Setting the World’s Largest Ice Carousel in Motion

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of Beyond the Press (previously) worked with Janne Käpylehto to create the world's largest ice | Continue reading


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Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Goes For a Walk on a Leash Along the East River at Brooklyn’s Domino Park

View this post on Instagram A post shared by WhatIsNewYork (@whatisnewyork) In the hilarious vein of "only in New York", a couple walked under the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

An Amusing History Explaining How People Sometimes Show Up as a Kitten on Video Chats

A rather amusing short New Yorker documentary explains how attorney Rod Ponton accidentally joined an online Texas court proceeding with a kitten Zoom | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

‘Rick and Morty’ Bring the Whole Family Along on Their Fantastic Adventures in Season Five of the Series

Adult Swim has announced that Rick and Morty will be returning on Sunday, June 20, 2021 with a trailer for the fifth season of the series. The season | Continue reading


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Dave Grohl Tells the Story of ‘Everlong’ Before Playing Acoustic Version of the Song at Oates Song Fest 7908

Before playing an acoustic version of the Foo Fighters song "Everlong", frontman Dave Grohl told the story behind the song. Grohl talked about how the | Continue reading


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The Raw Beauty of George Harrison’s Voice Captured in the Isolated Vocals of The Beatles Song ‘Something’

The isolated vocals from The Beatles song "Something" captures the raw and earnest beauty of George Harrison's voice. It also showcases the perfect | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Making a Magical Cup of Coffee for Those on the Go

Kevin Parry (previously), a stop-motion animator who works at LAIKA in Portland, Oregon, very cleverly used creative editing to make it seem as if the | Continue reading


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Drummer Performs Percussive Cover of the Rush Song ‘Tom Sawyer’ on a Homemade Paint Can Drum Kit

Indonesian drummer Deden Noy performed a brilliant percussion cover of the iconic Rush song "Tom Sawyer" on a homemade drum kit made up of paint cans and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Group of Determined Icelanders Play Volleyball at the Foot of the Erupting Volcano on a Frigid Day

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Thelma Grétars (@thelmadoggg) As part of the ML Pepper Challenge, a group of determined Icelanders, including | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Nimoy Family Partners With Boston’s Museum of Science on a ‘Live Long and Prosper’ Spock Statue

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Museum of Science (@museumofscience) The family of the late greatly missed Leonard Nimoy have partnered with | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Harried Mother Bear Repeatedly Tries to Get Her Four Feisty Cubs Across a Busy Street

A mother of four children in Winstead, Connecticut captured rather amusing and completely endearing footage of a rather harried mother bear trying to get | Continue reading


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‘Vanishing Asia’, A Gorgeous Three Book Set Featuring Photos of Asia Taken Over the Course of 40 Years

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) Author Kevin Kelly (previously), the founding executive editor of Wired magazine | Continue reading


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Incredible Drone Footage of Thousands of Pinball Machines at the Pacific Pinball Museum Annex

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eddie Codel (@ekai) Video producer Eddie Codel, founder of the Flying Robot International Film Festival and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Compilation of Vehicles Making Emergency Stops on a Runaway Truck Ramp Filled With Dirt

Engineering and Architecture (previously) created a short but very informative compilation showing vehicles making emergency stops on a runaway truck ramp | Continue reading


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Scottish Sportscaster Teaches His Dogs to Play Poker

Scottish broadcaster Andrew Cotter took the time to teach his rather earnest dogs Olive and Mabel how to play poker. While Mabel was a bit too scared of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

The Louvre Makes Their Entire Art Collection of Over 482,000 Works Available Online For Free

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Muse?e du Louvre (@museelouvre) The Musée du Louvre announced that they have made their entire art collection | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Tiny Puppy Gleefully Plays With a Lively Butterfly

A little 4 month old puppy named Emy rolled around on her family's front porch in Mirim Doce, Santa Catarina, Brazil gleefully swatting at a very lively | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Stretch, A Versatile Boston Dynamics Gripping Arm Robot That Can Assist in Warehouse Environments

Stretch by Boston Dynamics (previously) is a single arm mobile robot designed to assist with specific warehouse jobs that require repetitive motion. | Continue reading


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Saturday Night Live Parodies the Eminem Song ‘Without Me’ To Explain How NFTs Work

A rather auspicious Saturday Night Live sketch aptly named "NFTs" featured cast members Pete Davidson and Chris Redd performing an amusing parody of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Adorable Knitted Hats For Tiny Pets

Yarn artist Viktorija of VikiPerfectGift has created an adorable line of colorfully knitted hats that fit the tiny heads of tiny pets such as hamsters, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Musical Son Hilariously Adds Sound Effects to His Mother’s Daily Life Using His Trombone

Musician Peet Montzingo quite hilariously chased his very patient mother around the house to provide sound effects to her daily life using his trombone. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

US Army Veteran With PTSD Helps Share the Solace He Found In Beekeeping With Other Veterans

In the touching Zendesk original documentary "Eric and the Bees", US Army veteran Eric Grandon of Sugar Bottom Farm opens up about his incredible struggle | Continue reading


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Farm Dog Quickly Digs Trench in the Dirt With Her Paws When a Spilled Tub of Water Barrels Towards Her

@sissysticks20 As requested without music @twiggy81 ##obsessed ##fyp ##cattledog ##dogsoftiktok ##farmlife ##foryoupage ? original sound - Sissysticks A | Continue reading


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The Worldwide Origins of Common Culinary Terms

In an appetizing episode of the Mental Floss series Food History, host Justin Dodd explains the worldwide origins of 20 different common culinary terms, | Continue reading


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Silly Dog Takes His Beloved Human For a Walk When She Clips His Leash to Her Belt Loop

@good.boy.ollie He takes his job very seriously ? #goodboy #labrador #dogsoftiktok ? Baby Elephant Walk - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra A funny Labrador | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A 3½ Minute Remix of 60 Songs From 1998 That Will ‘Praise You’ Because ‘You Only Get What You Give’

In the third installment of their 2021 reboot of the "Thursday Mashups" series, Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet remixed more than 60 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Protective Mother Hen Keeps a Litter of Three Kittens Safe From the Elements Under Her Warm Feathers

Kurdish soldier and farmer | Continue reading


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Beautifully Detailed Urban Architectural Sketches of Buildings and Homes With Lighted Windows

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ?????? (@citiesandsketches) Ukrainian artist Nikita White of Cities and Sketches, creates beautiful sketches | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Vivid Short Film Featuring a Series of Timelapses That Capture Different Flowers at Various Stages of Life

The short film "Circle of Life" by Emilie Grange (previously) is a beautiful series of timelapses that focus on different flowers at various stages of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

‘WandaVision’ Reimagined as the Intro to ‘Friends’

Graphic designer Arezoo amusingly compiled scenes from WandaVision episodes 5, 6, and 7 and put them into a meta reimgination of the iconic intro sequence | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Park Ranger Recycles National Park Trash Into Beautiful Landscape Paintings That Match the Scenery

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mariah Reading ?? (@mariahreading) Ecological artist and park ranger Mariah Reading combines her love for | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Powerful Animated Short That Imagines Plastic Waste Turning Into Fish and Other Animals Living in Ocean

Swiss filmmaker Pascal Schelbli has created "The Beauty", a powerful and very relevant animated short that imagines plastic waste turning into living | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Brilliant 3D Mural That Visually Splits Open the Facade of Palazzo Strozzi to Reveal the Art Inside

View this post on Instagram A post shared by JR (@jr) In light of the closure of museums around the world due to the COVID-19, the remarkable Ted | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Teenager Demonstrates How She Can ‘Delay’ Her Voice

Gracie Scullion of Carnegie Park, Pennsylvania showcased her unique ventriloquistic talent of lagging her voice. Scullion demonstrated using simple words | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Cooking Hot Dogs on Lava From the Iceland Volcano

A group of scientists studying the Geldingardalsgos volcano in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland decided to prepare sausages and toast matching buns using the lava | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Glow in the Dark Synchronized Finger Tutting

XTRAP performed "Piano Fingers", an amazingly synchronized finger tutting routine that kept pace with a highly danceable piano soundtrack. The group added | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

An Adorable Amigurumi Octopus Crochet Pattern

Elena Plaxina of Simpatico Gufo is selling a downloadable crochet pattern that can be used to make an adorable amigurumi octopus. The project is | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

The Animated Supervillains of DC’s ‘Legion of Doom’ Rap the Wu-Tang Clan Song ‘Uzi (Pinky Ring)’

The supervillians of the DC Comics/Hannah Barbera animation Legion of Doom each rap a verse the explicit Wu-Tang Clan song Uzi (Pinky Ring) in a mashup by | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

The Origins of African Languages

Joshua Rudder of the linguistic channel NativLang has created a highly informative animation that looks at the wide variety of languages spoken within the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

How Shakespeare’s Prolific Use of Iambic Pentameter Shows That He Was English and Not French

In a dialectical episode of The Language Files (previously) written by Gretchen McCulloch of Lingthusiasm, host Tom Scott explains why William Shakespeare | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A Sad Cover of the Village People Song ‘Y.M.C.A.’

The Melodica Bros performed a truly mournful cover of the otherwise cheerful anthem "Y.M.C.A" by the Village People turning it into a sad ballad. This | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

‘I Can Be Pretty Too’, A Book of Photos Taken While Growing Up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn During the 1990s

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brooklyn Social Club (@brooklynsocialclubnyc) Brothers Damien Bielak and Dominic Bielak of Brooklyn Social | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

How to Forge a Shiny Wasp Out of Nuts and Bolts

The host of The Q Channel (previously) shared a helpful video tutorial that shows how to forge a shiny, decorative wasp out of nuts and bolts. While the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Old Timey Musician Sings About Not Wanting Kids

Old-timey musician Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq., who previously had No More F***s to give, crooned an amusing song of his own entitled "I Don't Want Kids" | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Male Target Mantis Performs a Decorative Defensive Dance to Make Himself Look Larger Than He Is

View this post on Instagram A post shared by BugzUk (@bugz_uk) Online bug breeder BugzUK captured wonderful footage of a male target mantis doing a rather | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

A 3D Animated Size Comparison of Fictional Planets From Film, Television, Books and Video Games

Alvaro Gracia Montoya of of MetaBallStudios (previously) compared the size of fictional planets from film, television, books and video games to that of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

How 3.2 Million Tons of NYC Trash Is Processed

In a report for Insider, video producer Abby Narishkin explains exactly how the 3.2 million tons of trash generated by New York City is processed. The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Four Legged Porch Pirate Captured on Video Doorbell Footage Stealing Neighbor’s Delivery

While taking some time off at home, a dismayed homeowner discovered that deliveries were being stolen from her front porch. The homeowner and her husband | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago