoostudio) on Feb 8, 2018 at 6:42pm PST The Japanese pet supply company MYZOO Studio has created | Continue reading


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An Autonomous Robotic Golf Caddie That Obediently Follows Golfers Around the Course Like a Dog

The Rover is an autonomous golf caddie that acts more like an obedient dog than a robot. The Rover is completely hands-free and simply requires a clip-on | Continue reading


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How Gratuitous Celebrity Cameos Disrupt a Film’s Flow

Will Schoder, a filmmaker who creates thought provoking cinematic video essays, took a humorous look at how celebrity cameos, when not done well, are | Continue reading


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HoverGlide, An Ingenious Floating Backpack That Constantly Shifts Weight on a Rail as the Wearer Moves

The HoverGlide is an ingenious backpack that constantly balances the interior load, making it seem lighter than it is. This balance is achieved with a | Continue reading


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An Anthropomorphic Bottle Opener Goes For a Bumpy But Thrilling Ride on a Virtual Roller Coaster

Actor, writer and comedian Sam Fletcher posted a rather humorous video of an anthropomorphic bottle opener aptly named Mr. Bottle-Opener going for a | Continue reading


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Creating a Unique Random Note Scale With Dyads That Propel Harmonic Motion Without a Perfect Fifth

The fast talking doodling music theorist and musician 12tone visually and verbally challenged himself to create a truly unique working scale from random | Continue reading


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Joseph of Joseph’s Machines Shares How He Creates His Wonderfully Complex Rube Goldberg Contraptions

Over the years, we've posted a number of the wonderfully complex and humorous Rube Goldberg machines created by inventor Joseph Herscher of Joseph's | Continue reading


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How to Turn a Simple Chromatic Scale Into a Badass Bass Solo Through Intense Video Editing

Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, showed how to take a simple chromatic scale and edit it to look | Continue reading


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Adorable Footage of Baby Meerkats Frolicking About

Just one month after their birth, five tiny little baby meerkats at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh New South Wales, Australia, took their first | Continue reading


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A Clever Animation Showing How Numbers Can Be Seen In Organic Shapes Created In Daily Life

In the very clever animation "Number Who", Brooklyn illustrator Gung-Kai Koo vividly shows through bright pastel colors, how numbers can be seen in the | Continue reading


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Horizontally Polarized Sunglasses That Make Television and Computer Screens Appear To Be Turned Off

Interactive artist Ivan Cash, the founder of Cash Studios, is currently running a crowdfunding project to raise money to bring a pair of ingeniously | Continue reading


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A Hilariously Ingenious Rube Goldberg Machine That Feeds Lunch to a Busy Person at Their Desk

Inventor Joseph Herscher of Joseph's Machines, who has previously built a streamlined cake server, a turkey preparing machine and a Christmas wrapping | Continue reading


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The First Eleven Doctor Whos Work Together to Save the Twelfth From a Solar Flare in ‘Doctor Puppet’ Finale

In "The Twelfth Planet", the final episode of Alisa Stern's wonderful stop-motion Doctor Who puppet series "Doctor Puppet", the twelfth iteration of The | Continue reading


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Artist Christine McConnell Makes Spooky Treats for Her Creepy Creatures at Home in a Surreal Netflix Series

Artist, photographer, and domestic diva Christine McConnell who has created elaborate alien facehugger pastries, cakes covered in bees, and other | Continue reading


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Over 200 Gastropods Compete on a Circular Tabletop Track in the 2018 World Snail Racing Championship

In July 2018, more than 200 snails took part in World Snail Racing Championship in the Norfolk parish of Conghan, England. The race, which has taken place | Continue reading


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A Star Wars Chart Showing How Fluctuating Balances Within The Force Determined Where Power Would Lie

In 2016, writers Walt Hickey and Ella Koeze of the online polling site FiveThirtyEight posted an excellent piece about Star Wars, specifically how the | Continue reading


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An Informative Guided Virtual Tour of the Incredible Architectural Details of the New York Public Library

Architectural Digest, in partnership with the Bryant Park Corporation, has created a wonderfully informative, historian-narrated virtual tour of the | Continue reading


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An Escaped Puppy Repeatedly Rings a (Knocking) Doorbell In Order to Get Back Inside the House

When Washington resident Greg Basel's three month old puppy accidentally escaped outside, he didn't have long to worry, however, as the golden retriever | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

IHOPS, A Limited Edition Pumpkin Pancake Stout

In the spirit of fall, IHOP partnered with Keegan Ales in Kingston, New York, to create IHOPS, a pumpkin pancake stout. In an informative | Continue reading


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A Particularly Playful Cow Gleefully Chases After a Giant Ball in a Festive Game of Fetch With Her Human

A very playful white cow gleefully chased a giant ball like a puppy, up and down a grassy hill in a festive game of fetch with her human. The cow was so | Continue reading


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How Improvements to Deep Fake Video Technology Is Making It Easier to Put Words In Someone Else’s Mouth

In a slightly chilling video essay, video editor Henry Baker of the Bloomberg series "Quicktake" explains how the constant improvements being made upon | Continue reading


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Yeardley Smith, the Iconic Voice of Lisa Simpson, Offers a Quick Lesson on the Slang Used in ‘The Simpsons’

While promoting her new podcast "Small Town Dicks", the talented Yeardley Smith, who has been the voice of Lisa Simpson since 1989, sat down with Vanity | Continue reading


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Kitten Hilariously Learns That the Floating Triangles Reflected in the Mirror Are Attached to Her Head

While sitting on her human's bed, a funny little Scottish straight kitten named Mimo spotted a couple of floating triangles reflected in the dresser | Continue reading


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Remarkable Footage of a Giant Moth Drinking the Tears of a Sleeping Antbird in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

Brazilian researcher Leandro João Carneiro de Lima Moraes, a biologist at the National Institute of Amazonian Research who studies local rainforest | Continue reading


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A Fast Doberman Pinscher Gracefully Runs Alongside Her Human’s Moving Car at 30 Miles Per Hour

On a sunny day in Bakersfield, California, a whip-fast, beloved doberman pinscher named Xena ran alongside her human's moving car that was going | Continue reading


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Rocketman, A Musical Fantasy Film Chronicling the Fabulous Early Years of Sir Elton John’s Music Career

In upcoming biopic Rocketman chronicles the Sir Elton John and fabulous early years of his heavily costumed career. Actor Taron Egerton plays the | Continue reading


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Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn Star in the Rian Johnson Music Video for LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Oh Baby’

In the fascinating music video directed by Rian Johnson for the LCD Soundsystem song "Oh Baby" from their new album American Dream, an loving couple, | Continue reading


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Musician Demonstrates the Wide Tonal Range of a Giant Contrabassoon That Is Twice His Size

Musician David Chatterton of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment shares the unique sound of a contrabassoon, particularly noting its wide tonal | Continue reading


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Amazing Sound Reactive Fire Tables With Flames That Dance to Music From an Integrated Sound System

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Music City Fire Company (@musiccityfire) on Sep 5, 2018 at 3:37pm PDT Music City Fire Company in Nashville, | Continue reading


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Russian Rock Band Performs a Pitch Perfect Cover of the Classic Earth Wind and Fire Song ‘September’

The talented Russian rock band Leonid and Friends performed an amazingly pitch perfect cover of the classic Earth Wind and Fire song "September", complete | Continue reading


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Clever Comics With Very Few Words That Provide a Temporary Escape From the Harsh Realities of Life

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wawawiwa Comics official (@wawawiwacomics) on Sep 7, 2018 at 10:40am PDT Colombian illustrator Andres | Continue reading


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A Giant Astronomically Correct Galactic Tapestry Created With a Cleverly Hacked Knitting Machine

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Spencer (@heartofpluto) on Aug 25, 2018 at 7:57pm PDT Sarah Spencer of Heart of Pluto has created an | Continue reading


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How Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Scarborough Fair/Canticle’ Tells Two Musically Harmonious Stories at One Time

Music writer Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays on an ongoing basis, takes a deep look at the classic Simon and Garfunkel song | Continue reading


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