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
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
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
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
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
Will Burrard-Lucas, a talented wildlife photographer and founder of the remote/trap photography device company Camptraptions made it his mission to | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
In the wonderfully surreal animation "Extrapolate" by Dutch artist Johan Rijpma (previously), a hand drawn straight line transcends the rigid boundaries | Continue reading
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
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
Michigan horticulturist Andrew Sietsema captured beautiful photos of "ghost apples" that remained hanging from a tree inside a frozen apple orchard. These | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
While diving in Port Phillip Bay in southern Victoria, Australia, award-winning cinematographer Jarrod Boord captured absolutely stunning footage of a | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dave Packer of Sheepfilms (previously) has created "Baguette Locomotion", an amusing animation that imagines how the thin loaves of crusty bread would | Continue reading
Longtime Pennsylvania bird watcher Shirley Caldwell captured beautiful photos through her Erie kitchen window, of an incredibly rare gynandromorph | Continue reading
Narcissist Word Search by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands | Continue reading
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
Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of | Continue reading
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
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
Dutch filmmaker Jan van IJken (previously) has created "Becoming", amazing timelapse footage capturing a single cell Alpine newt zygote as it develops, | Continue reading
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
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