The Chemistry Behind the Crimping, Curling and Styling Products That Made Hair So Very Big in the 1980s

In a hirsute episode of ACS Reactions, a perfectly coiffed Ms. Beautyphile explains the chemical compounds and reactions behind all those crazy crimping, | Continue reading


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An Acoustic Guitar Cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Plucked One Note at a Time With a Pair of Chopsticks

With the release of the Freddie Mercury biopic in 2018, performers everywhere have been finding unique ways to cover the titular song. Musician Ralph Jay | Continue reading


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A Clever First Person Stop-Motion Clay Animation About the Consequences of Learning to Sculpt

The visual effects artists of Buttered Side Down have created "Learning to Sculpt", a very clever stop-motion clay animation that's told in first person | Continue reading


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Shoeless Shirtless Florida Man Pursues the Pernicious Porch Pirates Who Stole Packages From His Doorstep

When Thomas Penafiel of Sarasota, Florida was notified by his Nest security camera that someone was on his porch, he took off out of his house without | Continue reading


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Shiba Inu Politely Waits for Baby to Ring Bell for Treat

Haru, the rather vociferous and adventurous Shiba Inu dog, engaged in an adorable contest in which she and her human counterpart baby Abram would "Ring | Continue reading


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Determined Photographer Realizes His Dream of Photographing an Elusive Black Leopard in Africa

Will Burrard-Lucas, a talented wildlife photographer and founder of the remote/trap photography device company Camptraptions made it his mission to | Continue reading


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Finn Wolfhard of ‘Stranger Things’ Is a Teenage Rivers Cuomo in Weezer’s Video for Their ‘Take On Me’ Cover

At the end of January 2019, the band Weezer dropped the Teal Album, a surprise compilation album consisting of popular cover songs. One such cover is of | Continue reading


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Musician Finds Himself in Times of Trouble When The Beatles Vanish From Memory in the Film ‘Yesterday’

In the humorously surreal Danny Boyle film Yesterday, a musician named Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) returns from Paris to his rural English town after odd | Continue reading


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Tolkien, A Film About the Author’s Origins and the Fellowship of Friends Who Highly Influenced His Work

The full-length, feature film Tolkien explores the origins of legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien. The author, who lost both his parents by the tender age of | Continue reading


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A Pair of Psychiatrists Try to Out Analyze Each Other in a Hilarious 1990 Clip From ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’

In a hilarious clip from a 1990 episode of the classic British sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie, a couple of men sitting in a medical exam room | Continue reading


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A 3D Printed Yarn Zoetrope With Crocheted Characters That Fill Coffee Cups With Love for Valentine’s Day

Filmmaker Sam Tilson of Super Silly Films built a wonderfully charming, giant 3D printed yarn zoetrope for Valentine's Day that features a heart spewing | Continue reading


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A Straight Line Transcends the Rigid Borders of Its Geometric Grid in the Surreal Animation ‘Extrapolate’

In the wonderfully surreal animation "Extrapolate" by Dutch artist Johan Rijpma (previously), a hand drawn straight line transcends the rigid boundaries | Continue reading


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Nerdy Science and Math Themed Valentine’s Day Cards by Evil Mad Scientist That You Can Download and Print

For the seventh year in a row, the folks at Evil Mad Scientist has released this year's version of their charming, wonderfully geeky, Valentine's Day | Continue reading


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LEGO Minifigure Pals Try to Get Past Their Furry Feline Tormentor in ‘The Great Escape’ From the Playroom

In "LEGO: The Great Escape", a LEGO stop motion animation by Nukazooka, two bored Minifigures decided that they were getting a bit stir crazy inside the | Continue reading


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Translucent ‘Ghost Apples’ Created by Ice That Formed a Around Apples That Were Hanging From a Tree

Michigan horticulturist Andrew Sietsema captured beautiful photos of "ghost apples" that remained hanging from a tree inside a frozen apple orchard. These | Continue reading


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Two Aging Robots Try to Escape Life on a Locomotive in the Pixar Animated Short ‘Smash and Grab’

In a heartwarming Pixar SparkShorts animated short, "Smash and Grab", written and directed by Brian Larsen, a pair of job-specific, aging robots who have | Continue reading


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A Surprisingly Agile Bulldog Conquers the Westminster Dog Show Obstacle Course With Incredible Speed

A surprisingly lithe English bulldog named Rudy caught everyone off guard as he swiftly and confidently conquered the obstacle course at the 2019 | Continue reading


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An Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand Plays the Piano In a Remarkable Demonstration of Digital Dexterity

Researchers J.A.E Hughes, P Maiolino and Dr. Fumiya Iida from the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge have developed a truly | Continue reading


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Subscribe to Laughing Squid by Email

There are two ways to subscribe to Laughing Squid by email: You can sign up for our Laughing Squid email list (powered by MailerLite) and receive a daily | Continue reading


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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