Kitten Doesn’t Understand How a Dog’s Tail Works

A tiny little kitten who was sitting next to stately German shepherd was repeatedly hit in the face every time the dog's tail swished. After a being hit a | Continue reading


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Murphy the Molar, A Classic 1970s Animated Dental Health Character Created in Ontario, Canada

In the 1970s, the dental director of the Ontario Health Ministry created a loveable animated character named "Murphy the Molar" in order to encourage | Continue reading


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A Cheeky Parrot Plays Peek-a-Boo With a Neighbor’s Cat With the Safety of a Glass Door Between Them

When a cheeky little parrot named Oscar saw that the neighbor's cat had come to the sliding glass door, he decided to first try to stare the invading | Continue reading


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The Transparent Larval Stage of a Developing Eel

Hashem Al-Ghaili of Science Nature posted a really informative video essay about the leptocephalus -- the fascinating larval stage of developing eels. | Continue reading


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Oversized Novelty Coins That Help to Decide Whether or Not to Give a F**k With a Simple Toss

There are those days when it's really difficult to decide whether or not to give a f**k! Luckily, Justin Heister has come up with a brilliant way to help | Continue reading


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Handsome Horse Helps Out by Sweeping Up the Stable

A very handsome horse happily helped out his rural household by picking up a broom in his mouth and began sweeping up the stable from his own stall. While | Continue reading


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‘Game of Thrones’ Stunt Coordinator Explains How He Maximizes Scene Dynamics While Minimizing Injury

With the premiere of the first episode of Game of Thrones' eighth and final season less than a month away, the very able, award-winning stunt coordinator | Continue reading


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A Hilarious Heineken Ad Comparing the Superiority of Beer Over Water With a Simple Musical Demonstration

In a hilarious ad for Heineken beer by Swedish photographer Patrik Ekenblom, a very serious Henrik Oskarsson compares the superiority of beer over water | Continue reading


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How Beings Become Aware of the Need to Be Aware

In the first of a three-part series, Munich design group Kurzgesagt takes on the philosophical conundrum about the origin of consciousness, specifically | Continue reading


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New York City Subway Riders Help a Man Carry a Giant Construction Beam Onto the Subway Train

NYC is different man pic.twitter.com/diE9KVpvRo— Zad (@ECM_LP) March 15, 2019 New York is often portrayed as a cold, hard city yet those who really | Continue reading


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Happy-Go-Lucky Therapy Dog Makes a Hilarious Attempt to Run the Crufts Dog Show Agility Course

A Romanian therapy dog named Kratu with a wonderful happy-go-lucky personality won over the hearts of the audience and of the announcers at the Crufts Dog | Continue reading


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The Physics of Surfing

In a splashy TED-Ed lesson by Nick Pizzo and illustrated by Miguel Ángel Camprubi, narrator Addison Anderson explains how physics are an invisible but | Continue reading


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The Finely Curated World of Connoisseur Coffee

The New Yorker goes inside the finely curated world of high-end coffee to learn exactly how these newly developed fourth and fifth waves are different | Continue reading


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Redrum Roll Cake, A Brilliant Replication of the Iconic Rug From ‘The Shining’ in a Delicious Edible Form

Kaci Hansen of the aptly named Homicidal Homemaker horror themed cooking/cocktail series, has created "The Shining REDRUM Roll Cake". This intricate log | Continue reading


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Swedish Actor Joel Kinnaman Answers a Series of Questions That Determine How Nordic He Really Is

While promoting his upcoming film The Informer, Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, Altered Carbon) happily answered a series of amusing | Continue reading


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A Pair of Curious Dogs Figure Out How to Operate Two-Dimensional Game That Releases Yummy Treats

Albert and Delta, two adorable Labrador retrievers, took turns figuring out how to operate a machine their engineer human (previously) built for them. | Continue reading


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Clever Buttered Toast iPhone Case That Save Screens When Landing Butter Side Down Due To Murphy’s Law

The Japanese company Fairy and You has created a very clever line of iPhone cases that look like a piece of toast, which according to the "Buttered Toast | Continue reading


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A Creative Scented Candle That Tantalizingly Looks and Smells Like a Half-Eaten Bowl of Froot Loops Cereal

Jennifer Cox of CandleLit Deserts in Nashville, Tennessee creates wonderfully delectably realistic candles and soaps that look and smell exactly like | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Little Girl Tearfully Refuses to Let Go of the Cuddly Squash That Her Mom Was Going to Cook for Dinner

An adorable 3-year-old tearfully informed her bewildered mother that she didn't want anyone to eat the cuddly butternut squash that she was cradling in | Continue reading


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True Facts About the Bolas Spider by Ze Frank

Ze Frank hilariously provides some tantalizing true facts about a Bolas spider named Nancy. What Nancy does with her butt rope is nobody's business. | Continue reading


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The Shortest-Lived Independent Country in History

In a rather manic video essay on Half as Interesting, narrator Sam from Wendover talks about which nation has had the shortest lifespan of them all. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Man Autotunes His Rescued Dog’s Persistent Whine

Back in 2013, long before Disney artist Joaquin Baldwin had autotuned his vociferous cat, filmmaker Dale Roossien autotuned the persistent whine of | Continue reading


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Distinct Sounds of the City Replicated on Electric Guitar

Musician Davidlap, who makes very creative use of his amazing string skills, recreated a number of city sounds with his electric guitar. These sounds | Continue reading


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What a Bowl of Cooked Spaghetti Looks Like When Exposed to a Frigid -12° Fahrenheit Minnesota Winter

As part of his ongoing Minnesota Cold series, native son Nathan Ziegler shows exactly what happens to a bowl of prepared spaghetti when it's subjected to | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Fascinating Timelapses of Decomposing Food

Stock footage company Temponaut Time-Lapse has created a fascinating, but somewhat stomach-churning series of compressed films that show various fruits, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Seamless Mashup of ‘I Ran (So Far Away)’ by A Flock of Seagulls With an Original Heavy Metal Guitar Riff

Andy Rehfeldt, an incredibly talented musician and producer in Los Angeles, created "A Flock of Metal", a seamless mashup of the A Flock of Seagulls 1982 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Brooklyn Warehouse That Rents Out Unique Recycled Vintage Electronics As Film and TV Props

The LES Ecology Center in New York City has always been a leader in urban sustainability but in opening their E-Waste Warehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn, they | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An In-Depth Analysis of Every Marvel Film Movie Poster

James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising who very insightfully explained how movie posters communicate through its color schemes to Vanity | Continue reading


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Stunning Sashimi Art Created Out of Raw Fish

While teaching his son the basics of sushi preparation, Japanese culinary artist mikyoui00 discovered that he had a talent for creating images out of the | Continue reading


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How the Predictable Precision of Small Flexible Devices Helps to Ensure the Safety of Products of Any Size

Derek Muller of Veritasium (previously) visited with Professor Larry Howell of the Compliant Mechanism Research group at Brigham Young University to learn | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Baby Girl’s Very First Word Is ‘Google’

Welps, my baby’s first word is Google. @google @nest pic.twitter.com/3YpPSkgWLl— Clio Chiang ?? (@cliobablio) March 13, 2019 Story artist and | Continue reading


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Entertainment Advertising Expert Explains What Movie Posters Say Through Their Color Schemes

James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising quite insightfully explained to Vanity Fair how movie posters communicate to the desired audience | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Modular Pneumatic Bionic Hand and Arm That Learns Movement Through Artificial Intelligence

German automation company Festo has developed an anthropomorphic, modular bionic SoftArm and bionic SoftHand that are both flexible for natural movement. | Continue reading


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Why Cephalopods Lost Their Protective Shells

In a dibranchiate episode of PBS Eons, host Hank Green explains the long evolutionary process in which ancestral cephalopods eventually lost their | Continue reading


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84-Year-Old Piano Player Reflects on 56 Year Career of Performing With Mermaids at a Montana Tiki Bar

"Piano Pat" Spoonheim, who has performed four nights a week for the last 56 years at the Sip 'n Dip Tiki Lounge in Great Falls, Montana, reflects on her | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Clever Animation of the ‘Angel of the North’ Using Stenciled Breath Imprints From a Helpful Passersby

On a particularly cold day in Northern England, the members of Gateshead Council Arts Team created stencils of the "Angel of the North" sculpture in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Startled Razorfish Dives For Cover Into the Seafloor

While in Cannes, France, a sharp-eyed snorkeler captured the incredible sight of a startled pearly razorfish as it dove for cover into the sand of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Hypnotic Video Showing How to Draw an Anamorphic 3D Skyline Using Simple Lines and Squares

As part of his wonderful ongoing series of art tutorials, artist Tom McPherson of Circle Line Art School shows how to draw anamorphic 3D skyline with the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Cats Cole, Marmalade, Jugg and Zig Zag Helpfully Provide Amusing Examples of Cat Anatomy in Real Life

The adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade along with little sisters Jugg and Zig Zag help out their human Chris with some really amusing, real-life | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Natasha Lyonne Uses the Hands of Her ‘Dali’ Clock to Describe What She Does During a Typical Day

In a timely episode of the New York Magazine series The Cut spoke to the wonderful Natasha Lyonne in her Manhattan home to find out what a typical day | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Throw Throw Burrito, A Hilarious Dodgeball Card Game From the Guys Who Created ‘Exploding Kittens’

Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and game designer Elan Lee, the genius minds behind Exploding Kittens and Bears vs. Babies, have joined forces again to | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Animated Map Showing Urban Growth in the Five Boroughs of New York City From 1609 to Present Day

Newark native and Columbia University student Myles Zhang has created "Here Grows New York City", a really informative animated map showing the vast urban | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Hard Work That Goes Into Making the Prosthetics for ‘Game of Thrones’ Characters So Believable

With the premiere of the first episode of Game of Thrones's eighth and final season just weeks away, the award-winning makeup effects master Barry Gower | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Tiny Hamster Rides Her Own Personal Subway Train

In 2009, Brooklyn photographer Victoria Belanger took Edie, her tiny hamster for a ride on her own personal subway train. Little Edie wandered throughout | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Determined Dog Figures Out How to Get His Favorite Toy Within Reach Without Any Help From His Human

An adorable silver Lab named Dax saw that his favorite red toy was perched upon the counter, but completely out of his reach. He tried to retrieve it | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Masterful Mashup of Depeche Mode With The Turtles, Britney Spears, Gunhild Carling and Wrestling Stars

DJ Cummerbund has quite seamlessly stitched together a masterful mashup combining the Depeche Mode song "Personal Jesus" with "Happy Together" by The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Michigan Woman Sets Up a Bird Feeder Photo Booth to Capture Spontaneous Shots of Her Feathered Friends

Ostdrossel, a native German who lives in Michigan, set up a tiny bird feeder photo booth in her backyard as a way to capture wonderful, spontaneous photos | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Amazing Timelapse of a Completely Dehydrated Desert Plant Being Resurrected With Water

The Selaginella lepidophylla, which is also known as the false rose of Jericho or resurrection plant, has an amazing capacity for dehydration. This | Continue reading


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