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Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured macro slow motion footage of the fascinating sight of a raw egg that had crystallized over ten days into a remarkable, almost Van Gogh-like swirling pattern. Egg time lapse. Watch a raw egg crystallizing over a period of 10 days and breaking like...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fascinating Timelapse of a Raw Egg That Crystallizes Into a Remarkable Swirling Pattern Over Ten Days first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development team is developing a very short but freely mobile robot that can play the part of small characters in films. According to Disney, the robotic actor can walk, gesture, and emote according to whatever is needed at the time. Their first prototype is...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Disney Imagineers Build a Walking Baby Groot Robot first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Cody Don Reeder of Cody’s Lab, who previously flushed a toilet using 240 lbs of mercury instead of water, deliberately inhaled two different chemicals from separate balloons with amusing results. While it’s rather common for people to do this with helium balloons to make their voices higher, these actually made...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Deliberately Inhales Two Different Non-Toxic Gases That Make His Voice Sound Deeper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Volunteer firefighters with the Devils Peak Vredehoek Neighbourhood Watch took a moment out from their hard work fighting fires in Cape Town, South Africa to give a very parched tortoise a long drink from the cap of a bottle of water. These firefighters manage to give a turtle a drink...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post South African Firefighters Give Parched Tortoise a Much Needed Drink of Water From a Water Bottle Cap first appeared on Laughing Squid.

British comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men humorously dug into the origins of the word “America”, how the word came about, how early maps portrayed America, how the it became synonymous with the United States, and why many around the world take issue with the use...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Origins of the Word ‘America’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A pair of curious goats named Alex and Junior who live at Tammy’s Oberlin Hobby Farm in Oberlin, Ohio, stood upon a seesaw and tried to figure out what it was and what it did. The hircine pair walked back and forth until they got a reaction. The movement proved...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Curious Goat Teaches Himself to Balance On a Seesaw first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While performing in 2005 at the Barbican in London, The talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) played a rather quaint and proper cover of the 1978 disco smash “Le Freak” by Chic. This performance of ‘Le Freak’ is taken from our 2005 show at The Barbican,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Quaint Ukulele Cover of the Disco Song ‘Le Freak’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Genesis Museum has taken classic 16mm film footage from a 1973 Genesis concert and remastered it to 4K high definition. They also used an AI tool to reduce noise and to fill in video gaps where the image was blurry or missing. This was a really big project. Not...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Incredible 4K Remastered Footage From a 1973 Genesis Live Concert at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician The Doo, a guy who likes to “…play games and guitar, sometimes at the same time”, performed a flawless medley of 50 musical memes. Some of the songs originate from video games, from Tiktok, and from television shows, but mostly they come from popular memes. 50 of the best...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Flawless Guitar Medley of 50 Popular Musical Memes first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Matt Mikka of Warped Perception (previously) put both a GoPro and a dive case enclosed Insta360 camera inside a brand new dishwasher in order to capture what happens behind the closed door. Mikka filmed the entire cycle, which included the release of the soap at around the six-minute mark. For...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A GoPro and 360° Camera Inside of a Dishwasher Capture What Happens During a Full Cycle first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Animator Joel Haver, who imagined how NPCs acted when a disconnected controller kills the player and the subsequent waning enthusiasm for said game, demonstrated the uselessness of subtitles at times when a character starts speaking a made up alien language. so you don’t think we’re supposed to be understanding what...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How Subtitles Become Useless When a Character Starts Speaking an Made Up Alien Language first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a towering Ted Ed video essay written by Alex Gendler (previously) and animated by Wow How Studios, narrator Addison Anderson explains the revolutionary architectural design behind the construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building stands at an incredible 828 meters (2,716.54 feet) high and considered the tallest...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Revolutionary Architectural Design Behind the Construction of the World’s Tallest Skyscraper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

@jauncydev If dog breeds were people ? original sound – jonny devaney Performer Jonny Devaney amusingly acted out what different breeds of dogs would act like if they were people. The four-part series features such breeds as Pit Bull, Poodle, Corgi, Bernese Mountain dog, Doberman, German shepherd, English Mastiff, and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Amusing Series of Videos That Imagines How Various Dog Breeds Would Act If They Were People first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jack Black (@jackblack) After an injection, the ever-comical Jack Black hilariously transformed himself into his own version of Captain America. Black, who was dressed in a mask and a rather skimpy American flag bathing suit, happily flung his shield while unselfconsciously...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Jack Black Hilariously Transforms Into Captain America first appeared on Laughing Squid.

French comedian Loïc Suberville quite amusingly made fun of his native language, taking the absurd English sentence “A green worm pours a glass towards a glassmaker around 8 PM” and translated it into French. The resulting phrased is very alliterative, assonant, and repetitive “Un ver vert verse un verre vers...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Very Alliterative and Repetitive Absurd French Phrase In Which Almost All the Words Sound the Same first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A colony of playful Galapagos sea lions upon a Santa Cruz Island barge that they hijacked for their own, hilariously engaged in what sounded like a rather raucous burping contest. As it turns out, the distinctive noise is just juvenile pups sounding off to one another. The young sea lions...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Raucous Colony of Galapagos Sea Lions Engage In an Apparent Burping Contest Upon a Hijacked Barge first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A very focused Australian shepherd named Roo stared directly at her human and licked her nose whenever she heard the squeak of her favorite squeaky toy, as if the noise was a switch that activated her little pink tongue. According to her human, this trick was never taught. This is...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Dog Licks Her Nose Whenever a Squeaky Toy Squeaks first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Saeed A (@saeedawawdeh) Saeed Awawdeh quite hilariously photoshops pictures of himself onto the digital screen on his refrigerator just to make it look like he’s in there with his food. Awawdeh says he does this when he’s bored. everyone takes their...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Hilariously Photoshops Himself Onto the Screen on His Refrigerator to Make It Look Like He’s in There first appeared on Laughing Squid.

When a group of ducklings got stuck in his backyard pool in 2012, homeowner Evan Zucker and his friend Brian stepped in to help after the frantic mother exhausted all her own options. I found this mother duck and her 10 ducklings in my backyard swimming pool this morning. The...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Compassionate Humans Help a Frantic Mother Duck Rescue Her Ducklings From a Swimming Pool first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While touring the Sand River in the MalaMala Private Game Reserve at South Africa’s Kruger National Park, safari guide and photographer Reggi Barreto captured the remarkable sight of a rather cheeky turtle fearlessly informing invading lions stopping for a drink to promptly leave his swimming hole. The tiny terrapin first...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fearless Turtle Chases Lions Away From His Waterhole first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An enduring episode of the KQED series “Deep Look” examines the hydra, a tiny, seemingly immortal organism that lives in tropical freshwaters. The hydra has neither eyes nor brain but does have a big mouth and an uncanny ability to regenerate every part of itself despite the most catastrophic injury....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Incredible Immortality of the Fresh-Water Hydra first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Twitter user CinnamonBear9 shared photos of an amazing personalized bedroom that they built for their beloved tuxedo cat. The room, which was built in the corner of what appears to be a dormer space, features a braided rug, a little bed on a wooden frame with fluffy pillows and a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Couple Builds Beloved Cat His Own Personal Bedroom With Matching Blankets and a Working Television first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reddit (@reddit) Gamer Yamaha234 shared on Reddit a surprising discovery that his in-laws made underneath the carpet of a room in their home. The couple had been tearing out the carpet when a giant Monopoly board that was pained directly onto...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Homeowners Find a Giant Monopoly Board Painted on the Floor While Tearing Out the Carpet first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Swedish artist and craftsman Love Hulten (previously) has created a commissioned cabinet that is a near replica of the IBM 2401 Magentic Tape Unit. While reels are non-functional, every bit of this remarkable piece is a replica of the original machine from 1964. The cabinet itself offers ample storage space...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Clever Custom Storage Cabinet Inspired by the Classic 1964 IBM 2401 Magnetic Tape Unit first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Los Angeles Funk band Scary Pockets partnered with Frankfurt Radio Big Band to perform a brilliant cover of the 2001 Daft Punk song “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. Singer Swatkins effortlessly performed all the vocals using a talk box with his mouth. A funk cover of Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Brilliant Funk, Big Band and Talk Box Cover of the 2001 Daft Punk Song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A very resourceful beaver named Filbert, the “branch manager” at the Oregon Zoo located the perfect wooden branch for himself and his faithful partner Maple the “stick broker”. Sadly, the branch did not fit through the doorway. For others, this would present a problem but Filbert quickly gnawed off the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Resourceful Beaver Gnaws Off the Large End of a Tree Branch When It Won’t Fit Through the Door first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured super slow motion macro footage of graceful drops of water falling into coffee, milk and oil. Water Droplet Macro Art – Mixing water droplets with milk, coffee, and oil droplets, filmed with macro lens and high speed camera at 20.000 frames per second....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Graceful Water Droplets Captured in Super Slow Motion first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Landon Dickerson Jr. (@boops_alot) An absolutely adorable and very clever two year old who goes by the name Boops walked up to a map on the wall and correctly located all of the US states and bodies of water that an...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Clever Toddler Correctly Locates US States on Map first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Comedian Scott Seiss quite amusingly took on the persona of a frustrated “part-time seasonal” employee of furniture giant IKEA and offered very honest answers to some of the most common inane questions and comments that are asked/made by customers. Seiss’s forthright responses are most likely in the heads of real...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Frustrated Part-Time Seasonal IKEA Employee Offers Honest Answers to the Most Inane Customer Questions first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Dutch artist Rajacenna van Dam, who is known for being ambidextrous and for her hyperrealistic portraits, sat down with 60 Second Docs to explain how she is able to draw using each hand independently from the other. Rajacenna also talks about her favorite subject to draw (Taylor Swift), her beloved...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Ambidextrous Artist Draws With Both Hands at Once first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Japanese infrastructure company Kandeko has created a beautiful ad for which material artists used a special Smart X electro-conductive thread, which easily connects to circuits and batteries, to sew a wondrous miniature city landscape with working lights. When you make various shapes with a special conductive thread Smart-X on the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wondrous Miniature Cityscape Sewn With Electricity Conducting Thread to Make the Lights Shine first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An adorable pair of peach-faced lovebirds sat on the kitchen table and kept themselves busy making new feathers out of printer paper that their human had left for them. The pair diligently cut out “feathers” with their beaks and attached them to their respective backsides. I always take videos of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Busy Lovebirds Make New Feathers Out of Paper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Animator TrTveT had a bit of fun when his cat climbed inside a long horizontal box with open sides that he was holding. The man then made his way over to the bed with the box and launched the cat onto the soft surface. The cat had such a blast...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Cat Repeatedly Jumps Into a Long Horizontal Box to Be Launched Onto the Bed Over and Over Again first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mini Wall of Sound (@mini_wall_of_sound) While stuck at home during the lockdown, Grateful Dead fan Anthony Coscia decided that he wanted to build a miniature version of the band’s legendary short-lived, but brilliant sound system known as the “Wall of Sound”....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Grateful Dead Fan Builds an Incredible Miniature Replica of the Band’s Legendary ‘Wall of Sound’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Luna Lee, known for playing popular songs on her traditional Gayageum, performed a groovy cover of the iconic 1967 Jefferson Airplane song “Somebody to Love” based on a fan request. This tune was my Patreon song suggestion last month. It was so fun to play! I loved all the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Groovy Gayageum Cover of the Iconic 1967 Jefferson Airplane Song ‘Somebody To Love’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

As part of his ongoing Mystery Metal Sculpture series, metal artists Jason Hurst of Works by a Hurst received a box of bicycle chains from a fan with the challenge to make something from them. Hurst complied and built a fully articulating octopus sculpture that he named “Wasabi”. I weld...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Metal Artist Builds a Fully Articulating Octopus Sculpture Out of a Mystery Box of Bicycle Chains first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Architectural blog The B1M takes a look at the newly approved Stad Ship Tunnel in Norway that will bypass the treacherous Stadhavet Sea at its narrowest point. The tunnel will accommodate cruise ships and other large sea vehicles, the first of its kind. The work begins in 2022 and will...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How the World’s First Cruise Ship Tunnel Will Be Built to Bypass the Treacherous Stadhavet Sea in Norway first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A trio of absolutely adorable rescued river otters at the Oregon Zoo (previously) named Tilly, Hobson, and Flora eagerly dived into and rolled around inside a plastic bucket full of ice cubes that had been left outside the pool just for them. The three little lutrines also playfully battled one...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Adorable Trio of Rescued River Otters Playfully Battle One Another Inside a Bucket Full of Ice Cubes first appeared on Laughing Squid.

From Cradle to Stage is an unscripted documentary series that focuses on successful rock stars and their beloved mothers. The series is based upon a book of the same name, which written by former educator Virginia Hanlon Grohl and mother of Foo Fighters front man and series director Dave Grohl....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘From Cradle to Stage’, A Series About Rock Stars and Their Mothers Based on Book by Dave Grohl’s Mom first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who conducts wonderfully ingenious experiments, took a touching personal turn when he introduced his beautiful son to the world, something he’s hesitant to do so in the past because his son has autism. The reason I’m so protective of him is because he has special...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Former NASA Engineer Mark Rober Introduces His Wonderful Autistic Son to His Viewers first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The folks at Voyageurs Wolf Project in northwest Minnesota put a Vectronic Aerospace collar camera onto a wild, yet cooperative lone wolf, who offered a “first-person” tour of the neighboring woods. While the wolf’s long hair obstructed a bit of the view, it was clear that a great deal of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wild Wolf Wearing a Collar Camera Gives First Ever Personal Tour of the Woods Outside Human Presence first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mike Chiechi || Frank's Kid (@franks_kid) Artist Mike Chiechi has created a wonderfully spooky series that features the innocent characters of classic Disney cartoon shorts from the early 20th century being visited upon by the iconic villains of modern horror films....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Early Disney Cartoon Characters Are Visited by Icons of Modern Horror Films in a Spooky Art Series first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In memory of rapper DMX, who tragically passed away on April 9, 2021, Mylo the Cat (previously) lengthened a previous video mashup he created that featured the song “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” combined with the classic cartoon dog The Hunter from King Leonardo and His Short Subjects. The...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘The Hunter’ Cartoon Dog Raps the DMX Song ‘X Gon’ Give It to Ya’ In Memory of the Late Rapper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Open Reel Ensemble, who previously demonstrated how they play unspooled reel-to-reel tape like a drum to achieve a unique electronic sound, performed an abstract song that implemented not only tape drumming but tape pulling and dragging. These techniques created different varieties of high pitched droning while the percussion kept the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Experimental Musicians Pull Out and Drum on Reel-to-Reel Tape to Create an Abstract ‘Instrumental’ Song first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Alton Brown (previously), the fabulously quirky food expert and self-proclaimed Thyme Lord, came across a wonderful unaired episode from 2013 where he not only prepares a refreshing gin and tonic but also tells of the cocktail’s expansive international history. The gin and tonic may be the most interesting cocktail in...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Alton Brown Prepares a Refreshing Gin and Tonic While Explaining the Expansive History Behind the Cocktail first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While peering out of her Sheffield, England home, Anastasia Sutcliff caught a glimpse of a very angry, distrusting stray tabby cat who immediately captured her heart. To help him out, Sutcliff built a warm place in her yard for the cat to sleep and was amazed when he actually used...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Compassionate Woman Befriends an Angry Stray Tabby Cat Who Captures Her Heart first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Google, in partnership with the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, have debuted their biggest update to Google Earth in years with a timelapse that shows how much the planet and the climate has changed in the 37 years between 1984 and 2021. We worked with experts at Carnegie Mellon...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Google Earth Debuts New Timelapse Feature With a Timelapse Showing the Planet’s Changes Since 1984 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While a man named Tim was relaxing inside his house, a wild turkey walked to his front porch and began pecking at the welcome mat that was laid out on the ground. Not wanting the bird to make off with his belongings, Tim used the intercom function on his video...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Shoos Wild Turkey Away From His Front Porch Welcome Mat Using the Intercom on His Video Doorbell first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Scottish sportscaster Andrew Cotter (previously) quite amusingly chastised his very muddy dog Mabel when she decided to wander into a ditch after he expressly warned her not to do so. Mabel blamed her actions on Dave (who’s not here). Cotter then pretended that they were at a hair salon while...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Scottish Sportscaster Pretends He’s a Hair Stylist While Giving His Naughty Dog Mabel a Much-Needed Bath first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Sam Edelston (previously) performed a truly surprising but rather lush cover of the 1983 Men Without Hats song “Safety Dance” on a tabletop mountain dulcimer. Edelston had just become familiar with the song and thought it was appropriate for current times even though the original song was actually written...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Lush Cover of ‘Safety Dance’ on Mountain Dulcimer first appeared on Laughing Squid.