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Inventor Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines, who has previously built a streamlined cake server, a turkey preparing machine and a Christmas wrapping machine, has created a hilarious Lunch Feeder. This machine, like his others, incorporates key Rube Goldberg principles of tiny chain reactions to automatically send several courses of food directly into the mouth of...The post A Hilariously Ingenious Rube Goldberg Machine That Feeds Lunch to a Busy Person at Their Desk appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In “The Twelfth Planet“, the final episode of Alisa Stern‘s wonderful stop-motion Doctor Who puppet series “Doctor Puppet“, the twelfth iteration of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi), alone on a littered planet, finds himself at the mercy of a perfectly aligned solar flare that causes a crack in the universe. As the crack grows wider, many...The post The First Eleven Doctor Whos Work Together to Save the Twelfth From a Solar Flare in ‘Doctor Puppet’ Finale appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Artist, photographer, and domestic diva Christine McConnell who has created elaborate alien facehugger pastries, cakes covered in bees, and other delightfully horrific baked goods, redecorated the exterior of her parents home for both Halloween and for Christmas and recreated herself as seven different generations of women from the maternal side of her family, is now...The post Artist Christine McConnell Makes Spooky Treats for Her Creepy Creatures at Home in a Surreal Netflix Series appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In July 2018, more than 200 snails took part in World Snail Racing Championship in the Norfolk parish of Conghan, England. The race, which has taken place over the last 25 years, pits these slow moving gastropods against each other on a circular table top track, which raises money for for a good cause. The...The post Over 200 Gastropods Compete on a Circular Tabletop Track in the 2018 World Snail Racing Championship appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2016, writers Walt Hickey and Ella Koeze of the online polling site FiveThirtyEight posted an excellent piece about Star Wars, specifically how the fluctuating balance within The Force specifically affected which side rose to power. While they also included other factors such as personnel numbers, materiel and other supplies and even the weather, it...The post A Star Wars Chart Showing How Fluctuating Balances Within The Force Determined Where Power Would Lie appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Architectural Digest, in partnership with the Bryant Park Corporation, has created a wonderfully informative, historian-narrated virtual tour of the incredible hidden and observable architectural appointments within the magnificent structure of the New York Public Library. Noted historians serve as your personal audio guide through a virtual walking tour of the New York Public Library. Find...The post An Informative Guided Virtual Tour of the Incredible Architectural Details of the New York Public Library appeared first on Laughing Squid.

When Washington resident Greg Basel‘s three month old puppy accidentally escaped outside, he didn’t have long to worry, as the golden retriever pup quickly returned to the front door where the family’s Nest camera captured him repeatedly ringing the doorbell (which sounds just like a door knocker) in order to get safely back into the...The post An Escaped Puppy Repeatedly Rings a (Knocking) Doorbell In Order to Get Back Inside the House appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the spirit of fall, IHOP partnered with Keegan Ales in Kingston, New York, to create IHOPS, a pumpkin pancake stout. In an informative behind-the-scenes video, the folks at Keegans shared exactly what went into the mix, including pancake batter, maple syrup and pumpkin spice. This very limited, autumnal brew is available on tap at...The post IHOPS, A Limited Edition Pumpkin Pancake Stout appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A very playful white cow gleefully chased a giant ball like a puppy, up and down a grassy hill in a festive game of fetch with her human. The cow was so captivated by the game that she even started knocking the ball around by herself, although loudly complaining for her human to get involved...The post A Particularly Playful Cow Gleefully Chases After a Giant Ball in a Festive Game of Fetch With Her Human appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a slightly chilling video essay, video editor Henry Baker of the Bloomberg series “Quicktake” explains how the constant improvements being made upon deep fake video technology is making it even easier to put unsaid words in someone else’s mouth. It also makes it more difficult to spot that the video has been manipulated to...The post How Improvements to Deep Fake Video Technology Is Making It Easier to Put Words In Someone Else’s Mouth appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While promoting her new podcast “Small Town Dicks”, the talented Yeardley Smith, who has been the voice of Lisa Simpson since 1989, sat down with Vanity Fair to humorously shared all the slang words and expressions that have been used on The Simpsons throughout the series. Yeardley Smith teaches you slang words from The Simpsons....The post Yeardley Smith, the Iconic Voice of Lisa Simpson, Offers a Quick Lesson on the Slang Used in ‘The Simpsons’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While sitting on her human’s bed, a funny little Scottish straight kitten named Mimo spotted a couple of floating triangles reflected in the dresser mirror just a few feet away. As Mimo got closer to investigate, she realized that those strange triangles were attached to her head as ears. To double check, Mimo reached up...The post Kitten Hilariously Learns That the Floating Triangles Reflected in the Mirror Are Attached to Her Head appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Brazilian researcher Leandro João Carneiro de Lima Moraes, a biologist at the National Institute of Amazonian Research who studies local rainforest wildlife, captured the remarkable sight of a giant moth drinking the tears of a sleeping antbird. While it’s a bit more common to see butterflies drinking from turtles’ tears, this interaction proved so rare...The post Remarkable Footage of a Giant Moth Drinking the Tears of a Sleeping Antbird in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On a sunny day in Bakersfield, California, a whip-fast, beloved doberman pinscher named Xena ran alongside her human’s moving car that was going approximately 30 miles per hour. While that may sound slow for a car, Xena was able keep up quite remarkably. “This is Xena, my 5-year-old Doberman pinscher. I have trained her since...The post A Fast Doberman Pinscher Gracefully Runs Alongside Her Human’s Moving Car at 30 Miles Per Hour appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In upcoming biopic Rocketman chronicles the Sir Elton John and fabulous early years of his heavily costumed career. Actor Taron Egerton plays the prolifically talented musician during the time when his musical career exploded off the charts. The film is a musical fantasy, which is probably the most befitting way to pay tribute to this...The post Rocketman, A Musical Fantasy Film Chronicling the Fabulous Early Years of Sir Elton John’s Music Career appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the fascinating music video directed by Rian Johnson for the LCD Soundsystem song “Oh Baby” from their new album American Dream, an loving couple, played by actors Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn, work together to create something big. They start out with the complicated math, move onto the construction and finally test their creation...The post Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn Star in the Rian Johnson Music Video for LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Oh Baby’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician David Chatterton of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment shares the unique sound of a contrabassoon, particularly noting its wide tonal range. The giant instrument, created by Haydn and employed by Beethoven, appears to be twice the size of the man playing it. What is this big beast of the orchestra, and where...The post Musician Demonstrates the Wide Tonal Range of a Giant Contrabassoon That Is Twice His Size appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Music City Fire Company (@musiccityfire) on Sep 5, 2018 at 3:37pm PDT Music City Fire Company in Nashville, Tennessee has created an incredible line of sound reactive fire pits and tables with flames that dance to streaming music from a sound system integrated right into the...The post Amazing Sound Reactive Fire Tables With Flames That Dance to Music From an Integrated Sound System appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The talented Russian rock band Leonid and Friends performed an amazingly pitch perfect cover of the classic Earth Wind and Fire song “September“, complete with horns, strings and a guitarist with a fantastic falsetto. Their version of the song is available on iTunes. These things make us feel like dancing and since today is the...The post Russian Rock Band Performs a Pitch Perfect Cover of the Classic Earth Wind and Fire Song ‘September’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wawawiwa Comics official (@wawawiwacomics) on Sep 7, 2018 at 10:40am PDT Colombian illustrator Andres Colmenares of Wawawiwa Designs creates really wonderful comics that say quite a bit without using very many words. Colmenares told Bored Panda that he began this series in 2009 to help people...The post Clever Comics With Very Few Words That Provide a Temporary Escape From the Harsh Realities of Life appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Spencer (@heartofpluto) on Aug 25, 2018 at 7:57pm PDT Sarah Spencer of Heart of Pluto has created an incredibly impressively giant, astronomically correct tapestry with a design that encompasses the entire galaxy (and quite a bit of yarn). Spencer created this amazing piece with a...The post A Giant Astronomically Correct Galactic Tapestry Created With a Cleverly Hacked Knitting Machine appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Music writer Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays on an ongoing basis, takes a deep look at the classic Simon and Garfunkel song “Scarborough Fair/Canticle”. He notes how the musical duo took a traditional Elizabethan era tune and matched it with a musically harmonious original song written by Paul Simon. The resulting counterpoint simultaneously...The post How Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Scarborough Fair/Canticle’ Tells Two Musically Harmonious Stories at One Time appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A determined little bunny who grew very concerned about a feline friend who was stuck behind a corrugated wall, tenaciously dug at the dirt and pushed it back so that the little white cat could exit with ease. Per their human, the cat had gotten trapped when she covered up the hole. The place where...The post A Determined Bunny Tenaciously Digs at the Dirt in an Effort to Free a Kitten Trapped Behind a Wall appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sony Pictures (@sonypictures) on Sep 27, 2018 at 11:54am PDT In advance of the upcoming Mister Rogers biopic You Are My Friend, Sony Pictures posted a wonderful picture of a smiling Tom Hanks sitting outside on the stairs to his trailer, clad in a red sweater...The post Tom Hanks Debuts an Iconic Mister Rogers Sweater and Sneakers for the Film ‘You Are My Friend’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

When a severely injured box turtle who was found wandering around Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, employees at the Maryland Zoo stepped in to help. Unfortunately, the turtle’s injuries included fractures for which the treatment would hinder the terrapin’s walking ability but with some LEGO bricks and plumbers putty, the team was able make a...The post Maryland Zoo Builds a Custom LEGO Wheelchair for an Injured Rescued Box Turtle Allowing Him to Heal appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alicja Zmys?owska (@alicjazmyslowska) on Nov 13, 2016 at 3:52am PST Polish photographer Alicja Zmyslowska has captured absolutely gorgeous photos of her two beloved dogs Kiara and Cirilla interacting with beautifully lit, magical natural surroundings from all over the world. While travelling, Zmyslowska has also snapped gorgeous...The post Photographer Captures Stunning Photos of Dogs Interacting With Beautifully Lit Natural Surroundings appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A group of absolutely adorable rescued dogs outfitted with custom wheelchairs at the SFT Animal Sanctuary in Tangier, Morocco, gleefully ran around in circles outside on the pavement. A couple of dogs without wheelchairs tagged along as well. Wheelchair dogs at animal rescue enjoying playtime. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Friendly Rescued Prairie Dog Freezes in...The post A Group of Adorable Rescued Dogs In Wheelchairs Gleefully Run Around Outside During Playtime appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In Dark Phoenix, the twelfth installment of the X-Men franchise, a young Jean Grey unleashes a powerful personality after surviving a disruptive cosmic force while on a rescue mission in space that instills her with a dangerous personality over whom Jean has no control. When she returns to Earth, this new power causes a fracture...The post Jean Grey Unleashes a Powerful Personality After a Cosmic Force Hits Her in the X-Men Film ‘Dark Phoenix’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While kayaking in Kaikora, New Zealand, a group of GoPro photographers were loudly traversing the waters when a cheeky seal unexpectedly jumped out of the water and slapped photographer Kyle Te Kiwi in the face with an octopus. This surprising scene was caught on camera by fellow kayaker Taiyo Masuda. More than likely, the seal...The post A Cheeky Seal Unexpectedly Slaps a Noisy Kayaker Across the Face With the Feisty Octopus In Its Mouth appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A beautiful paper animation by Elisa Chee entitled “Lucy, The Chimp Who Believed She Was Human” tells the initially sad story of a chimpanzee named Lucy who was adopted by a human couple in an odd psychological experiment. The couple received Lucy at two days old, but as she grew older and bigger, she began...The post A Beautiful Paper Animated Film About How a Chimp Raised as a Human Eventually Returned to the Wild appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A grieving father in Ufa, Russia is believed to have placed a five foot iPhone replica as a headstone at the grave of his beloved daughter Rita Shameeva, who died at the age of 25 in 2016. Little else is known about Shameeva, but the headstone itself is carved out of black basalt, which has...The post Russian Father Creates Custom Five Foot iPhone Headstone For the Grave of His 25 Year Old Daughter appeared first on Laughing Squid.

I’d rather die as the devil than live as Matt Murdock. In very provocative split screen teaser trailer for the third season of Daredevil features on one side a Wilson Fisk as he dons a shiny white suit in preparation for his newly freed existence. On the other side, a determined, bleeding Matt Murdock burns...The post Wilson Fisk Prepares For a New Civilian Life While Matt Murdock Burns Away His in Third Season of ‘Daredevil’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Animators Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid and Ozi Oshiro have created The Tiny Chef Show, a wonderful stop-motion series that features a tiny green chef who makes tiny plant-based dishes in a custom tiny kitchen. In his first video, the Chef prepares a beautiful apple pie using a bottle cap as a pie tin. Impossibly tiny...The post A Tiny Chef Makes a Tiny Apple Pie Inside a Bottle Cap appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Kyle Frager of NeverStopExploring journeyed inland from his Southern California home to the Salton Sea, a human-made saline lake that sits in between the Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley on the San Andreas Fault. This whole area was once considered a successful golf resort in the 1950s, with luminaries such as Frank Sinatra making...The post Touring the Noxious Sulphurous Remains of the Once Celebrated Resort Area at California’s Salton Sea appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In an natatory episode of The New York Times series ScienceTake, host James Gorman shares fascinating footage of the wonderfully shape shifting garden eels, who pop out of their hiding places in the seafloor to catch food that’s floating by. When the current is low, the eels bend to reach the plankton in the water...The post Shape Shifting Garden Eels Pop Up From Anchored Holes in the Sea Floor to Feed Then Slide Back Down appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a spiring episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott takes to the sky, strapped to the top of a small propeller plane. While Scott was soaring through the sky, the proprietors and employees of Aerosuperbatics Wingwalking explain how much wing walking safety has evolved from the very dangerous nascent years of...The post How Wing Walking Safety Has Evolved Over the Years appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A beautiful cat named Kiko temporarily tolerated a battery powered severed hand Halloween toy to rub her backside for a little while, perhaps even enjoying the vibrations from the prop, but once Kiko was done, she was done. Kiko is getting into the Halloween spirit. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Tiny Cockatiel Happily Beatboxes In Rhythm...The post A Tolerant Cat Allows a Battery Powered Severed Hand Halloween Prop to Massage Her Butt for a Little While appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Freelance writer Christie Dietz who lives in Wiesbaden, Germany, was very pleasantly surprised when she saw that a thoughtful stranger had hung a custom reserved parking sticker with a picture of her son’s bike on the very same lamppost where he parks just about every day. My son has parked his bike by this lamppost...The post Thoughtful Stranger Hangs a Custom Parking Sticker on the Lamppost Where a Boy Parks His Bike Every Day appeared first on Laughing Squid.

As part of their ongoing analysis of the dystopian world of The Handmaid’s Tale, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism take a hard look at the extreme amount of violence used against women in the series and poses the question, “Why are we still watching?” It’s not that the violence is titillating or enjoyable....The post How Violence Against Women In ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Awakens an Important Awareness to Current Events appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ?? Mel's Food & Travel log (@girleatworld) on Aug 26, 2018 at 8:05pm PDT The adventurous Melissa Hie of “Girl Eat World” writes about her travels all over the world. At each stop, Hie cleverly takes a photo of a local tasty treat against a distinct...The post Adventurous Woman Travels Around the World Documenting Tasty Treats From Each Place She Visited appeared first on Laughing Squid.

“Trapped Summer” by 3D artist and motion designer Peter Tomaszewicz is a whimsical animated ode to that feeling of being stuck in the city during the stifling, suffocating heat of summer without relief. Making things even worse is the fact that everyone else has escaped to the seaside. The idea for this animation came from...The post Trapped Summer, A Whimsical Animated Ode to the Feeling of Being Stuck in the Suffocating City Heat appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London decided to replace the London Bridge that was built in 1831 that crossed the River Thames with a newer, wider version that would be more friendly to automobiles. So they put the old one up for sale. In 1968, American businessman Robert P. McCulloch placed...The post How the Original 1831 London Bridge Crossed the Atlantic to Become a Lake Havasu, Arizona Attraction appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a banded episode of one of his insightful video essays, host Jack Nugent of the series Now You See It explains how stripes have been used throughout history to convey a sense of nonconformity with the way things are. This nonconformity can either be positive (childlike, jester) or negative (gangster, prison), but the interruptive...The post How Stripes Have Been Historically Used to Convey a Character’s Nonconformity Within the Status Quo appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview, the wardrobe team for Saturday Night Live, which is comprised of Dale Richards, Tom Broecker, Eric Justian and Donna Richards, open up about the wonderfully high paced, quick change world in which they constantly live, what their schedules are like, the creative solutions they find to ensure the character is...The post The High Paced, Quick-Change Lives of the Talented People on the Saturday Night Live Wardrobe Team appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The wonderful fast talking, doodling music vlogger 12tone went back in time to the songs he learned as a child and like any good music theorist, decided to look at the core musical structure of these nostalgic songs. What he learned was that while these songs sound simple there’s a quite bit of musical and...The post The Complex Simplicity of Songs Written for Children appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by BioBioChile (@biobiochile) on Sep 21, 2018 at 9:18am PDT A wonderfully compassionate 75 year old man named Terry Lauerman came into the Safe Haven Shelter/Cat Cafe in Green Bay, Wisconsin one day and offered to volunteer with the special needs cats whom the shelter serves. Terry’s...The post Compassionate 75 Year Old ‘Cat Grandpa’ Raises Money by Napping With Special Needs Shelter Cats appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician, actor and comedian Jack Black joined Rhett & Link on Good Mythical More to help them determine which album cover is the most metal of them all. Among their choices were Surtur Rising by Aman Armath , Holy Diver by Ronnie James Dio, The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden, The Triumph of...The post Jack Black Helps Rhett and Link Determine Which Album Cover is the Most Metal One of Them All appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2012, we wrote about British artist Tim Davies who created a wonderful 16 foot tall air-powered inflatable spider puppet with fully articulating legs. More recently, Davies created another multi-legged creature named Ocho the Octopus. Similar to its predecessor, Ocho has eight fully articulating legs and is operated by single puppeteer. Ocho the Octopus is...The post A Giant Inflatable Octopus Puppet Named Ocho appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An Asheville, North Carolina woman, who was visiting family in a wooded area, had accidentally left the door open on her minivan while bringing her kids inside the house. When she ran out to close the door a few moments later, she unknowingly trapped a wayward bear who had climbed inside. When they were ready...The post Wayward Bear Accidentally Locked Inside a Minivan Smashes Driver’s Side Window to Make an Escape appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Keith Smith, a dedicated groundsman at the Edgbaston Golf Club in Birmingham, England, shares his process for creating award-winning intricate lawn patterns with his vintage lawn mowers. This particular design won the Creative Stripes Competition in 2017. A garden wizard has spent 273 hours mowing an amazing geometric pattern into his front lawn – using...The post Dedicated Groundsman Cuts His Grass Three Times Per Day to Create an Intricate Pattern on His Lawn appeared first on Laughing Squid.