Laughing Squid

A busy excavator operator took some time to fill a tiny toy dump truck with dirt from the construction site where he was working.

A golden retriever and her human were being watched from above by another doggie in the window, then they met and a third dog joined.

Dutch guitarist Laszlo Buring reimagined the iconic Randy Rhoads guitar solo from the Ozzy Osbourne song "Crazy Train" as Dire Straits.

Turkish fashion designer Musab Kaya folds the jeans in his Istanbul store with an amazingly efficient single snapping motion.

WTD created a fascinating 3D animation comparing the size of existing animals and their extinct ancestors.

Lowes employee Dave Urban built a parallel bar walking structure out of PVC pipes in-store for a family with a son in a wheelchair.

A smiling skydiver jumped out of an aircraft and free-floated across the sky, keeping her body fixed in a singular position as best she could.

Justin Dodd of Food History explains how the bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich became the quintessential urban American breakfast.

Charles Berthoud played a beautifully harmonic instrumental cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" on a sleek six-string fretless bass.

Adam Savage learned about full-body puppeteering from Fraggle Rock's Peter Brooke and Morgana Ignis at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Algal the Bard performed the classic Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up", the iconic fodder for Rickrolling, on medieval instruments.

After Skool animated a prescient clip from the 1990 "George Carlin: Doin’ It Again" special where the comedian complained about euphemisms.

Photographer Emmie Sperando rescued an orphaned baby bison whom she named Lucy and has given her a loving place by her side ever since.

PBS Eons looked back at the Dodo bird, a now-extinct flightless fowl thought dumb but actually perfectly suited to their environment.

Musician Max Cooper combined the musically similar Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'" with the iconic theme from The Office on piano.

Weird History Food looks at the twisty history of the Oreo cookie, noting how it was actually a knockoff of a competitor's Hydrox cookie.

Sam Malloy rescued a helpless baby hummingbird, nursed her to full health, taught her how to fly, and released her back into the wild.

Jenniabs shared a very helpful hint about peeling potatoes while explaining why the blade swivels back and forth.

"The Future of Rock and Roll" by Robin James tells the story of 97X/WOXY, the legendary independent radio station in Oxford, Ohio.

Imitative Photography explains how to capture the Wes Anderson aesthetic in photos using a variety of specific techniques.

Howard Lee showed how to make a cabinet disappear into a wall using strategically placed paint that matches its surroundings perfectly.

Animator WTD created a graceful 3D animation that compares the size of domestic and wild cats, both living and extinct.

woodsboundoutdoors showed how a paper cup is incredibly useful for boiling water over an open flame, despite its high flammability factor.

Rollo and Sadie, a pair of canine best friends, adorably talked to each other using FaceTime when they were apart from one another.

Engineer Sergii Gordieiev of The Q decided to see if and how square wheels would work to propel him forward on his bicycle.

A rescued parrot in Brazil found three tiny abandoned kittens she adopted as her own inside a hollow fence post.

Captain Pikant dove deep into the percussive history of Kraftwerk, noting how their minimalism influenced Hip-Hop and Techno.

Moyun, a talented Hong Kong musician played a gorgeous cover of the iconic Eagles song "Hotel California" on traditional Chinese guzheng.

omozoc created a stop motion animation about a childhood goal and a little blue toy car that helps propel a sleeping man to get out of bed.

The all-robotic One Hacker Band covered the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" with a green robotic head singing the lyrics.

Max Cooper played a clever mashup of The Jackson 5 song "I Want You Back" and the Super Mario Bros. theme on piano, per request.

Global Data created a 3D animation that compares the scale size of different flying creatures, both living and extinct.

Brett Goldstein played an amusing yet unbeknownst game of "Hide and Seek" with Elmo and Grover on Sesame Street for the letter G.

A pair of gentle giraffes at the Oregon Zoo used their long black tongues to accept carrots and leaves from their handler's hand.

40 Fingers played an incredibly vibrant, multi-layered cover of the iconic Earth Wind and Fire song "September" on four acoustic guitars.

Phil Edwards, who works as a senior video producer for Vox, looked into why AI art has so much trouble accurately reproducing hands.

Boogiehead created a massive video compilation of the most popular songs from each month between the years 1980 and 2022.

Researchers at The University of Western Australia filmed a previously unseen snailfish, the deepest fish ever captured on video.

Skier Frances Zuber dug out a snowboarder who was buried upside down in the snow after he crashed into a tree.

Shropshire Cat Rescue gave an adorably informative tour of their wonderful cottage-filled retirement village for senior rescued cats.

Klangphonics, a German electronic trio that creates techno music with acoustic instruments, used a power washer as an instrument.

WTD created an adorable 3D animation comparing the size of purebred dogs from smallest to largest (in height).

Phil Collins sat down with Dan Rather in 2016 to discuss, among other things, his iconic drum fill on the hit song "In the Air Tonight".

Classic footage shows Dave Grohl at the age of sixteen playing drums in his then DC area punk band Mission Impossible in 1985

An incredibly attentive dog keeps a watchful eye on an active baby to make sure that she doesn't crawl away and into something that could hurt her.

Kate Yoshida of Minute Food looked at why a number of bitter foods taste good to us when bitterness was once a warning of danger.

Everything Is Hacked cleverly used an obscure hand-signal flag semaphore system to turn himself into a human keyboard.

Rhetty for History looked back on items, inventions, and machines that were ubiquitous in past years but harder to find now.

A supergroup performed a tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd during the 2023 CMT Awards with a medley of "Simple Man" and "Sweet Home Alabama".

A compassionate man jumped fully clothed into the Grand Union Canal in Market Harborough, England, to save a baby fox from certain drowning.