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Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” demonstrates how to grow bismuth crystals at home by melting down a chunk of the element and letting it cool. When crystallized, bismuth takes a layered square shape and refracts light beautifully. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, 34-year old writer Nora Ephron sat down with interviewer Studs Terkel in 1975 to talk about her new book Crazy Salad, the roles women played in society, how women were portrayed in the media and how she was able to be […]

An overzealous Pokémon Go! player (Julien Solomita) hires an Uber driver (Jay Walker) to take him around town to catch ’em all in the comedy sketch “Uber GO!“ Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

87-year old Richmond Shepard, the world’s oldest mime, opened up to the cameras of the New Yorker to share the story of his life, his loves and the meaning of non-verbal communication over the course of three poignant acts. Every woman whose been significant in my life I met in a public place. Two of […]

In the 100th episode of the PBS Digital Studios series BrainCraft, host Vanessa Hill breaks down the human brain by the numbers. The stop-motion video covers how big the average brain is, what it’s made of, how it works, and more. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Joe Hanson, host of the PBS Digital Studios series “It’s Okay To Be Smart” took a look at the common pairing of salt and pepper and fairly explained how they became so inseparable, despite his extreme distaste for one of the pair. It essentially comes down to the fickle taste buds of Louis the Great […]

In the new trailer for their coverage of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro aka “The Greatest Show On Earth”, the BBC created a clever CGI animation portraying the native animals of the Amazon Rainforest performing amazing feats of athleticism to the Jamie N. Commons song “Not Gonna Break Me” Watch the full trailer […]

Long Island FAA-certified drone photographer David Erat of DCE IT Services has captured an absolutely stunning overhead view of North Brother Island, an island that sits on the East River between The Bronx and Rikers Island and is uninhabited by humans. The island was once home Riverside Hospital, a quarantine center that housed victims of […]

Tim Doucette was born with congenital cataracts which left him legally blind, but that has not stopped him from becoming an astronomer. He built his own observatory near his home in Nova Scotia called Deep Sky Eye where he gets a unique view of the galaxy. Surgery left Doucette with just 10% of his vision, but his unique […]

In episode of his series Amazing Places, Tom Scott visits Crystal Palace Park in London, the home of scientifically inaccurate dinosaur sculptures created more than 150 years ago. The sculptures represent models of what scientists of the time thought dinosaurs looked like based on early evidence of the extinct beasts. Because of a law in […]

On a recent episode of Man at Arms: Reforged, the awesome team of blacksmiths and craftsmen at Baltimore Knife and Sword built a real-life version of Aquaman‘s powerful Trident of Neptune. They tested out their replica by stabbing it straight through a fish tank, a group of full plastic soda bottles, and more. Help Laughing […]

In a great commercial for his new Icelandic Mountain Vodka, Strongman competitor and Game of Thrones actor Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson (The Mountain) took us through a day in his everyday life. It was filled with plenty of food, lots of weight lifting, and making sure that people really like his vodka. Everybody loves the Icelandic […]

The Cyclotron is a spokeless smart bicycle that is currently raising money on Kickstarter. The bike features an adjustable design to focus on either comfort or sport, and riders can make use of the space inside the spokeless wheels for accessories like a folding basket. The bike connects to a smartphone app that can track […]

Filmmaker Eric Moyer recreated Matthew McConaughey’s series of Lincoln SUV commercials, with help from his daughter Michelle, by filming Michelle cruising down the road in her Power Wheels Barbie Jeep and reciting McConaughey’s laid back lines. Here is the original commercial titled “I Just Liked It.” via reddit Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly […]

Alexander the Great (Zach Sherwin) and Ivan the Terrible (Nice Peter) recently faced off in a poisonous episode of Epic Rap Battles of History created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Dronémon Go by Bean of the Month is a drone used for remotely playing Pokémon Go without having to walk around in the real world. The video does not show much about the specifics of the build, but it appears the team cloned a cellphone and mounted it to the drone with a camera capturing […]

Simon Whistler, host of the wonderfully informative video series “Today I Found Out” talks about the numerous theories that attempt to explain how the term knock/touch wood became synonymous with good luck for those who knock. You’ve probably said this phrase and performed this action countless times, without the slightest clue as to the meaning […]

In “Why Do Onions Make You Cry” by the American Chemical Society video series Reactions, the narrator explains why onions and other allium plants have such a strong odor and why onions, in particular, cause tears when cut. Onions are a vegetable that belong to the plant genus allium. Along with 400 other variations that […]

HarmonQuest is a new Seeso original series where Dan Harmon (Community, Rick & Morty) and his friends play Dungeons & Dragons. The series combines animation depicting the in-game world with live action footage of Harmon around a table with the other players including Aubrey Plaza, Ron Funches, Paul F. Tompkins, and dungeon master Spencer Crittenden. The first episode of […]

Insane Cherry has taken the signature System of a Down song “Chop Suey” and recut it to dub in the odd vocalizations of various popular animal videos for a truly shrill version of the song. Among the animal videos used were “Oh Long Johnson“, Gabe the Doge, “Crybaby Learns to Swim”, Cody the Dog and […]

While performing “Come By Me” during a live performance, musician Harry Connick, Jr. used a clever trick to get his audience to clap along on the correct beat by adding on an extra note into a measure. By adding in this extra note, Connick, Jr. forced the audience off the first and third beats of […]

YouTube personality Lilly Singh shared a series of historic internet milestones like the first email, first GIF, and a few firsts that haven’t happened yet in a video for Vanity Fair. Do you know what the first email ever sent was? Or the first item sold on Amazon? Lilly Singh guides us through some of […]

Household Hacker recently shared 10 amazingly simple life hacks for making your summer that much more enjoyable. They demonstrate how to hang your flavored freeze pops upright to save space in the freezer and make them easier to open, how to easily cut corn off of the cob, and more. Help Laughing Squid grow with […]

Tim, an Irish farmer from WayOutWest has created the Chordelia, an interesting device that attaches onto the neck of a guitar and “squashes the strings” to make five basic chords. The chords can then be readily accessed through the push of a labeled lever on back. The Chordelia is also available in a three-chord model […]

CineFix recently shared 3 of their favorite, most brilliant moments from the epic ninth episode of Game of Thrones, titled “Battle of the Bastards.” Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

MinutePhysics recently explained gravitational waves using stick figures to make the complex topic a little easier to understand. The waves were theorised by Albert Einstein in 1916, but only confirmed in February 2016 by a large-scale experiment at LIGO Laboratories. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Eclectic Method has released a remix of popular video bloggers doing what they do best, vlogging. They feature PewDiePie, Jenna Marbles, Markiplier, and more. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Yarn is a documentary that profiles the very colorful lives of different yarn-bombers who have become well known for their art. Filmmaker Una Lorenzen traveled around the world to speak with each craftswoman – Olek, the Polish-born New Yorker whose style is described as wonderfully flamboyant, Tinna, the Icelandic yarn-stormer, Tilde the Swedish peace-knitter of […]

Hamilton raised a glass to its original cast with a tribute video after creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s final show as Alexander Hamilton, for now at least. Miranda’s last appearance was July 9, 2016 which also marked the departures of co-stars Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Schuyler Hamilton). That show’s curtain […]

The Cat Adoption Agency in Adelaide, South Australia posted an amusing video in which a savvy orange tabby demonstrates his tried-and-true method for properly using a toilet. This method solely requires good balance, fine sniffing skills, an entire roll of toilet paper and a little privacy. via Jim Mason Help Laughing Squid grow with a […]

In Octopi, Platypi, Walri, Oh My!, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain what determines how certain English words ending in ‘us’ are pluralized per the linguistic rules of Latin declension. Octopus, platypus, walrus–there’s something about that -us ending that makes us hesitate when we want to make a plural. The […]

Rocketscience has created a very relaxing 10-minute compilation video featuring oddly satisfying video clips of a machine flawlessly carving a piece of wood, a 3D printed object slowly emerging from a resin bath, a beekeeper harvesting honey from a beehive, and more. via The Awesomer Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

With the help of his very cooperative mom, redditor Brian Vogelgesang traveled from the West Coast to his family home in Chicago, hid in the trunk of the family car. When his oblivious dad went to help with the groceries, Vogelgesang popped out gave him a good birthday surprise, which was met with overwhelmingly joyful […]

Bugs Bunny raps the Tupac song “Hail Mary” in the latest mashup by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). Mashup of Bugs Bunny rapping along to “Hail Mary” by the late great Tupac. Featuring cameos by a ton of other Looney Toons characters. Since this is my first time doing a Pac song, I made sure to […]

In his first video since the holiday break, the wonderfully acerbic John Oliver hilariously read aloud various comments that have been made about him on YouTube and verbally turned them around so they instead, looked upon him rather favorably. Our show is uniquely boring, which again is not an insult it’s not. For something to […]

Prisma is a new camera app that uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to process photos in the style of famous artists like Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, as well as other stylized filters. Users can take a photo in the app or select an image from their saved photos, choose the filter, and adjust […]

Doctor Popular and Ernest Kahn have joined forces to create The Executive, a miniature high performance ball bearing yo-yo that is small enough to fit into the fifth pocket of your jeans. Doc Pop and Ernest are currently raising funds for their yo-yo on Kickstarter to help with production costs. The Executive is a high […]

photo via Project Apollo Archive The NASA software that helped land the Apollo 11 mission on the moon has been uploaded to GitHub. The software has been available online since at least 2003, but it was recently added to the popular code-sharing site on July 7, 2016 by former NASA intern Chris Garry. The code was […]

The musical trio People The Kangaroo captured GoPro footage of lead singer Alan Wurman‘s hand traveling around the world for 3 years and turned it into a 3-minute music video for the band’s single, “You Would Not Believe Me.” The song is currently available to purchase from iTunes. Follow a hand as it explores oceans, […]

Pawel Zadrozniak (a.k.a. “Silent“) recently created a fantastic rendition of John Williams‘ iconic “The Imperial March” theme song from Star Wars using 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and 2 scanners. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

How to Dad recently teamed up with his adorable little daughter to hilariously demonstrate the right and wrong way to install a baby car seat. Hammers and hand saws are not required. We previously wrote about How to Dad and his great DIY parenting advice. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Jack Hüttel (a.k.a. “Jack Frost“) shared footage of a toddler imitating Rocky Balboa while watching Stallone‘s iconic training montage in Rocky II. The cute little kid throws a flurry of punches, does one-armed push ups, imitates jumping rope, and more. via reddit Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

View post on imgur.com A weather radar image of rain over Texas resembled the shape of a jalepeño, so despite the summer heat it appears Texas was a little chili over the weekend. via reddit Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Hacks World demonstrates how to easily open a locked suitcase without a key by using a ballpoint pen. Whether you’ve lost the key to your own suitcase and need to get it open in a hurry or you’re trying to plant some contraband in your dodgy roommate’s bag, in this video you will see have […]

Film series Eyes on Cinema posted a really heartwarming clip from the 1991 film The Scorsese Machine in which Martin Scorsese sits down to dinner with his parents Charles and Catherine, both of whom spoke of their son with such wonderful parental pride. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

17-year-old Georgian video editor and Doctor Who fan David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has created an amazing series of seamless supercut tributes to the infamous Timelord, categorizing each into such themes as “Time and Space“, “Punishment“, “Donna Noble“, “River Song” and many more. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Filmmaking collective Chromosphere along with sound designer David Kamp have created “FORMS IN NATURE: Understanding Our Universe“, a really beautifully animated short film that demonstrates how modern technology was influenced and inspired by the vast array of shapes and dimensions found in nature. Kevin Dart of Chromosphere explained the thought behind the film. We wanted […]

For his latest project “Sweet Dreams“, Russian designer Rus Khasanov documented footage of a slow moving combination ink, glitter, oil and soap that created dreamlike patterns of brilliant color. The mood was further enhanced by addition of a beautiful soundtrack by Dmitry Evgrafov images by Rus Khasanov via Digg Help Laughing Squid grow with a […]

Furry blue puppets sing a song to teach kids “Don’t Put It in Your Mouth” in a weird 1993 Canadian PSA created by the Concerned Children’s Advertisers. via reddit Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

For his latest project, robotics artist Neil Mendoza decided to leave the knives behind and instead created an incredible hamster-powered machine that draws pictures hamsters using Raspberry Pi technology. Brilliantly meta. The Hamster Powered Hamster Drawing Machine is the machine hamsters everywhere have been waiting for, finally bringing workout selfies to the animal kingdom. via […]