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Andy Casagrande attached a GoPro camera to a Hammerhead shark’s dorsal fin which successfully recorded some remarkable 4K footage as it swam along the ocean floor.

Conan O’Brien pledged $100 for every swear word that Jennifer Lawrence could say in 30 seconds to help raise money for charity. Ms. Lawrence’s profane efforts ended up raising $10,000 for the charity.

The How It Should Have Ended series takes a look at how Jurassic World should of ended.

DaveHax shows how to make an Oreo ice cream sandwich using chocolate chip cookies and a pint of ice cream.

Magician Steven Brundage successfully fools Penn & Teller with his Rubik’s Cube trick on episode one of the second season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us. via Penn & Teller

Bryan Cranston delivered a mike dropping response to a fan who asked what it was like working in Albuquerque, NM (where Breaking Bad was filmed). via Someecards

Arborist Brian Cox of Tree Locations has built a magnificent church that has been completely constructed with living trees in a beautiful green area of Ohaupo, New Zealand. The accompanying grounds also feature a great deal of Cox’s stunning handiwork. After travelling the world and being a keen observer of Churches, Barry Cox decided to […]

A chubby little pig named Otis exerts a great deal of effort in order to squeeze himself through the tiny doggie door and into the house after rooting through his human‘s garbage can. via reddit

Fuzzberta is an adorable guinea pig who has a great eye for fashion and a true love for dressing up. Among her favorite costumes are Harry Potter, Princess Leia and Pikachu, but the cosplaying rodent doesn’t mind simply playing a nurse or even a bandit should the occasion call for such a costume. images via […]

PBS Game/Show host Jamin Warren explores cultural representation and appropriation in video games in a recent episode. While Warren notes that a few games, like Never Alone, do a good job at representing a culture other than their creators’, he also points out that video games still have a long way to go. Cultural Appropriation […]

“Grand Zero” is a short horror comedy about a company that is not Amway. The film was written and directed by Kevin Oeser, and is set in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the city becomes overrun by Dream Star, a fictional company that is not Amway. Brian Huskey plays a husband and father trying to resist the corporation and […]

New Scientist decided to explore the popular myth that dogs can detect cancer by putting a couple of sweet dogs to the test, having them sniff out small amounts of urine from both healthy individuals and from those who have cancer. What they found is that the dogs were accurate in pinpointing the cancerous cells […]

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE offer a look at the science of the body over 24 hours in a recent video. As it turns out, the time of day can have a drastic effect on your body based on a number of external and internal factors. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

The trailer for the sixth season of The Walking Dead recently premiered at San Diego Comic-Con. The trailer gives a look at the upcoming season, and focuses primarily on the character of Rick Grimes as he appears to be trying to settle into a new place, and dealing with the possible ramifications of him being there. The sixth […]

Per our post in 2012, artist and former film director Phillip Haas has created a traveling set of fiberglass sculptures that represent each season of the year. The pieces are heavily inspired by the “The Four Seasons“, the famous food portraits by the classical Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The sculptures first premiered in London and […]

Chicago-based self-taught makeup artist and body painter Alexys Fleming has released two impressive makeup tutorial videos on how to transform yourself into the DC Comics villains Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. More amazing tutorials are available to view on her YouTube channel. images via Madeulook Lex via Geeks Are Sexy

Blue Fields is a series of beautiful aerial photographs depicting Australian salt fields taken by photographer Simon Butterworth using a DJI Phantom 2 drone. From above, the photographs resemble paintings thanks to the swirling blue colors of the salt fields. photos via Simon Butterworth via Photojojo

Design group Kurzgesagt explains colony collapse disorder and the threat dying bees pose to humanity in a recent video. There are multiple causes as to why so many bees are dying, and they range from pesticides to human greed.

British designer Duncan Shotton has created a collection of cute and playful Sticky Page Markers that you can use to mark pages in a book and create miniature scenes and landscapes. The marked pages can come together to look like a group of aliens lurking on a desolate planet in space, Godzilla trampling throughout Tokyo, […]

“The Loyal Royals” is a short video in which Vanity Fair offers a quick history of how Welsh Corgis came to be the favored breed of Queen Elizabeth II with a simple reenactment of the Queen interacting with her beloved dogs. In living memory, no world leader has been as widely identified with a particular […]

In his new film Roger Waters The Wall, the Pink Floyd frontman shares how his war-torn childhood profoundly affected the music he we went on to make, particularly the immensely popular album The Wall. Roger Waters, co-founder and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a […]

In a recent video from their 100 Wonders series, Atlas Obscura provides an explanation for the mysterious deaths of hundreds of human skeletons found in Roopkund, a glacial lake in India nicknamed “Skeleton Lake” because of all the skeletons. The skeletons were first found in 1942, and for decades the cause of death was a mystery. […]

Low Budget Prop Shop is a new web series, created for Break Media‘s AWE me channel, by host and producer Dustin McLean of CineFix‘s Homemade Movies series. In episode one, McLean shows how to build a Terminator T-800 endoskeleton arm for $30 using wood, plastic, random household items, and silver spray paint.

“I’m your landlady, not a plot device” In the newest trailer for the forthcoming Sherlock special, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), bedecked in a traditional two-sided cap and cape, and a mustachioed Doctor Watson (Martin Freeman) return home to 221B Baker Street where an inconvenienced Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs) offers a lukewarm welcome upon their arrival. […]

The folks at Living Big In A Tiny House recently took a look at a truck that folds out into a castle complete with bathroom and shower turrets. The truck, created and occupied by a New Zealand family, is apparently road legal when compact. The castle-truck is completely off-the grid. It is solar powered, heats […]

Internet puppet Johnny T sings a modern version of the classic song “New York, New York” in a recent episode of Glove and Boots. A lot has changed from the time when Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra made the song popular in the 1970s. The original song for comparison:

During San Diego Comic-Con 2015 in San Diego, California, television personality Chris Hardwick hosted a Doctor Who panel that consisted of Peter Capaldi (“The Doctor“), Jenna Coleman (“Clara Oswald“), Michelle Gomez (“Missy“) and showrunner Steven Moffat, each of whom spoke about the very distinct personalities of the characters. Following his record-breaking first season as the […]

The Junojumper by Juno Power is a portable device that can jump start a car or charge a smartphone. The device contains a 6,000mAh battery, USB port, a 12-volt output with the included jumper cable, and an onboard flashlight. For a limited time, the Junojumper is available in our Laughing Squid Store at a 25% discount […]

Mental Floss host Elliott Morgan debunks some of the common misconceptions about video games.

image via WLOX In an effort to surprise returning students in August, several teachers at Biloxi Junior High School took advantage of the summer vacation to transform old school lockers into the spines of classic and contemporary books, thus creating what they call an “Avenue of Literature“. Some of the teachers spoke with WLOX about […]

TRACKSOUNDS is a series of short songs by Kenner inspired by the New York City subway. The songs sample recordings of MTA announcements and layer in musical tracks to go with them. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

“A YEAR OF PING PONG” is a short film by Supermarché that follows The New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz as he plays ping pong every day for a year. Will Shortz tests his own limits of committment, and his brains ability to be fully activated. “Playing ping pong everyday is sort of […]

CLS Videos has created wonderful split-screen tribute video featuring some of the most beautiful footage of Middle-earth captured in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies. Music featured in the video includes “Under Giant Trees” by Agnes Obel, “Byegone” by Volcano Choir, and “Only If for a Night” by Florence […]

CanopyStair is a spiral staircase that straps to the trunk of a tree. Each step is modular and can be strapped to the tree without the use of tools. The CanopyStair was designed by Robert McIntyre and Thor ter Kulve as a way to easily climb a tree, and the duo put care into the design so that […]

Amazon will celebrate its upcoming 20th birthday with big discounts on “Prime Day” July 15, 2015. Similar to a traditional Black Friday sale, the company will offer a number of temporary deals throughout the day available only to Amazon Prime members. Non-members can sign up for a 30-day free trial to take advantage of the […]

photo by Tony Cagala for The Coast News Minnesota-based artist and photographer Kevin Doyle recently honored his late wife Eileen Doyle, who passed away due to pancreatic cancer in November 2012, by dressing up as a Stormtrooper and walking 645 miles to the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con. Doyle and his wife both enjoyed all things […]

Los Angeles-based musician and composer Andy Rehfeldt has created a new video where John Travolta (Danny Zuko) and Olivia Newton-John (Sandy Olsson) sing a death metal version of the Grease song “You’re The One That I Want“. Travolta’s part was sung by Thomas Hinds and Newton-John’s was sung by Dori Kreisz in the hardcore remix […]

San Francisco Chronicle produced a short video about The 52nd Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest that took place on July 9, 2015 in San Francisco’s Union Square. This year’s contest winner was Byron Cobb, a 25-year veteran cable car driver.

“I’m the Doctor, and I save people!” A defiant Doctor Who, played by Peter Capaldi, faces down old and new enemies, dons a pair of shades, plays an electric guitar and even tangles with Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones in the first official trailer for the Ninth series (35th season) of the show, which […]

CollegeHumor provides an excellent example of an extremely inappropriate time to correct a person’s grammar.

In this three-minute time-lapse video by Mode Glam, a handsome man named Matty Watts models 100 years of men’s fashion, starting with the twirly moustache and double-breasted plaid blazer of 1915 and culminating with the scruffy beard and denim shirt of 2015. The model also added in a few humorously exaggerated dance moves with each […]

Paramus, New Jersey is a delightful short film by Turnaround Films about a voyeuristic view of a couple eating as seen through the window of a White Castle in Paramus, New Jersey. As the scene unfolds, our faithful narrator attempts to figure out what is going on between the woman and man. via Vimeo Staff […]

“The United States of Beer“, a short animated film by talented illustrator Drew Christie, is a humorous and amusing trip through American history with the fermented brew at the center of the action. My latest animation explores what makes American great: beer. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agree with me. Rutherford B. Hayes does not. […]

Justin Ponsor created a fantastic illustration of The Muppets as characters in Mad Max: Fury Road. I love the Muppets so I tend to picture them as all kinds of pop culture phenoms. In this case, once I pictured Dr. Teeth as Immortan Joe, I had to make it happen. Painted in Photoshop CS4 in […]

Claire Wineland, a wonderfully outspoken and insightful teenager who has been dealing with cystic fibrosis for most of her life, shares her experience of being put into a medically induced coma five years ago and describes how her mind interpreted the world going on outside. I’ve never been to Alaska. I’ve never, like, shown any […]

The upcoming video game LEGO Dimensions has gotten bigger on the inside with the addition of Doctor Who characters. Peter Capaldi will portray the Twelfth Doctor, and characters like Daleks will play a role in smaller playsets. The game, which features a bunch of brands like Back to the Future interacting together in a fashion […]

VinePair, a reliable online resource for information about beer, alcohol and spirits, has put together colorful photographic visualizations of the flavors and notes that can be found in such spirits as bourbon, gin, scotch, tequila and vodka. Like beer, spirits have a wide range of tastes and aromas. Lots of things contribute to the flavor […]

The Hammel VB 950 “Red Giant” shredder absolutely destroys a whole bunch of engine blocks in a 2012 video. We previously posted a video of the “Red Giant” eating a car. via Gizmodo Sploid

In “Fingers Bloody Fingers“, the first chapter of the VH1 animated series The Complete History of Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath founding member and guitarist Tommy Iommi shares how he lost his fingertips and how that loss forced him to create his now-legendary sound. Animator Paul Blow shared how the story came to be told. The […]

A tiny black and white kitten named Neo intently watches her mom clean herself and clumsily tries to copy her motions. Eventually, however, Neo gives up and just lets mom lick her belly for her. image via Ari Kesonen via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks