An Impossible Screw That Will Only Turn Clockwise

The machinist behind Latherman's Crazy Machines shares a really perplexing screw he made that only turns clockwise within its turret. When he removes the | Continue reading


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Geek vs Nerd vs Dork

Chuck and Beans explain the difference between a geek, nerd and dork on Shoebox. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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Dog Receives a Massage From a Pair of Boxing Robots

A curled up dog, who's part dingo, was given a very comforting massage from the pair of boxing robots that the children had received for Christmas in at | Continue reading


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Countries Represented in the Form of People Play a Hilarious Game of Risk Using Real World War Tactics

In 2017, the Irish comedy trio Foil Arms and Hog put together a hilarious scenario in which countries from all over the world, represented in the form of | Continue reading


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The Myth of Pandora’s Box Told Through Animation

In the TED-Ed lesson "The Myth of Pandora’s Box", animated by Jorge Moyano and Mauricio Piraquive, educator Iseult Gillespie shares the story behind the | Continue reading


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Defensive Waves Ripple Through Honey Bee Colony

While building a comb off the branch of a tree, a colony of honey bees in Vietnam engaged in a defensive wave, a process that sends murmuring ripples down | Continue reading


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Musician Performs on a Beautiful Five-Key Basset Clarinet With a Rich Sound Perfect for Mozart

In The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's wonderful ongoing series about unusual and classic instruments, musician Antony Pay performs a bit on a | Continue reading


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Steve Carell Reunites With ‘The Office’ Co-Creators for ‘Space Force’ Workplace Comedy Series on Netflix

Actor Steve Carell, showrunner Greg Daniels and producer Howard Klein, all of whom are co-creators of the US version of The Office, have reunited for | Continue reading


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A Beautifully Animated Journey Inside a Redwood Leaf

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco have created a really beautiful animation that travels down into the molecular layer of a leaf from a | Continue reading


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The In Utero Chaos That Makes Fingerprints So Unique

David Goldenberg of MinuteEarth explains how fingerprints are formed. These singular identifiers first start out as volar pads that form in utero. These | Continue reading


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Directions to Johnny B. Goode’s Place

"Directions to Johnny B. Goode's Place" by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands via Naked Music Score, Duck Soup, Nag on the Lake | Continue reading


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An Interactive Simulator That Reconstructs Movement of a Prehistoric Reptile Using Reverse Engineering

In a fascinating study, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have reverse engineered the movement of the Orobates pabsti, an extinct | Continue reading


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Serial Killer Ted Bundy Opens Up About His Heinous Crimes in the Netflix Series ‘Conversations With a Killer’

The Netflix documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, offers a peek into the twisted mind of the serial "Campus Killer" Ted | Continue reading


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Two Hamsters Run a Very Clever Maze Created by Their Human With Five Different Levels To Conquer

In November 2018, the human behind the YouTube channel The Secret Life of My Hamster built a very clever maze with five different levels to conquer. In | Continue reading


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The Haunting Beauty of Siouxsie Sioux’s Voice Captured in Isolated Vocal Tracks For ‘The Killing Jar’

Music mixer Joh Ph posted an amazing clip highlighting the exquisitely haunting beauty of Siouxsie Sioux's voice as captured in isolated vocal tracks from | Continue reading


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British Children in 1966 Voice Their Concerns Predicting What the World Might Look Like in the Year 2000

In an eerily predictive BBC clip from December 28, 1966, British school children offered their wisdom about what the year 2000 looks like to them. Most | Continue reading


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Gorgeous 4K Drone Footage of a Perfect Rotating Circle of Ice That Appeared in a Westport, Maine River

Todd McKee, founder of Bulldog Aerials, former associate director at ABC News and licensed drone operator captured gorgeous, high definition overhead | Continue reading


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An Adopted Woman Tries to Uncover Her Hidden History in the Netflix Series ‘Black Earth Rising’

In the Netflix series Black Earth Rising, a young woman named Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel) who works for lawyer Michael Ennis (John Goodman) approaches her | Continue reading


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Gently Debunking the Old Longfellow Adage That Says ‘Music Is the Universal Language of All Mankind’

In addressing the old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow adage that says that "music is the universal language of all mankind", the fast talking doodling music | Continue reading


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Four Critically Endangered Animals Sing ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ From Les Misérables in a Powerful Animation

In the heartbreakingly powerful 2016 animation "Dream", created for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival by Zombie Studio, four very different, | Continue reading


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A Solar Powered Sound Installation Located in the Middle of the Desert That Only Plays Toto’s ‘Africa’

Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf has created "TOTO FOREVER", an apt solar powered, six-speaker sound installation located in the middle of the Namib | Continue reading


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The Top Three Winners of the Dronestagram 2018 International Drone Photography Contest

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ZEKEDRONE (@zekedrone) on Nov 27, 2018 at 8:28am PST The Dronestagram International Drone Photography Contest | Continue reading


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Fascinating Macro Footage of the Pupil of an Eye Constricting and Dilating in Slow Motion

Gavin Free of the Slo Mo Guys decided to forego British societal norms and look partner Dan Gruchy right in the left eye. Free used a long lens to capture | Continue reading


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Webcam Captures Cat Joining Dog on the Sofa to Snuggle Together While Their Humans Are at Work

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ginger cat & vizsla mutts (@ginger_cat_and_vizslas) on Jan 14, 2019 at 7:04am PST A sweetly affectionate | Continue reading


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Burning Wish, A Beautiful Project That Helps Make Burning Man Accessible to Cancer Patients

Aaron Muszalski aka SFSlim has created Burning Wish, a beautiful project that helps cancer patients and their families create a plan to attend and enjoy | Continue reading


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What Happens When Flying a Drone Inside an Elevator

The host of The Action Lab decided to fly a drone inside an elevator that was going up eight floors just to see what would happen. Unlike his previous | Continue reading


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Nike Announces Adapt BB, Self-Lacing Basketball Shoes That Pair With Nike App for a Finely Tuned Fit

Nike has announced the Adapt BB, their new self-lacing shoe that is fully enabled with the Nike app for a fine tuned, custom fit. They also announced that | Continue reading


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Woman Without Arms or Legs Shows How She Folds Laundry and Performs Other Household Tasks

In her wonderfully enabling series "How DOES She Do It?", a smiling Amy Brooks shows how she performs certain tasks despite not having arms or legs. | Continue reading


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A Tour of the World’s Largest Collection of Synthesizers

In a video report for Le Temps, musician Pierre Audétat visited the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music (SMEM) in Fribourg, Switzerland, which houses the | Continue reading


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A Spot On Analysis of Narcissism

A forthright essay written by Jim Can't Swim offers a spot on analysis of narcissism. He explains that the narcissistic individual lives in a constant | Continue reading


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If You Can, An Amusing Animation Illustrating a Very Witty Quote by Winston Churchill

For her graduation, film student Hanna Rybak wrote and directed a wonderful animation that illustrates the very witty Sir Winston Churchill quote entitled | Continue reading


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Nighttime Skiing Lit by Red Flares Fired Overhead

Nicolas Vuignier, a professional skier from Switzerland who previously created a 360º video by swinging an iPhone in circles above his head, went | Continue reading


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A Stunning High Definition Visual Journey Through New York City Captured in a Seamless Timelapse

Talented filmmaker and photographer Michael Shainblum has created "Liberty", an absolutely stunning high definition timelapse of the bustling beauty of | Continue reading


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The Triumphant Return of the Laughing Squid T-Shirt

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Stubborn Siberian Husky Loudly Objects to His Human’s Idea About Getting Up and Out of Bed

When he's not trying to drive his human's car or pouting in the bathtub, stubborn Siberian husky Zeus can be found in bed, where he'd prefer to stay. In | Continue reading


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Brilliantly Lifelike Sculptures Created From Cardboard

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ??? (@cardboardnose) on Oct 27, 2017 at 12:32am PDT Taiwanese origami artist ZhongGe creates absolutely | Continue reading


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Guitarist Plays a Badass Solo With His Hands on Fire

Musician Davidlap removed his colorful toesocks and instead donned a pair of special gloves own design, which allow big flames to burn freely without | Continue reading


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A Cozy Photo Series Capturing the Colorful Diversity of Different Homes Found Around Queens, New York

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rafael Herrin-Ferri (@allthequeenshouses) on Dec 6, 2018 at 3:00am PST Architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri has put | Continue reading


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Why Thor Needed to Embrace His Weakness, Humility and Humanity Before He Could Become a Worthy King

In a really thought provoking, prescient essay, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take discuss the Marvel character of Thor Odinson and how he | Continue reading


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World’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator Climbs an Amazing 1,070 Feet Up a Mountain Cliff in Zhangjiajie, China

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amazing Drone Shots (@drone__up) on Dec 30, 2018 at 10:17am PST The Bailong Elevator in Zhangjiajie, China, | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Cut Paper Animation Describing the Unexpected Discovery of a Living Fossil Fish in 1938

In December 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curiously sifting through a fisherman's haul for the day when she spotted | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Ingenious 3D Printed Device That Acts Like a Sponge to Soak Up Excess Chemotherapy Side Effects

Researchers at the Balsara School at the University of California, Berkeley and Dr. Steven Hetts of the University of California, San Francisco Radiology | Continue reading


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A Stunning Timelapse of Earth’s Orbit Created Using 4K Footage Taken Aboard the International Space Station

In 2013, Philadelphia photographer Bruce W. Berry created a wondrous timelapse of the Earth as viewed by the International Space Station (ISS). In | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Thanos Disappears ‘The Simpsons’ in a Couch Gag

After thinning out the Marvel Cinematic Universe herd a bit in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, a rather entitled Thanos made his way over to The Simpsons' | Continue reading


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Heart Wrenching Covers of ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Hotel California’ Performed Live on Harp Guitar

Jamie Dupuis, the remarkably talented musician who performs absolutely gorgeous cover versions of classic rock songs with his acoustic harp guitar, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Jonathan Mann Releases an Album of His 10 Best Song-A-Day Original Songs From the Past 10 Years

Jonathan Mann, the infamous "Song-a-Day Man", has been writing a song everyday for ten years now and to celebrate, he's releasing his first album. The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Short History of the Long Necked Theorbo Lute

Musician Elizabeth Kenny of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment played a beautiful Baroque era song on a theorbo, which she explained is a long | Continue reading


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A Quirky Book About Crafting With Cat Hair

Crafting With Cat Hair by Kaori Tsutaya and translated from Japanese by Amy Hirschman is an instruction book that shows how to make fun items from shedded | Continue reading


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