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In his latest video, Jake Roper of VSauce3 discusses the concept of mutations, explains what happens when cells mutate and praises the real life superheroes who allow doctors to learn from their own genetic mutations in order to help other people conquer their own illnesses. You have about 60 mutations when you’re born. But some […]

In April 2015, a tiny kitten named Rosie arrived at the loving home of Lilo the Husky who, with her canine brothers, helped Rosie become the picture of perfect health. Now a year older, it’s Rosie’s turn to take what she learned from Lilo and pay it forward to a litter of kittens who need […]

Life Noggin looks at the available resources and changing climate conditions to estimate the total number of people the Earth can hold. The video also looks at the potential decline in quality of life for humans if the Earth does reach its limit. There are over seven billion people currently living on Earth, but with […]

Redneck Boot Sandals is a unique service that reconstructs old cowboy boots into a curious open-toed hybrid of two radically different shoe styles that don’t usually go together. The idea was born out of a beachside experience. One sunny afternoon, Scotty Franklin, owner and CEO, was lounging on white sand beaches of Gulf Shores Alabama […]

A clip from the Science Channel series Machines: How They Work demonstrates how modern vending machines detect coin values, ignore fakes, and prevent hanging snacks. The show uses detailed computer animations to give viewers a look inside the inner workings of machines. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with a sponsored blog […]

In a new ad to tout the 4K video capability of the iPhone 6s, a little girl’s video of her mom slicing red onions goes viral, is praised for its imagery and even wins an Oscar that’s awarded by the great Neil Patrick Harris. 4K video on iPhone 6s makes whatever you shoot look amazing. […]

The BBC will celebrate the life and work of naturalist Sir David Attenborough as he turns 90 on May 8, 2016 with programming that will air from May 7 to May 16, 2016. Attenborough began working for the BBC in 1952 and has worked on many different programs in his more than 60 years in broadcasting. ? […]

???? A photo posted by gary card (@garycard) on Apr 22, 2016 at 2:47am PDT With the news of Prince’s untimely death, artist Gary Card unearthed a really wonderful purple inked illustration that he created several years ago for The Beat. The chart amusingly captured every distinctive hairstyle (both hair and head) that the musician […]

AsapSCIENCE took a closer look at the difference between brand name versus generic food and drugs and in doing so, explained why the difference between the two is minimal or non-existent and conducted a taste test of their own. Next time you’re at the grocery store trying compare the ingredient list and nutritional information of […]

The Walking Erasers by SUCK UK are a collection of rubber wind-up monster erasers that trample around and destroy your mistakes. They are available to purchase from SUCK UK and The Fowndry. Clockwork creatures, wind them up and watch them go… causing a trail of destruction across your desktop. These wind-up monsters have added function […]

Upon hearing the news of the tragic death of Prince, sand artist Joe Mangrum took to his favorite medium and in the middle of Washington Square Park in New York City, recreated the incredible Theo Wargo photo of the musician playing “Purple Rain” during the rainy Super Bowl XLI Half-Time Show in 2007. The original […]

20th Century Fox released the final trailer and a collection of character posters for X-Men: Apocalypse, the upcoming ninth superhero movie in the ongoing X-Men film series and sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past. The trailer follows the young group of X-Men as they attempt to protect the world from Apocalypse and his four […]

Authors Robert V. Conte and Tim Lapetino teamed up with Dynamite Entertainment to create the Art of Atari, a hardcover book featuring over 40 years of iconic Atari video game packaging design. It is available to pre-order from Amazon with a ship date of October 25th, 2016. Atari is one of the most recognized names […]

Theme Park Monsters has created an awesome mashup of footage from the Suicide Squad trailers the Pixies‘ song “Where Is My Mind?“. Suicide Squad is set to hit theaters on August 5, 2016. via GeekTyrant → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored blog posts.

Back in February, Daniel McFarlane captured amazing footage of his friend Ben flipping a pancake into the air, doing a quick somersault, and then catching the airborne pancake in a skillet before it hit the floor. via reddit → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored blog posts.

The Hydraulic Press Channel recently crushed a 1506-page Finnish-English and English-Finnish dictionary under immense pressure. The channel’s proprietor Lauri Vuohensilta had to increase the pressure of the press and use a small steel cylinder to properly crush the book, but the dictionary didn’t go down without a fight. → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored […]

Honest spokesman Roger returned for another installment of the Cracked series of Honest Ads to sell viewers Horton’s Reality Escaping Electric Brick. The commercial parody reveals the truth about video games, and how the only true innovation in game design in recent years is the ability to make more money. → Advertise your product or service on Laughing […]

Café Society is the new film by Woody Allen. The story is set in the golden age of Hollywood and stars Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Blake Lively. Eisenberg plays Bobby, a young man enamored by Stewart’s character Vonnie as he tries to decide whether to live in New York or Los Angeles. The […]

A photo posted by Beetle House (@beetlehousenyc) on Apr 24, 2016 at 6:56pm PDT The folks behind the Will Ferrell-themed bar Stay Classy, are opening up Beetle House, a quirky East Village restaurant and bar that’s dedicated to all things Tim Burton. The food menu features such delicacies as “Beetle Bread”, “Edward Burger Hands” and […]

Star Wars Ship Monsters is an art print by Utah artist and teacher Jake Parker featuring illustrations of popular Star Wars spacecraft and vehicles that reimagined as monsters. Signed prints are available to purchase from Jake’s online shop. A photo posted by Jake Parker (@jakeparker) on Apr 27, 2015 at 5:45am PDT A photo posted […]

The Fallen Furniture workshop in Bath, England has created the 737 Cowling Chair, a beautiful piece of furniture that was built from the recycled engine cowling of a Boeing 737 aircraft. Order inquiries can be submitted on the Fallen Furniture website. This colossal, luxurious chair, spins weightlessly, on its highly polished spun aluminium base. Stood […]

Millennium Falcon UK technical illustrator Hans Jenssen has created a series of incredibly detailed drawings featuring well-known Star Wars vehicles and locations. Hans’ entire collection of Star Wars illustrations are available to view on his portfolio website. Death Star AT-AT Skywalker Homestead, Tatooine Yoda’s Kashyyk Pod Emperor’s Throne Room images via Hans Jenssen via Fubiz […]

By way of a new trailer for the next series of Doctor Who in 2017, viewers were introduced to the Doctor’s new companion Bill, a confident young woman who found herself in the midst of an incoming Dalek attack. Rather than becoming rightfully frightened, Bill became quite inquisitive and asked many of the questions about […]

In the latest episode of Now You See It, host Jack Nugent examines common film techniques that directors use to end their movies. Fans of Jack can help support his future work on Patreon. → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored blog posts.

Shaun Rodriguez recently captured footage of skateboarder Christopher Chann skillfully sliding down a massive, wet hill using his only his shoes. When it’s rainy out, Christopher thinks outside the box. A video posted by Christopher Chann (@christopherchann) on Apr 23, 2016 at 11:11am PDT → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored […]

In a beautiful tribute to the untimely death of Prince that was captured by concertgoer Stan Goldstein, a melancholy Bruce Springsteen walked onto a hushed stage flooded in violet light and opened his sold-out show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn with a truly poignant version of “Purple Rain“. Another fan, dvddubbingguy posted a video […]

Prince, if you’re here, I dare you to come up on stage Actor, screenwriter and former Saturday Night Live (SNL) cast member Tim Kazurinsky uploaded absolutely incredible footage of the late, great Prince as he performed an amazing live version of “Let’s Go Crazy” after being called up to the already star-studded stage by Jimmy […]

A wonderful new couch gag for The Simpsons pays tribute to classic Disney films throughout the years. The gag was created by by Eric Goldberg, a supervising animator, writer and director for Walt Disney Animation Studios. → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored blog posts.

In memory of the tragic death of Prince on April 21, 2016, Vox put together a fascinating compilation that shows how extensive the multi-talented musician’s influence was in assisting the careers of other artists, including songs that he penned under a pseudonym. Another surprise is “Manic Monday” by The Bangles (1985). …You can’t deny these […]

Burger Fiction takes a look at the evolution of Iron Man in television and film. → Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with sponsored blog posts.

In advance of the Season 6 premiere of Game of Thrones on April 24, 2016, Moleskine Products partnered with HBO to create a detailed paper animation that brilliantly recreates the show’s iconic opening credits. A new line of signature notebooks has also been created in celebration of the new season. Pages, whether blank or ruled, […]

Vlogger Mat from Techmoan posted amazingly crisp, high definition New York City footage that was taken in 1993 that was captured from a D-Theater HD DVHS demo tape, incredibly cutting edge technology of the time. Mat explained more about this short-lived format in a follow up video. via reddit → Advertise your product or service […]

The great Bob Odenkirk, most recently of Better Call Saul, recently sat down with Off Camera host Sam Jones to talk about how he puts a comedy sketch together, how he plays the role of Jimmy McGill versus how he previously played Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, being the main character in a series and […]

In his first foray into music analysis, the Nerdwriter delves deep into the beautifully complex classic Steely Dan song “Deacon Blues” in order to show the incredibly rich layers that make up its entirety. …”Deacon Blues”, I think contains a hidden earnestness. In the lead into the first chorus the narrator says he’s ready to […]

Prince appeared as the guest on the premiere episode of the second season of Muppets Tonight on September 13, 1997. During the episode the late performer appeared in various sketches, told jokes with Gonzo, performed with the Muppet Hoo-Haw Ha Ha Ha Hayseed Band, and debuted the song “Starfish and Coffee” inspired by the menu […]

BlabberLab is a new rebus app by artists George Pfau and Tom Comitta that combines letters with grotesque illustrations to create word art. The images are a play on words that contain the names of body parts like “hair” in the word “chair,” “lips” in the word “flips,” etc. The app includes more than 400 illustrated examples […]

In the latest episode of AsapTHOUGHT, host Gregory Brown explains the concept of lalochezia, the emotional and physical relief that’s felt by swearing in stressful situations. This was proved in a controlled study during which test subjects submerged their hands in ice cold water; those who were allowed to swear tolerated the cold twice as […]

In the latest of their “Literature” series, the School of Life offers insight into writer Franz Kafka, connecting his tormented childhood with a psychologically and physically abusive father with the disturbing themes, fear of judgement and sense of isolation that made his stories so compelling. Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 the eldest […]

The TED-Ed lesson “Why is being scared so fun?” by sociologist Margee Kerr explores the mental and physical reactions in the body responsible for why some people enjoy being scared. At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a thrill-ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of […]

“Pastel Paper” is the most recent video by Los Angeles card illusionist Zach Mueller of Fontaine Cards where he demonstrates his cardistry skills by manipulating a deck of playing cards in unbelievable ways. We have previously written about Zach and his amazing card tricks. music by whereisalex – “i wish you loved me” submitted via […]

Filmmakers Tim Sessler of of Brooklyn Aerials and Brandon Bray of Decade collaborated to create “Balance“, a haunting short film that constrasts tilting drone footage of the New York City skyline with an old cemetery sitting across the water, creating a skyline of its own. We humans we create, we work, we stay busy from […]

Track N Go is a tread and ski system that can be attached to a vehicle’s wheels in a matter of minutes to allow it to travel through deep snow. The wheels turn the treads meaning the system requires no additional power to operate, and the Track N Go YouTube channel features videos of the system […]

Back in 2014 Rodger Cleye created a speeder bike frame to attach to his segway. He then took his fully functioning speeder bike for a ride around town wearing a full set of scout trooper armor. via Geekologie Help Laughing Squid Grow As an Independent Blog Through a Monthly Pledge of Support

Circuit Classics is a project by Star Simpson to create printed circuit board kits based on classic projects from Forrest Mims‘ iconic book Getting Started in Electronics. Each kit will come with a printed circuit board, the required components, exact copies of Mims’ handwritten text recreated on the boards themselves, and handsome wood blocks to […]

Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie recently devoured 12 cans of “straight up corn,” which is approximately 11.5 pounds of corn, in under 13 minutes for his latest eating challenge. 12 Cans of Corn! The gastrointestinal equivalent of exfoliating beads. A photo posted by Matt Stonie (@matt_stonie) on Apr 19, 2016 at 2:51pm PDT A photo […]

In honor of the sixth season premiering this Sunday, Screen Junkies host Hal Rudnick shared his Idiot’s Guide to the fifth season of HBO‘s Game of Thrones. It’s a great way to get caught up for the epic war. Help Laughing Squid Grow As an Independent Blog Through a Monthly Pledge of Support

An absolutely adorable rescued infant slow loris named Pasar climbed a tree for the very first time in his life, heartbreakingly calling out to his mother for reassurance. Pasar had been trapped and separated from his mother at only 6-weeks old, to be sold as a pet in a Jakarta animal market. International Animal Rescue […]

Photographer Henry Hargreaves has created Deep Fried Gadgets, a wonderful series where he deep fries popular pieces of electronics and then takes tasty photos of them. His complete collection of crispy gadgets are available to view on his website. I like to play with food and the juxtaposition of different worlds. I found a video […]

“Player Two” is a touching short film by John Wikstrom about a son chasing his father’s ghost in the racing video game Rally Sport Challenge. The film was inspired by a YouTube comment on the PBS Game/Show episode “Can Video Games Be A Spiritual Experience?” In the comment, user 00WARTHERAPY00 tells the story of playing […]

Richard Lyons, a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area experimental band Negativland who played a number of evocative, thought-provoking pranking characters throughout his career, passed away peacefully on April 19, 2016, his birthday, due to complications from nodular melanoma. He had just turned 57. Known for his role in finding the Estus W. […]