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Cape May, New Jersey artist Christopher Genovese of FreakShop created an amazing collection of handmade museum quality busts that depict various pop culture icons like Walter White, Larry David, and Darth Vader. They are all available to purchase from his Etsy shop. images via FreakShop submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Remarkably Detailed Popsicles of Pop...

To celebrate the fast approaching release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi next month, video editor Tom Fisher created a wonderful recap of what has happened in the Star Wars saga so far by compiling notable scenes from the first seven films. The Coruscant Tapestry, A 30-Foot Cross-Stitch Canvas That Tells the Entire ‘Star Wars’...

Russian auto body mechanic Arthur Tussik demonstrates how he performed a full body repair to completely restore a totaled BMW 7 Series sedan, bringing it back to life. The crashed vehicle goes from looking like a complete disaster to as if it just rolled off of the lot. via Popular Mechanics, Geekologie Super Slow-Motion Video...

In an experiment to demonstrate that lizards are smarter than they seem, zoologist and reptile expert crocdoc trained a monitor lizard named Alex to wave at the entrance of the enclosure whenever he wanted to be let out, explaining each step taken to get Alex to his goal. One day I saw him doing a...

In another of their incredibly insightful and fascinating animations, the ever-philosophical design house Kurzgesagt explains the concept of emergence, the gathering of smaller things to work together to make a bigger thing with different properties than the individual parts. This can be used to describe water molecules, cells, fungi and atoms. It also accounts for...

Toronto, Ontario neurosurgeon Eric Massicott posted a brilliant collection of photos on Twitter that show what his amazing wife decided to do after their little son drew a picture of a house on a wall in their home. Instead of getting angry at the future artist, she turned his illustration into a clever framed work...

Aerial photographer Craig O’Brien captured footage of 217 incredible skydivers at Skydive Arizona setting a world record for a formation skydive. The brave group of individuals interlocked their hands and formed a snowflake shape pattern high above the city of Eloy, Arizona. All 217 jumpers exited the plane at an altitude of 19,000ft. and made...

A hopeful golden retriever did his very best to fit into a teeny tiny bed that seemingly belonged to his sneaky dachshund sibling who decided that the bigger bed would be a better fit. Rather than giving up the big bed, the little dog just looked on lazily while the bigger dog attempted the impossible....

Photographer Elsa Bleda has created an absolutely stunning photo series that captures the beauty of empty city streets at night backlit by the colorful glow of neon, reflected in the windows of the buildings bathing in the soft light. via This Isn’t Happiness, Colossal New York Neon, The Neon Signs of New York CityProject Neon,...

Slippery Stairs is a hilarious Japanese game show where a group of contestants struggle to climb up a set of stairs that are completely covered in a super slippery substance. Silly Pug Navigates Slippery Hardwood Stairs By Climbing the Steps in ReverseJapanese TV Game Show Featuring Live Action Pac-ManA Group of Determined Turtles Struggle to...

Disney released a gorgeous trailer for A Wrinkle in Time, the upcoming science fantasy adventure film directed by Ava DuVernay and based on the classic 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L’Engle. The trailer follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid), her little brother Charles Wallace Murray (Deric McCabe), and school friend Calvin O’Keefe (Levi...

Disney•Pixar released an official trailer for Incredibles 2, their upcoming animated superhero film directed by Brad Bird and a sequel to The Incredibles from 2004. The trailer follows Baby Jack-Jack as he shows off his wild collection of superpowers that he is having trouble controlling. Incredibles 2 is currently scheduled to release in theaters on...

BBC News travelled to Raleigh, North Carolina, the site of the very first Flat Earth International Conference and speak with the attendees in order to learn why they believe that the world is flat, despite scientific evidence stating otherwise. The Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, attracted hundreds of attendees who believe the...

When a traveling mum called home via video chat app to check in her daughter, she also took a moment to say hello to her beloved chow chow who just laid upon the couch and mournfully moaned into the phone upon hearing her human’s loving voice. My chow chow was talking to my mom on...

A post shared by Brittany Wright (@wrightkitchen) on May 23, 2017 at 8:24am PDT Artist Brittany Wright creates absolutely gorgeous displays of various kinds of colorful foods, including fruits, vegetables, sweets and spices that are gradiently arranged by shade in the most visually pleasing of ways. Wright’s work has been featured in various magazines, ad...

SKM created a great new tutorial video where they show how to make an electronic puzzle box, built within a cardboard frame, that jumps when unlocked. Clever Cockatoo Very Methodically Solves a Puzzle Box Puzzle Box He Hadn’t Seen In a YearThe Xbox Puzzle, An Incredibly Elaborate X-Men Inspired Logic Puzzle Game in a Wooden...

Great Big Story partnered with ANA for a new episode of their Flavors series where they travel to Tokyo to talk with Namie Osawa about the inspiration behind her underground robot themed club, Robot Restaurant. The flashy restaurant features all sorts of radio-controlled animatronics, drums, music, dancers, and an incredible array of flashing lights and...

In a funny mashup by Funny or Die, oddball heroes from various Hollywood films are called upon by Batman (Ben Affleck) to replace his original team of Justice League superheroes, who are all too busy. The Dark Knight assembles Blankman (Damon Wayans), Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson), Howard the Duck (Chip Zien), and Steel (Shaquille O’Neal)...

Evolutionary and developmental biologist Nipam H. Patel of the Patel Lab at UC Berkeley created “Squid: Coming to Life” an absolutely amazing microscopic timelapse capturing the formation of embryos inside eggs from which tiny baby squids emerge. This amazing cephalopodic birth is absolutely fascinating to watch. These are a series of images and videos of...

A fascinatingly informative satellite simulation of the intense 2017 Atlantic hurricane season shows how meteorologists at the NASA Goddard Space Center employ the use of tiny aerosols such as evaporated sea salt, Saharan Desert dust and fire smoke to visualize how a storm is moving over the ocean and track where it will probably make...

While exploring the waters of San Benedicto Island during the Revillagigedo Archipelago Dive, a Nautilus Live ROV captured remarkable footage of shapeshifting deepstaria jelly as it undulated through the water before coming to a nebulous stop in a gorgeous shape of a flower. During these first ever ROV dives in Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Nautilus team...

Renowned musicologist Robert Levin performed a beautiful version of the third movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Sonata No. 17 in B flat major on the composer’s own fortepiano. Levin then explained how modern instruments don’t really capture the sound in the same way as the instrument upon which the piece was written. One writes for...

Badass Pilot is a new five-episode series from AARP. It follows Art Nalls, an incredibly successful 65-year-old retired pilot and lieutenant colonel with the United States Marine Corps, as he ventures to England to purchase himself his very own retired Harrier Jump Jet. He bought a WWII-era Soviet YAK-3 fighter and then a Czech L-39....

A funny little yellow parrot named Bella sat upon her human’s finger and took big bites of a banana. in between each yummy mouthful, Bella adorably wiggled her body. According to Bella’s human, sometimes the urge just comes over the little bird. My little yellow parrot gets super hyped sometimes and just has to happy...

There have been plenty of cats riding around on Roomba vacuums, but now we have a super cute little baby hanging onto a Roomba to take a ride around the kitchen. Cat Wearing a Shark Costume Entertains Baby Also Dressed as a Shark by Riding a Roomba Vacuum in the KitchenBaby Rides Around on Top...

A royal episode of the animated series Half as Interesting explains the intricate secret protocol that will be set in motion once Queen Elizabeth II passes away and the phrase “London Bridge is down” is communicated. From that point all notification processes and procedures will be dutifully followed in specific order. The media will follow...

Last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s shocking new electric semi-truck and made a surprise announcement for the second-generation of their Roadster sports car, which Musk said will be “the fastest production car” made. The aerodynamic 80,000-pound (with trailer) semi is capable of a range of 500 miles and going from 0 to...

SHIFT, a group of Dutch behavioral science pranksters who seek to change human behavior by inserting subtle changes in the environment, took matters into their own hands to address a frustrating chaotic bicycle situation. The group simply used a roll of duct tape to create lines and arrows delineating turning lanes from those going straight...

In an animated TED-Ed lesson given by Scott Laderman and directed by Silvia Prietov, Laderman shares everything that he knows about the complicated history of surfing. Today, surfing is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, with tens of millions of enthusiasts worldwide. For some it’s a serious sport; for others, just a way to let loose. But...

Adam Savage of Tested visited the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens and took a glorious tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition. The exhibit showcased Jim Henson‘s amazing work from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and The Dark Crystal. A post shared by Museum of the Moving Image (@movingimagenyc) on Jul...

On an episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, Bob Saget chatted about life, shared Full House secrets, hiccuped uncontrollably, and ate progressively spicy wings while being interviewed by Sean Evans. Bob Saget became a household name as Danny Tanner on the classic sitcom Full House, as well as a legend of comedy...

Atlas, the incredible humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics has now been programmed to jump up onto boxes, spin and effortlessly perfom backflips off of boxes. What have you been up to lately, Atlas? Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Atlas Shows Off Its Balancing SkillsAtlas, A Six-Foot-Tall Humanoid Robot With Articulated Hands and Joints by Boston DynamicsSciShow...

In “DIY“, a very playful Simon’s Cat came across his human attempting to install a shelf onto the wall and in typical feline fashion, did everything he could to make it all about himself. Somehow, despite all the injuries, disruptions and distractions, Simon was able to get the shelf onto the wall to proudly display...

While visiting a restaurant in Japan, Mason Hale captured very funny footage of a waiter making it appear that a teddy bear was trying to deliver drinks to a table. Though he readied himself as best he could, the drinks proved too heavy and the ambitious teddy bear was crushed beneath the weight of the...

A post shared by ?Ralphie & BOSS? (@ralphie_the_newf_and_the_boss) on Nov 2, 2017 at 8:11am PDT A stubbornly sullen but gorgeous chocolate Newfoundland dog named Ralphie evidently had a bone to pick with his quizzical human and refused to even look at her until she gave him a great big, heartfelt apology for her wrongdoing. Once...

In a wonderful video from the Facts Channel, a redheaded 7 year old boy and a 64 year old man sat down across from one another to talk about the events of their lives in order to find out what lessons they could learn from each other being 57 years apart in age. The discussion...

A post shared by QUEENIE FERRO (@queenie.bo.beenie) on Oct 2, 2017 at 8:31am PDT An absolutely beautiful German Shepherd named Queenie, who once served her country as a K9 dog, was surrendered to be euthanized when she developed degenerative myelopathy, a disabling disease that prevented her from doing her job. Luckily Brooke Allewelt, a very...

The Knuffingen Airport, on display at Miniatur Wunderland in Germany, is the world’s largest model airport, which took six years to build and is based on the real life Hamburg Airport. The incredible airport exhibit, which first opened in May 2011, features over forty aircraft that take off and land and ninety vehicles that automatically...

In a campy episode of Now You See It, host Jack Nugent explains the appeal of films that are so bad that they’re good, the process behind making these films and the over-the-top dialogue, exaggerated effects and awkward actions that elevates these devastatingly rewatchable films to the cult status of guilty pleasure. Why do we...

A post shared by Ryan James MacFarland (@ryan_macfarland) on Nov 15, 2017 at 3:05pm PST Kimiko Nishimoto, a beautiful 89-year old Japanese photographer, who’s known for photographing detailed images of flowers, has embarked upon a whimsical self-portrait series entitle Playing Kana in which she puts herself into really amusing, surreal situations. The photos are really...

Musician Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar celebrated the release of Super Mario Odyssey by performing a pleasing classical guitar cover of the Super Mario Bros. theme song. Here is the original song. A Wonderful Cover of the ‘Super Mario Bros. 3’ Soundtrack With All the Sound Effects Created Using a GuitarMusician Plays Super Mario...

A large saber-toothed cat puppet was seen by pedestrians as it walked across Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles back in 2012. The amazing puppet was on its way to the La Brea Tar Pits Museum where it began its new journey as the star performer in the Ice Age Encounters show. The saber-toothed cat was...

The Dorothy Collective has released “Inside Information: Director’s Cut,” a wonderful cutaway art print that imagines the film themed sections of a classic Arriflex 35 IIC movie camera. The art print available to purchase from the Dorothy shop. The distinctive Arriflex 35 IIC is one of the most significant motion picture cameras of all time,...

Laughing Squid is celebrating its 22nd anniversary today. The company that I founded on November 16th, 1995 in San Francisco has come a long way. Thanks to all of you for going on this amazing ride with us! A Look Back at How the News Covered ‘Pac-Man’ in the Early 1980sParanormal Activity 2Laughing Squid 15th...

Kickstarter has announced the launch of Drip, a new platform that helps artists to receive funding on a continuous basis, while building a community of those interested in their particular endeavours. Amongst the early adopters of this continuous fundraising model are such artists as Reggie Watts, Mike Rugnetta, Feminist Frequency, Molly Soda, azikiwe mohammed and...

The BoxLock is a smart padlock designed to protect home deliveries from package thieves. Atlanta, Georgia Get BoxLock founder Brad Ruffkess and his team are currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with the production costs of the handy device. Lock in simple, 24/7 protection from package theft with BoxLock, the first internet-connected padlock specifically...

The Auralnauts created an amusing new video where they replace the iconic evil voice of Darth Vader, originally contributed by James Earl Jones, with the voice of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) after his mask malfunctions. Star Wars Parody Featuring Darth Vader Dubbed Over With Young Anakin Skywalker’s VoiceThe Philosophical Origins of Darth VaderThe Untold Story...

Kinetic artist Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines partnered with Toma Leche to make an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine smart hat that automatically cleans off a pesky milk mustache. Hats are Back at Paul’s Hat Works in San FranciscoA Color-Customizable Bracelet That Pairs With a Smartphone to Send Notifications Through Vibration, Sound, and LightDwayne “The Rock”...

Tony Hawk sat down with Wired to answer common skateboarding related questions that were asked by people on Twitter. Tony Hawk uses the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about skateboarding. Will there ever be another Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater? What skateboarding trick was the hardest to learn? Are you ever too old...

Celebrities read mean tweets about Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week to celebrate his 50th birthday. An outtakes video from the special episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live shows Larry David trying to keep from laughing, but hilariously failing, as he read some pretty mean tweets about the late night host. Celebrities Read Mean Tweets About Jimmy...