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ThinkGeek is featuring a 10-piece handmade Planetary Lollipop set that includes delicious images of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The individually wrapped hard candy lollipops each come with their own unique flavor. If you’ve been around ThinkGeek for a while, you already know this, but we once sold […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live! shared the action-packed world premiere trailer for Assassin’s Creed, an upcoming live action film directed by Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth) based on Ubisoft‘s popular video game franchise. The new movie, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, is currently set to dive into theaters on December 21st, 2016. Through a revolutionary technology that […]

Engineer fastythefastcat has built a really remarkable, if not a bit noisy, automatic guitar strumming robot that he built using LEGO Mindstorms technology. He also graciously shared how he made the robot in a separate video. …thought I’d share this video for the Lego fans that want a bit of a closer look and an […]

When a tiny chihuahua puppy who lost his mother to a car accident was brought to the Michigan Humane Society, they knew that he would need a lot of loving care. After a bit of thought, the decision was made to pair him with a very gentle cat named Gwen, who was nursing her newborn […]

Loog Guitars and Third Man Records have partnered together to create the Little Third Man Guitar, a real three string electric guitar that arrives as a disassembled kit in order to give kids the experience of building their own instrument for themselves. …around here we believe that when you build your own guitar you develop […]

The wonderful folks at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida shared an amazing slow-motion video of their resident rescued big cats each enjoying a yummy treat. Videographer Jeromy Hogue shot the native slo-mo footage with his Phantom camera. Big Cat in Slow Motion…Watch as tigers, a lion, and a black leopard take treats in slow […]

While on a trip to Antartica, opera singer Nick Allen belted out an impromptu aria that put the resident penguins on high alert and sent them scurrying away as fast as they could go. Since that day, however, penguins keep showing up in the tenor’s dreams. I'm sure I'm going to start dreaming about penguins…maybe […]

20-year-old Hugo Cornellier, who we have written about in the past, is back with a stabilized version of his time-lapse video made up of over 8.5 years worth of daily selfies (2,500+ photos) that Cornellier took of himself since he was 12 years old. In his newly released Q & A video and comments on […]

Great Big Story tells the remarkable tale of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemist who was concerned about what was being added to food to keep it fresh during the early 20th century. In order to document the health effects of such toxic preservatives, Wiley recruited a group of volunteers who were willing to eat […]

Today I Found Out looks back at a time when doctors literally blew smoke up the asses of patients to revive them or treat a wide variety of other conditions. The practice later gave us the phrase “Blowing smoke up your ass” to mean insincere flattery. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the planet Mercury’s May 9, 2016 transit between the Earth and Sun. The transit occurred between approximately 7:12 a.m. and 2:42 p.m. EDT, and the video shows the event across a number of different wavelengths. Mercury passes between the Earth and Sun like this about 13 times per century. Host […]

“The Man Who Put the Pee in Phosphorous” is a video by Great Big Story about 17th century German alchemist Hennig Brand who discovered phosphorous while boiling gallons of urine to attempt to create the philosopher’s stone. In the 1660’s, German alchemist Hennig Brand thought he knew the secret to making solid gold: pee. So […]

In a recent sound profile, SoundWorks Collection interviewed the Naughty Dog audio team and found out about their fascinating work on the newly released video game, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Audio lead Phillip Kovats, senior sound designer Robert Krekel, senior programmer Jonathan Lanier, and senior sound designer Jeremy Rogers all pitch in on explaining […]

The team at Disney Research‘s lab in Zürich has created an interactive software that simplifies the process of turning computer animated characters into physical mechanical toys that anyone can 3D print and build. Given an articulated character as input, the user iteratively creates an animation by sketching motion curves indicating how different parts of the […]

A man armed with a spear and dressed as an ancient warrior took down a flying drone that was filming a battle reenactment at a history festival in central Russia. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

“A Visual History of Ancient Hairdos (and Don’ts)” by The Atlantic is a amusing animated timeline that takes a look at the wonderfully eccentric, elaborately designed, and perhaps even purposeful hairstyles, for both men and women, from the past 50 centuries throughout the world. The documented history of hairstyles begins prior to 3200 BC, when […]

In the Royal Institution video “What Is Weightlessness?” host Andrew Marmery explains what causes the sensation of weight on Earth and what really causes the feeling of weightlessness while travelling in space. On one hand, we learn at school that weight is the force on an object due to gravity; on the other, there’s a more […]

Sladmore Contemporary has created a wonderful documentary about the extraordinary animal and insect sculptures that French artist Edouard Martine builds out of salvaged parts and junk. Take one workshop full of junk and a Frenchman with an eye for detail (not to mention an obsession with bugs) and you will find the most eclectic mix […]

In the 21th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in Kenya as modeled by Keesee Andrea, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the researched trends of each decade. photos by WatchCut Host your WordPress blog with Laughing […]

The Makey Makey Invention Kit: Collector’s Edition is a simple tool that turns anything into a computer keyboard. Inventors simply connect objects to the Makey Makey board with an alligator clip to the desired mouse or keyboard input to create just about anything from a banana keyboard to a Play-Doh video game controller without any programming […]

Los Angeles filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a supercut video of the numerous water scenes featured in Tim Burton‘s fantasy drama film, Big Fish. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

A sweet Siamese cat named Scooter, who lives in Mansfield, Texas with his human Gail, has broken the Guinness World Record Record for “Oldest living cat”. At 30-years old, Scooter is an amazing four years older than 26-year old Corduroy, the previous record holder. Born March 26, 1986, Scooter lives with his owner Gail Floyd, […]

Blind film critic Tommy Edison answers the question he says he gets asked more than any other, “How do blind people know when to stop wiping?“ Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Wendover Productions gives a dollar for dollar breakdown of why flying is so expensive. The video uses a hypothetical flight from New York City to Washington, D.C. and estimates the per-person cost of every expense that goes into a flight including fuel, crew payment, and airport fees. Flying is expensive, really expensive, but only kinda, […]

In the new trailer for the fourth season of the breakout Netflix series Orange is the New Black, tensions run high as factions begin to form, leading towards an impending battle at Litchfield prison. Who will fight, and who will fall? The fourth season of Orange is the New Black premieres on June 17, 2016. […]

Tickled is a new documentary by David Farrier (Short Poppies, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws) about his strange journey to find the person behind a series of online “competitive endurance tickling” videos. What begins as a simple story takes a series of dark twists as Farrier gets closer to the truth. The film will be released in theaters […]

Software engineer and artist Mat Bergman has created a fantastic supercut video of every stop motion animated creature, made by the legendary Ray Harryhausen, in feature films. The great Ray Harryhausen creating magic as only he could.https://t.co/O3tYdis1fc pic.twitter.com/Oy2r6gDmsR — One. Perfect. Shot. (@OnePerfectShot) April 3, 2016 via Live for Films, Aaron Muszalski Host your WordPress […]

“The Eyes of TAXI DRIVER” is a video essay, created by Jacob T. Swinney for Fandor Keyframe, that explores the cinematographic techniques used by director Martin Scorsese in his 1976 film Taxi Driver. What makes Taxi Driver so great? It’s been forty years since its breathtaking vision of urban violence and decay first caused a […]

Universal Orlando Resort has released new details on the relaunch of The Incredible Hulk Coaster at Islands of Adventure. The pumped up ride, which re-opens in late summer 2016, will feature all new enhancements to its storyline, ride vehicles, entrance, and overall experience.” Massive New Marquee: From the moment you walk up to the beloved […]

In honor of Captain America: Civil War hitting theaters last week, guitarist Eric Calderone (a.k.a. “331Erock“) performed a heavy metal version of the Captain America movie theme song. Spider-Man even makes a special appearance during Eric‘s heavy metal cover to shred on the guitar. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Great Big Story took a short but detailed visual trip into the beautifully decorated subterranean Shell Grotto that exists below the seaside town of Margate, Kent, U.K. Its origin and purpose has been a complete mystery since it was discovered in 1835. Less than six feet beneath a residential neighborhood in the English seaside town […]

In an effort to discourage ownership of wild animals, a brave volunteer at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida safely demonstrated the danger of turning one’s back on a big cat. His daring experiment included a lion, a tiger and leopard, all of whom snuck up behind him quietly in attack mode, as dictated by […]

Great Big Story explains how the “traditional” Chinese food delivery container wasn’t an Asian idea, but instead was actually invented in Chicago and then further refined decades later in Los Angeles. Although the box is folded style was inspired by Japanese origami, the packaging is a uniquely Western invention. In 1894, Chicago-based inventor Frederick Weeks […]

PBS Space Time explains why the Earth is a round sphere while the Milky Way galaxy is a flat disc. Those two shapes are the most common for large bodies in the Universe, and the reason the shapes are so often repeated comes down to the principles of symmetry and equilibrium. Our universe is not […]

On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces stormed the beaches at Normandy to liberate Europe from Nazi control in World War II. The event is commonly referred to as “D-Day” and an episode of Today I Found Out episode gives several different possibilities for what the “D” stands for, including the most probable one. You might […]

Maymo the Lemon Beagle, a sweet dog who enjoys putting on shows and chasing after all things mechanical, managed to once again stay still long enough for his human to create a silly compilation of him balancing over 50 different forms of plant life on his adorable little head, just like he did with vegetables. […]

In a recent video tutorial, the clever Dave Hax demonstrates how to make snack or chip bags resealable with the plastic lid from a pack of wipes. Life hacks how to reseal your bag of Doritos, chips, crisps, popcorn pretzels or other snack. Use the lid from a pack of wipes or tissues to reseal […]

Today I Found Out explains how and why oysters make pearls. The video looks at how pearls are formed naturally as well as the detailed process oyster farmers use to cultivate pearls. Oysters make pearls as a defensive response to foreign objects. The process begins when some foreign body, such as sand, a parasite or […]

In honor of Star Wars Day, guitarist Eric Calderone aka 331Erock performed a heavy metal version of the bouncy song that the band was playing during the cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Well, haha. This one has been one the list ever since the original Star Wars metal vid all […]

Eclectic Method has created a remix of “Carpool Karaoke”, the hugely popular segment on The Late Late Show where host James Corden drives famous singers around Los Angeles and sings songs with them. James Corden’s runaway viral musical singalong gets mashed up into little bits. The Late Late Show’s “Carpool Karaoke” has become a global […]

Woodworker and filmmaker Frank Howarth rather humorously and skillfully crafted an extremely detailed Death Star from bamboo in celebration of Star Wars Day “May the Fourth” 2016. I have wood turned a Death Star out of bamboo plywood. The build consists of making two segmented halves that seam together at the trench. Each half is […]

In the latest of their incredibly insightful videos, the School of Life explains, through animation by Zedem Productions, exactly what makes someone a good listener and the need to train everyone to become better listeners. Good listeners moralize. The good listener is acutely aware of how insane we all are they know their own minds […]

ThinkGeek has released a fantastic series of ceramic Star Wars Geeki Tiki Mugs. The Mos Eisley Kon-Tiki Bar is the only wretched hive of scum and villainy where you can count on every drink to come with a little umbrella. You’re welcome to come in any time of day, but you’d better leave your blaster […]

A giant jawbreaker candy was melted down with a blowtorch into a gooey liquid puddle in a recent video by the Let’s Melt This channel. Jawbreaker candy is well-known for keeping kids busy for hours thanks to its durability. Well today this jawbreaker met its ultimate challenge – a blow torch with a max temperature […]

Italian creative company Nerdo has created “BEER“, a clever and completely appropriate animated interpretation of the gritty poem of the same name as recited its author, underground writer Charles Bukowski, who was once labeled as the “laureate of American lowlife” by Pico Iyer of Time Magazine. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Reactions shows how to use chemistry to help keep flowers alive longer. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Pop-Tarts has announced two new soda themed flavors, A&W Root Beer and Orange Crush. Available at retailers nationwide in May 2016, new Pop-Tarts Frosted A&W Root Beer are bubbling with root beer-flavored filling, wrapped inside a golden crust, and are topped with sweet white frosting and brown, red and orange crunchlets. Pop-Tarts Frosted Crush Orange […]

A photo posted by Nima (@nimasensor) on Feb 26, 2016 at 10:23am PST NIMA by San Francisco company 65Sensor Labs is a sleek, portable and convenient smartphone-enabled sensor that sniffs out gluten in approximately two minutes and responds with a smile display if the food is gluten-free and safe to eat. This is especially important […]

On a recent episode of SciShow, host Michael Aranda takes a look at the mystery of Devil’s Kettle Falls in Minnesota, where the water seems to disappear into the ground after going over the falls. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Michael Furrh created a golf club measuring 22 feet, 6.75 inches long, setting a RecordSetter world record for the world’s longest functional golf club. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.