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In an absolutely wonderful episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver traveled all the way to Dharamsala, India to speak with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Despite being exiled from his home country, Oliver found the Tibetan monk to be wonderfully welcoming, jovial and unafraid to talk about difficult subjects, going so […]

After watching the first sneak peek trailer the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Make: senior editor Caleb Kraft set out to build his very own baby Groot puppet that rests on his shoulder. Caleb also released a video where he demonstrates how to make your very own puppet at home. A post shared by […]

The WaterJet Channel mercilessly severs a creepy human mannequin head with their powerful 60,000 PSI water jet. Related Laughing Squid PostsEveryday Objects Cut in Half With an Extremely Powerful 60,000 psi WaterjetHow To Carve a Thanksgiving Turkey With a Powerful 60,000 psi Waterjet CutterHitachi Laptop Hard Disk Drive Cut in Half Using a Extremely Powerful […]

In the third and final episode of a three-part miniseries, narrator Joss Fong of Vox takes a deep look into the evolving digital camera technology that allow filmmakers to capture animals in far more detail in the BBC Earth series Planet Earth II than in Planet Earth. The final episode in our miniseries on BBC's […]

Sergeant First Class Nick Jones and Major Milton Campbell of the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team inducted Stan Lee, comic book legend and former U.S. Army soldier, into the Signal Corps Regimental Association at Emerald City Comicon 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Thanks Chip Beale! Related Laughing Squid Posts6th Annual Emerald City ComiConEmerald City Comicon 2013Emerald […]

On a high voltage episode of Discovery Channel‘s Daily Planet show Make It Real, engineer James Hobson (a.k.a. “The Hacksmith“) revisited a set of Wolverine‘s deadly adamantium claws that he built back in 2012 to celebrate the theatrical release of Logan. James took the claws to the next level by strapping a car battery to […]

10-year-old Michael Testa and his 12-year-old brother Nicholas Testa expertly spin and toss pizza dough back and forth in a video filmed in their father’s restaurant Carmine’s Pizza Factory in Jersey City, New Jersey. via The Big Story Related Laughing Squid PostsThe World Pizza Games Freestyle Pizza Dough Acrobatics Competition90 Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Reunites with […]

An adorable two-year-old girl runs in fear from her own shadow while on a walk outside on a sunny day. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsTwo-Year-Old Girl Sings Along to Pearl JamAn Adorable Two-Year-Old Tries Her First Warhead Sour CandyMom Takes Cute Photos of Her Rescue Dog, Zoey, and 10-Month-Old Son, Jasper

Father and son team Dan and Lincoln Markham of the What’s Inside? channel use a utility knife and cut the face off a creepy robotic Face Bank to find out what’s inside and how it eats coins. After pulling off the face, they find a sensor that triggers the bank’s coin devouring mouth. Related Laughing […]

DIY Prophacks created a video that features 3 animatronic Yoda toys having an awkward lightsaber battle while a cat curiously watches. At one point, the curious feline almost takes a lightsaber to the face. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsLegendary Yoda, A Robotic ‘Star Wars’ Toy That Captures the Jedi Master’s Lightsaber SkillsHasbro Releasing ‘Star […]

A post shared by ? (@gakugakugakugakugaku1) on Feb 27, 2017 at 9:45pm PST Japanese artist Gaku carves wonderfully intricate geometric patterns into a variety of fruits, vegetables and soaps putting a modern spin on the traditional practice of Mukimono and many of its specific patterns. Because certain produce, particularly fruit, changes color due to oxidation, […]

A helicopter appears to magically take off when a camera trick freezes its rotors in place in a video by photographer Chris Fay. Fay synced the frame rate of the video with the speed of the rotors, seemingly suspending them in time as the helicopter hovers off the ground. via PetaPixel Related Laughing Squid PostsDizzying […]

Supercut Videos has created a supercut video of superb silhouette and shadow scenes in movies. They feature scenes from films like 300, Vertigo, Ghostbusters II, and The Karate Kid. The use of silhouettes and shadow are a huge part of cinema, it can immerse audiences into a story without ever revealing too much information. They […]

Mr Sunday Movies took a look at the easter eggs, hidden references, and things missed in the new Logan film. To clear things up, he also made sure to explain Wolverine’s complex timeline. Looper added to the detective work by digging up even more interesting Logan easter eggs. Related Laughing Squid PostsNearly Every Easter Egg […]

No Good Deed is a short film, directed by David Leitch and written by Rhett Reese, that plays before Logan in theaters. The hilarious short, which stars Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, features the antihero mocking Superman in a phone booth, taking shots at Logan, and showing some butt. Wade and the other girls from the […]

A sow named Hope Apple Blossom and her six piglets who were destined for slaughter when a pig farm went out of business, instead found a brand new life in the Welsh countryside when writer Juliet Gellatley, an animal rights activist and founder of Viva! in partnership with Dean Farm Animal Sanctuary stepped in provide […]

City planner Jeff Speck explains four steps to make cities more walkable in a 2013 TEDx talk given in Washington D.C. Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his “general theory of walkability” — four planning principles to transform sprawling cities of six-lane highways and 600-foot […]

In October 2015, an adorably cantankerous basset hound whined and moaned until he got the attention he so desperately craved and then whined and moaned some more when his silly human stopped. Over a year later, the petulant dog was still whining and moaning. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsFive Dogs Patiently Wait Their Turn […]

A powerful magnet appears to defy gravity when dropped through a thick copper pipe by video blogger Oleksandr Hech. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Defy Gravity with a Rare Earth Magnet and a Copper PipeBeautiful Drip Castle Sand Sculptures That Appear to Defy Gravity20:16 MoonWalker – The Shoes That Defy Gravity!

In their Canadian artisan series Oú Se Trouve, the filmmakers of Stereokroma spent time with carpenter Pat Laperrière of Le PicBois where he demonstrated his famous woodturning machine. Using beech wood, Laperrière showed the filmmakers how to turn a big chunk of wood into a beautiful bowl. Today we’re featuring Pat Laperrière of Le PicBois […]

In a creepy-crawly episode of Minute Earth, host Kate Yoshida explains how a snake uses its unique way of moving to capture oblivious prey and how early primates were ill-equipped to defend themselves against a moving stick. .Our early ancestors were tasty snacks for everything from carnivorous mammals to birds of prey; luckily, they had […]

A TED-Ed lesson by Annie Bosler and Don Greene gives tips for how to practice just about anything more effectively. The lesson focuses on how repetition causes physical changes in the body and brain, and how experts in many different fields get the most out of their practice. Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice […]

Lifestyle guru JP Sears demonstrates how to be offended by everything in an episode of his series Ultra Spiritual Life. Sears offers more helpful advice in his book How to Be Ultra Spiritual, which is available to preorder now. Some people don’t know how to get fully offended by everything. Because I don’t want anybody […]

Nala, the beautiful long-haired Norwegian Forest Cat/Maine Coon mix who prefers to be outside in the Norwegian winter snow than inside keeping warm, adorably batted at the little snowballs that came her way courtesy of her beloved human Alexander during a snowball fight. Nala was all for it until a well-time shot bonked her directly […]

A post shared by Campbell Jones (@cambojones2020) on Jan 23, 2017 at 4:15am PST While riding through Rottnest Island in Western Australia, bicyclist Campbell Jones encountered a very friendly and very cute quokka who walked right up to his bike and said hello and even sat still for an adorable selfie with Jones. Quokkas are […]

A team of engineers at the University of Utah have developed a pair of smart glasses with liquid lenses that can automatically adjust to a person’s prescription. The glasses pair with a smartphone app that lets the user manually set the prescription, and the lenses can automatically switch between two prescriptions using piezoelectric actuation based […]

The Bag of Holding by ThinkGeek is their new and improved large grey canvas messenger bag design that comes with a lot more space for a lot more geeky goodies. It is perfect for transporting your board games, laptop, rule books, tablet, and polyhedral dice. Dear intrepid adventurer, we’re glad you asked. It’s bigger, for […]

While visiting the Kids Saving the Rainforest organization in Costa Rica, adventure host Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness set a humane trap and caughtan exquisitely prehistoric spiny tailed iguana after days of searching. Unfortunately, the iguana was not so happy about being caught and took off running once released. Related Laughing Squid PostsCoyote Peterson and […]

On a high-speed episode of Guinness World Records‘ weekly video series, Meet the Record Breakers, they traveled to a park in Toyonaka, Japan to watch martial arts expert Isao Machii attempt to set a new record for the Most martial arts sword cuts through rush straw mats in one minute. He successfully sliced through the […]

A hyper little dog in Texas named Django is absolutely fearless, having no issue with going after whatever he wants no matter the harm he might do to himself or any sentient being around him. His narrating human TheFritz423 believes Django to be suicidal. Django is a crazy little bastard with an apparent death wish. […]

Los Angeles filmmakers Jim Cummings and Dustin Hahn have created “The Robbery,” a brilliant single take short film about a drugged up and penniless woman’s convenience store robbery attempt that goes horribly wrong. This is the first episode of Fullscreen‘s ongoing Minutes Collection. image via Jim Cummings submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related Laughing Squid […]

A sweet little five year old boy in Lexington, Kentucky named Jax Rosebush asked his amused mother Lydia if he could get the same haircut as his best friend Reddy. Jax figured that the two boys could fool their teacher into thinking they looked alike if they had matching hair. Reddy and his brother came […]

Wendover Productions explains why airplanes still fly at the same speeds they did in the 1960s despite technological improvements. The answer has to do with the speeds at which engines operate most efficiently, and also what passengers see are priorities when flying. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Learning to Fly’, Titleist Explains Why Dimples Are So Important […]

A post shared by DomNX – Artist (@domnx_art) on Feb 17, 2017 at 8:49am PST California artist Dominick Cabalo (a.k.a. “DomNX“) has been drawing colorful pop culture characters on his son Nicholas’ school lunch bags for the past few years. Dominick also teamed up with the #HashtagLunchbag humanity service movement to help feed local communities […]

Oak Harbor, Washington Navy Pilot veteran Scott Brazelton built an incredible roller coaster for his three year old son, Wyatt, after their fun trip to Disneyland. KOMO News reporter Kristen Drew and her cameraman helped capture Wyatt’s excitement as he tested out the complex coaster for the first time. The coaster wasn’t just about the […]

A video titled “Vietnamese Tactical Training” demonstrates a clever technique for scaling a wall using a long stick and a pair of strong friends. via Geekologie Related Laughing Squid PostsA Man Reveals a Frightening Number of Spiders in His Yard With a Clever Flashlight TechniqueEmbarrassed by Selfie Sticks, A Young Man Invents Extra-Long ‘Selfie Arms’A […]

Adrian Weinberg of the Exotic Aquatic store in Melbourne, Australia created a fascinating Star Wars themed frog terrarium for the Exo Terra reptile show in 2016 that features a memorable scene from the swamp covered planet of Dagobah. A few daring Ewoks somehow managed to sneak into the terrarium. Weinberg explains the design process as […]

Conan O’Brien took his show on the road to Mexico where he recorded an episode with a Mexican crew and Mexican guests Diego Luna (Rogue One) and former president Vicente Fox. While in the country, Conan played soccer with locals and L.A. Galaxy star Giovani Dos Santos, told his monologue jokes in Spanish, and guest […]

In an exciting episode of the Design FX series by Wired, host Mike Seymour of fxguide takes a behind the scenes look at how Animal Logic used their digital skills to animate the superhero comedy film, The LEGO Batman Movie, for Warner Bros. Pictures. The Lego pieces are very complex to animate. All the performances […]

How It Should Have Ended created their animated interpretation of how Rogue One: A Star Wars Story should have ended. The multiple endings feature character art and animation work by Daniel Baxter, with background artwork by Otis Frampton. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Special Edition of How Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Should Have […]

The Cheesy Grin Bread Cutter by Fred and Friends lets you add a goofy smile to your sandwiches. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Japanese Bread Cutter and Mold That Makes an Adorable Pop-Up PandaBready Made, A Specially Designed Bread Cutter for Making Creative ‘Egg in the Basket’ MealsTactical Laser-Guided Pizza Cutter

A post shared by Minto Florida (@mintoflorida) on Mar 2, 2017 at 2:14pm PST Hotel and restaurant chain Margaritaville has partnered with Minto Homes to create Latitude Margaritaville, a retirement home in Daytona Beach, Florida based upon the beachside easy-living lifestyle as described in the songs of performer Jimmy Buffet. Featuring world-class amenities and design, […]

Ladies rock outer space! In the summer of 2016, Maya Weinstock, Deputy Editor of MIT News and self-described “LEGO tinkerer”, submitted her brilliant idea for a Women of NASA minifigure set to LEGO Ideas, featuring five amazing female pioneers of outer space: Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman and Mae Jemison. The […]

Inna Monastyrna, a talented jewelry artist based out of Tel Aviv, Israel has created a very cleverly designed set of stackable rings. Each ring in the set represents a single planet and creates a tiny sterling silver solar system that is readily at hand. Set of a 9 stackable rings, model of a solar system. […]

The Ncore Retro mechanical keyboard is a computer keyboard that lets users simulate the experience of typing on a typewriter but with all the modern convenience of a computer. The keyboard connects via USB and has a full layout of 104 chromium-plated and LED lit keys including number pad and function keys. The keyboard is […]

Huey (Danny Pudi), Dewey (Ben Schwartz), and Louie (Bobby Moynihan) meet their uncle Scrooge McDuck (David Tennant) in the first look at Disney XD‘s reboot of the Disney Afternoon classic cartoon DuckTales. Like the original, the new series will focus on the family of ducks having wild adventures featuring racecars, lasers, and aeroplanes. A first […]

New partners Baker (Dax Shepard) and Ponch (Michael Peña) get intimate in a new red band trailer for CHIPS, an R-rated remake of the classic television series about motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol. Despite their clashing personalities, disparate qualifications, and “a little bit of contact” the pair must learn to work together to […]

Russell Brand finds new levels of consciousness as he achieves enlightenment eating increasingly hot vegan wings with Hot Ones host Sean Evans. During the episode Brand discusses his past exploits, his new role as a father, and his upcoming comedy tour. In the throws of hot sauce induced madness, Brand performs a song for Hot […]

A post shared by Luvable Dog Rescue (@luvabledogrescue) on Mar 1, 2017 at 10:18am PST A sweet 10-month old pitbull-terrier mix puppy named Picasso at Luvable Dog Rescue in Eugene, Oregon, is a truly unique little guy. Picasso was born with a facial deformity that makes parts of his adorably goofy little face appear to […]

Binging With Babish host Andrew Rea prepares the confit byaldi from the Pixar movie Ratatouille, and like the restaurant critic in the film is transported through time and space when he eats it. Remy is an especially-clean-looking rat that’s been given the gift of Gusteau’s gastronomy. Let’s see if his signature dish is worth staking […]