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.
Daveed Diggs Visits ‘People in the Neighborhood’ in the ‘Sesame Street’ DoorDash Super Bowl 2021 Ad
Rapper and Hamilton actor Daveed Diggs, who is a regular visitor to Sesame Street, returned to visit his muppet crew with a new take on…
Orchestral Arrangement of Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man’
Musician Micky Tejada and Epic Symphonic Rock (previously) performed a wonderfully sonorous arrangement of the iconic Black Sabbath song “Iron Man”. At the end of…
A Disconcertingly Realistic Disembodied Motorized Hand That Taps Its Fingers With a Flick of a Switch
Artist Nik Ramage, who is a self-described “sculptor of useless machines and absurd devices”, has cast in iron, a disconcertingly realistic disembodied mechanized, and motorized…
An Automated LEGO Present Wrapping Factory
The Brick Wall (previously) previously built an incredibly convenient LEGO wrapping paper machine that accurately measures exactly how much paper to cut by scanning the…
Documenting the Evolutionary Journey That Western Toad Tadpoles Must Take to Become Fully Grown
British Columbian nature and wildlife photographer Maxwell Hohn spent a remarkable four years documenting the dangerous, underwater journey that Western toad tadpoles have to make…
Cleverly Irreverent Fake Toys by Obvious Plant
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Obvious Plant (@obviousplant) Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant (previously) has created a highly realistic fake…
How Animals Use Farts As Odiferous Deadly Weapons
In an odiferous Ted-Ed lesson that was written by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti and directed by Avi Ofer, narrator Alexandra Panzer explains how the…
An Illustrated Chart Showing Which Household Appliances Coordinate With Specific Actions
Randall Munroe of xkcd created a colorfully illustrated chart that shows which appliances coordinate with which specific actions. The graphic also humorously shows what the…
Compassionate Man Saves a Deer Stranded in the Middle of a Frozen Pond by Sliding Her Across the Ice
When outdoorsman Gil Lancour of Cranmoor, Wisconsin came across a frightened doe who had gotten herself stranded in the middle of a frozen pond, he…
Penguins of the Saint Louis Zoo Take an Enriching Field Trip to Visit the Resident Polar Bears on a Snowy Day
The resident penguins of different varieties at the Saint Louis Zoo took a short but enriching field trip across the snowy path in order to…