Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
How Airplane Flight Recorders Function to Provide Detailed Information About Crashes
Vox reporter Joss Fong recently took a close look at how airplane flight recorders aka black boxes function to provide details that would otherwise be…
How Charles Dickens Sought to Change the Social Climate and Opinions Through His Prolific Works
In the “Literature” series, the School of Life offers insight into the incredibly prolific Charles Dickens, who used his writing to comment upon social issues…
Strategically Placed Musical Rumble Strips That Play a Song While Driving Up the Road to Mount Fuji
While driving along the highway leading to Mount Fuji in Japan, YouTuber sgtlyxix took note of special rumble strips that had been strategically placed along…
Stephen Colbert Interviews Net Neutrality Expert Tim Wu While Riding a Roller Coaster
Stephen Colbert interviewed Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu on the subject of net neutrality (a term coined by him in 2003) while riding the Nitro…
CatCon LA, A Weekend Event ‘Like Comic-Con But for Cat People’ Returns for a Second Year
CatConLA, the two-day event in Los Angeles, California dedicated to all things feline, is returning for its second year. Taking place on June 24 and…
Tom Scott Visits a Blooming Corpse Flower and Explains Its Unique Smell and Reproductive Strategy
Tom Scott visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, England to get a whiff of a blooming corpse flower and to explain its unique smell and…
Man Calmly Tells a Bear To Get Out of His Dumpster
Upon discovering a wayward bear digging around in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado dumpster, a man very calmly called out “Hey Bear” several times to get…
Pianist Ludovico Einaudi Plays Beautiful Composition While Floating Upon the Arctic Ocean
As a part of their admirable Save the Arctic project to save the marine life of the northeast Atlantic, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise met…
A Fallen Power Line Electrifies a Metal Swing Set and Surrounding Fence in a Suburban Backyard
A fallen power line electrified a metal swing set and the surrounding fence in the backyard of a home in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The swing…
Fascinating Illusionary Makeup Art by Artist Dain Yoon
A photo posted by ??? Dain Yoon (@designdain) on Jun 3, 2016 at 4:34pm PDT Seoul, South Korea artist Dain Yoon has created a fascinating…