Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
‘A Day In Vienna’, A Short Film Documenting Tom Waits’ Visit to Vienna in 1979
A Day in Viennadocuments the one day Tom Waits was in Vienna during his Blue Valentine European tour.
Orangutan Likes To Help With Doing the Laundry
An orangutan at the Camp Leakey Research Facility in Central Borneo prefers doing laundry over playing in the jungle in this video by Nat Geo…
A Ted-Ed Animated Lecture on How Cancer Cells Behave Differently in the Body
In this incredibly informative 2012 Ted-Ed animated lecture, writer and scientist George Zaidan talks about how cells rapidly divide within the body and why a…
Celebrities Pose with Younger Versions of Themselves
This series of photoshop images by BuzzFeed show celebrities appearing to pose with younger versions of themselves. From these images, it appears that some here…
The Lost Letter Project Reunites 70 Year Old Love Letter with Family of the Intended Recepient
In May 2013, Abbi Jacobson and filmmaker Todd Bieber, whose work we’ve previously posted, created the Lost Letter Project, an endeavor to find the intended…
Kittens Discover the Physics of Collision While Playing with a Newton’s Cradle
Scottish Fold kittens, Panda, Pikachu and Pavel, discover the physics of collision while playing with a Newton’s Cradle. It’s probably not important that the kittens…
Teeny Tiny Baby Elephant Takes a Bath in a Pail Surrounded by His Larger Showering Pals
A teeny tiny baby elephant had a slippery good time taking a bath in a pail, while his much larger companions enjoyed a nice cool…
Michaelangelo’s Illustrated Grocery List
Even Michaelangelo, the great Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer of the High Renaissance needed to eat. This illustrated grocery list, scrawled on the…
Maru the Cat Conquers Yet A Few More Boxes
Maru the Cat continues on his quest towards world box domination. Here he conquers boxes both tall and small with little sister Hana occasionally joining…
Cosmo the Baby Monkey Swims in the Bathtub for the Very First Time
This video from 2012 shows Cosmo the baby monkey swimming in the bathtub for the very first time. We have been giving Cosmo weekly baths…