Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Vsauce Host Michael Stevens and Adam Savage Build a Near Perfect Brachistochrone Track
Vsauce host Michael Stevens and his Brain Candy Live partner Adam Savage built a near perfect brachistochrone track to demonstrate that a straight line is…
I’m Not a Cat, I’m An Alternative Dog
A photo posted by Shorty and Kodi (@shortyandkodi) on Jan 23, 2017 at 6:01am PST I’m Not a Cat, I’m An Alternative Dog by Shorty…
How Warm and Cold Personalities Differ In Their Vision of Human Nature
In the animated video “How To Be Warm“, the highly insightful School of Life explains that the difference between warm and cool personalities boils down…
Ear Climbers, Sterling Silver Ear Jewelry That Gives the Illusion of Multiple Piercings Without the Pain
British jeweler Nahrena Kohli has created a line of wonderfully modern sterling silver “Ear Climbers” that truly give the illusion that the person wearing them…
A Truck Driver Loses Their Marbles, Spilling 38,000lbs Worth on Interstate After an Accident
#Breaking A truck driver has lost his marbles… Literally, 38,000 pounds of them on I-465 SB at the 41mm No ????, ???? for ???????? pic.twitter.com/XWHa6Wk8VE…
The Rosetta Wearable Disk, A Smart Pendant That Holds an Archive of Many of the World’s Languages
The Long Now Foundation, the brilliant minds behind the Rosetta Project, a language archive inspired by the Rosetta Stone, has created the Rosetta Wearable Disk.…
Billy Eichner and Stephen Colbert Ask People About Living in a New York City Bubble
Billy Eichner and Stephen Colbert took to the streets of Manhattan to ask people about living in a “New York bubble” in a clip from…
Four-Year-Old Claire Ryann Sings a Beautiful Duet of ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ With Her Dad
Four-year-old Claire Ryan sings a beautiful duet of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the movie Toy Story with her father Dave Crosby. In…
How the Zany Animated TV Series ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Made It to Air on Nickelodeon
In an adventurous episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler tells the story of how Stephen Hillenburg‘s zany animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants,…
Renowned Neurologist Oliver Sacks Quotes From an H.G. Wells Story in an Animated 1996 Lost Interview
Doctor Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist and author of such best-selling works as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and…