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Great Big Story traveled to Northumberland, U.K. to meet with Trevor Jones, head gardener at the Gardens at Alnwick Castle, which houses the famous Poison Garden. Clad in a protective suit, Jones explained that the 95-different plants within the garden can kill or harm a living being in just as many ways and the cautious […]

Brian Kidd (a.k.a. “The Unipiper“) recently dressed as the starter Pokémon, Charmander, and rode on top of a giant poké ball at a PokéStop in Portland, Oregon while playing his flaming bagpipes. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsThe Unipiper Balances on a BB-8 […]

Tested editor Norman Chan met up with prop builder Brian Mix last month to check out his working replica of the Burroughs B-205 analog computer console seen in the 1960s sci-fi series Lost in Space. Replica prop builder Brian Mix is obsessed with the 60s sci-fi show Lost in Space, and has built a working […]

A photo posted by Ollie Vue The 3 Legged Golden (@ollievuesomuch) on Aug 2, 2016 at 9:00am PDT Ollie Vue is a cheerful golden retriever puppy who was born without a left foreleg but with a very determined will. Whether it be walking on a leash, running free, swimming, climbing stairs, playing in the sprinklers […]

Ori is a system of robotic furniture that can easily restructure itself to maximize the use of small spaces. The Ori system includes storage, seating, a desk, and a bed, all of which can be adjusted or stowed away as needed. Ori was developed at the MIT Media Lab CityHome with the stated goal of, “developing scalable strategy […]

Simon Whistler, host of the informative video series “Today I Found Out” explains why the specific alkaloid theobromine makes chocolate so potentially lethal to pets, particularly dogs. Chocolate contains an alkaloid called “theobromine”. Theobromine is in the same family as caffeine and is a type of stimulant (they both are mythylxanines). Theobromine stimulates the central […]

On a recent episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien met up with polo legend Nacho Figueras to get a few lessons on how to play the horseback sport. Conan quickly finds out that he should “stick to television.” Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid […]

In celebration of Suicide Squad smashing its way into theaters recently, Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino of Nerdy Nummies demonstrated how to make an awesome Harley Quinn themed checkered cake. A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Aug 2, 2016 at 10:03am PDT A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Aug […]

In 2014, Alaska Department of Fish and Game employee Drew Hamilton captured the amazing sight of a very slow-moving Kodiak bear who eventually took a seat next to a group of photographers who were sitting by the shore of the McNeil River at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bear took brief look at the […]

While at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, Tested editor Norman Chan met up with talented artist Dominic Qwek to check out a collection of creatures and monsters that he both digitally designed and sculpted. Norman talked with Dominic about his digital sculpting process and “how it differs from working with physical materials like clay.” Follow Laughing […]

Tom Fisher has compiled scenes from the Star Wars films to give us a look at the epic rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker. We see the challenges he faced as a Jedi, how he fell to the dark side of the Force, rose again as Darth Vader, and then finally gave his life to […]

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” created a farting swamp volcano in his laboratory by dropping dry ice into slime. The slime temporarily traps the expanding carbon dioxide gas and creates large bubbles that rise out of the bowl. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing […]

A sweet Shiba Inu named Koharu is like most dogs and can always be bribed with treats. Such was the case in which her human amusingly set out a whiteboard chart to measure how high her handshake would go. Koharu happily participated for a while, but once the treats were gone, so was her interest. […]

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The Olympic tennis final being played on a giant green screen. Filmmaker Graham Hughes took advantage of the bright green background around the tennis courts at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics using it as a green screen to set the matches in new and interesting scenes like under water, on a lava flow, and even […]

In a hilarious ad for FiberFix, the “strong as steel” tape that had been successfully funded through Shark Tank, a rather well-spoken, mustachioed character with a prominent southern drawl (played by actor Jason Gray), demonstrated its very real benefits by safely going over a cliff in a car with a roll cage taped with FiberFix. […]

The American Chemical Society series Reactions broke down the very real and potentially dangerous consequences of peeing in the pool. Urine reacts to chlorine and other chemicals used to treat pool, and those reactions create new compounds with some harmful effects. Our pools are full of disinfectant chemicals that keep then free of microorganisms, but […]

In 2007, musician, experimental instrument maker and Marcodi Musical Products founder Tim Meeks, created the Harpeggi, a really cool stringed, amplified instrument that employs the principles of guitar, piano, harp and percussion. The player taps the strings with one finger rather than forming chords to strum and can use the wooden frame to provide a […]

KickStick is a motorised staff designed by Rise Robotics that can power a rider on a skateboard up to 30 mph. The staff folds up for portability, features replaceable batteries for long riding sessions, and is built to be both durable and ergonomic. Rise Robotics will be launching an Indiegogo campaign for the device soon, […]

“Abuse” by French Canadian artist Laurent Craste is a satirically humorous sculpture series that features innocent porcelain vases, his familiar medium, that have suffered greatly varying forms of abuse, leading up to their very tragic and untimely deaths. A photo posted by The PasseNger Times (@thepassengertm_) on Jul 18, 2016 at 10:48pm PDT A photo […]

Four skydivers performed an impressive synchronized dance routine inside a wind tunnel. via Likecool, Sploid Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid Posts4 Way Synchronized Skydive Dancing202 Skydivers Set the World Record for the Largest Sequential Formation in an Impressive Display of CooperationHummingbirds Fly and […]

Last week we shared video of inventor Colin Furze‘s enormous backyard 360 swing and his making-of videos about the build. As promised by Furze at the end of that first video, he has added a two-stroke paramotor to the contraption to allow for some intense powered spinning that left him feeling a little sick. Yes […]

New York graphic artists Brian Tessler and Jon Baken of Cool 3D World have created the oddly bizarre 3D animation “Men in Chars” featuring a large group of naked men who are floating over an ocean and spinning around while seated in chairs. It gets even more bizarre when the men start screaming at the […]

Matthew Longua recently created a his own trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story using footage from the first and second official trailers and set it to the Beastie Boys‘ high-octane song “Sabotage.” via Nerdist Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsKylo Ren Violently Reacts to the New Rogue One: […]

Russian photographer Elena Eremina has created a really fun photo series that features anthropomorphic hedgehogs who star in tiny dioramic scenes of everyday life such as baking, washing, reading, painting and making coffee. Many of these photos are featured in Eremina’s new calendar simply entitled “Hedgehogs!” and other items that can be purchased through her […]

Sorry NBC but a green backdrop is asking for trouble. pic.twitter.com/Ad9ULnDdYh — shut up, mike (@shutupmikeginn) August 17, 2016 Comedian Mike Ginn took advantage of the green backdrop used during Olympic weightlifting events at the Rio Summer Games to add fun backgrounds to video of dancing Olympic weightlifter David Katoatau from Kiribati. Katoatau danced during […]

On August 16, 2016, redditor UnobtrusiveElephant posted incredible footage of a pink lightning bolt as it traveled horizontally across the Tampa, Florida sky. Later that day, UnobtrusiveElephant posted a slow-motion version of that same awesome strike. via reddit Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsLegless Skateboarder Italo Romano Makes Tampa Pro […]

In this hilarious video from Carbon Video, vehicles crash left and right while drag racing backwards during the “Day of Destruction” event on July 17th, 2016 at Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. via reddit Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsIn-Car Video of 130 MPH Race Car CrashJay Leno & 80-Year-Old […]

In a new episode of the adorably informative series “Simon’s Cat Logic“, illustrator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow talk about how to navigate feeding time and how to make mealtime more interesting. Many owners wonder why their cats jump up on the kitchen worktops. …it’s often because that’s where we prepare their cat […]

A photo posted by Vse Ok (@vseok) on Aug 15, 2016 at 9:28am PDT Artist Vse Ok has created a funny collection of photos that capture a Xenomorph action figure behaving like an adorable house pet. Vse Ok‘s full series of photos are available to view on Instagram, and his blog. A photo posted by […]

A very cheerful chicken named Charlie enjoys donning a pair of custom turquoise blue pants in order to waddle after the other chickens at the Snodgrass family farm in Prescott, Arizona. Apparently this is not the first time Charlie has done this, as indicated by the video title “Charlie’s back at it again with his […]

Historic hunter Shawn Woods demonstrated how to make glass and porcelain arrowheads with primitive flintknapping techniques. For the glass arrowhead, Woods used an old bottle with the warning “Federal Law Forbids the Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle,” and for the porcelain arrowhead he used pieces of a an old toilet. via The Awesomer Host […]

On a hot day in July, the New York City firefighters of Ten House, were subjected to the rantings and ravings of a female sidewalk preacher who hurled xenophobic, racist and insulting 9/11 rhetoric in the name of Jesus to passersby right in front of their door. The house, legendary for its proximity to the […]

Time lapse footage released by NASA shows the construction of a rocket fuel tank for the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket in just 60 seconds. The 212-foot tank was constructed at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsTime-Lapse Footage Shows Workers […]

The Flippist created a hand drawn flipbook animated tribute to Simone Biles and her incredible gold winning floor routine at the 2016 Rio Olympics. A video posted by The Flippist Custom Cartoons (@theflippistflipbooks) on Aug 17, 2016 at 12:47pm PDT Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsA Flipbook Animation of Leonardo […]

A retro trailer has been released for “Zombies in Spaceland,” an undead survival co-op mode for the upcoming Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare video game. The mode will be set in a “1980s amusement park complete with wild attractions, an awesome arcade, and a funky, functioning rollercoaster.” Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is currently available […]

(larger) Mark Crosby has created a Google Maps view of Frodo Baggins‘ long journey across Middle-earth from Hobbiton to Mount Doom in Mordor. image via mbingcrosby via reddit, Boing Boing Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsA Google Maps-Style Mockup of Middle-Earth From Lord of the Rings With Walking Directions to […]

While posing for mural artist Alexa Meade in April 2016, Daniel Levine got down on one knee, per Meade’s direction, and proposed to his surprised girlfriend Christina Cordova against a wall in San Francisco tagged “New Mural Soon”. Both had been body painted as black and white, 2-dimensional beings for one of Meade’s amazing signature […]

Matt Stutzman, a world record-holding Paralympic archer, demonstrated how he fires arrows with no arms in a video for Great Big Story. Stutzman won the silver medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and holds the Guinness World Record for “Men’s archery – farthest accurate distance” for hitting a target from 930.04 ft away. Host […]

The team of software engineers and product designers at Gamer Reality have created a real functioning poké ball for Pokémon Go hunters that also doubles as a handy phone charger. They are currently raising funds on Kickstarter for production costs. The ball is durable enough for impact with the ground and made out of a […]

French guitar virtuosa Tina S, who previously performed such classic songs as Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”, Van Halen’s “Eruption”, and Patrick Rondat’s “Vivaldi Tribute”, performed a heavy metal version of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Third Movement, that was originally arranged for electric guitar by Dr.Viossy. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsMoonlight […]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog, Mario and multiple versions of Gorilla perform a trippy cover of the iconic Beatles song “All You Need is Love“, featuring such “puppetized” pairs as Popeye and Bluto, Rick Grimes and zombies, and Batman and Two-Face. Just because. We though we should add some LOVE to the Internet. A Glove […]

During these unbearable dog days of summer, an adorably generous guinea pig named Oliver shared his refreshing slice of watermelon with his handsome canine buddy Nova. The two animals happily munched away in harmony, just enjoying the fruit and seemingly, each other’s company. via Pleated Jeans, Incredible Things Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid […]

The U.S. Department of the Interior posted an incredible photo of a menacing lighting bolt shaped like a very toothy Tyrannosaurs Rex dinosaur who was preparing to take a bite out of the aptly named Blue Mesa, situated high within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Have you ever seen lightning make such crazy shapes? This […]

Dr. Steve Begley explained what video interlacing is and the problems it can cause in an episode of Computerphile. When video was first being developed, it relied on analog electronics that scanned and broadcast alternating lines of a frame, and that can create strange effects with modern equipment. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related […]

A photo posted by Taybles (@taybles) on Jan 2, 2016 at 3:23pm PST Graffiti artist Justin Nanfelt along with creative brothers Taylor and Zach Calmus pooled their talents to create Taybles, a wonderful retro-styled line of handmade coffee tables that look just like old school audio cassettes, complete with cup holders, LED lights and a […]

“Hipster Cafe Level 9000” is a music video by the Van Vuuren Bros about the most hipster cafe in the world, a coffee shop named Closed that is closed all the time and serves increasingly strange and specific types of coffee. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsCool in the Cool […]

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? #dune https://t.co/bXwpdYC8jz — Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) August 16, 2016 Actor Kyle MacLachlan, who played Paul Atreides in the 1984 film Dune, responded to a fan’s request to explain the movie by doing so with a series of emoji. via Seth Porges Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Hosting.Related Laughing Squid PostsKyle MacLachlan Talks […]

Wendover Productions created a video that explains why train travel sucks in the United States compared to trips of similar distance in European countries like France. Part of the problem is due to the popularity of other forms of transportation, but there are also more complicated factors at work. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing […]

A photo posted by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (@thorbjornsson) on Aug 15, 2016 at 6:07am PDT Strongman competitor and Game of Thrones actor Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson (The Mountain) recently broke his own world record for the highest beer keg toss at the 2016 World’s Strongest Man competition in Botswana, Africa. A video posted by Hafþór Júlíus […]