Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
How Bees Make Honey and Control Which Bees Become Queens or Workers
It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson explains how bees make honey and how they control which bees become queens or workers. The video…
A Unique Award-Winning Concept for a Horizontal Skyscraper Built Around a Sunken Central Park
New York Horizon, the first place winning design of the EVolo 2016 Skyscraper Competition by architects Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, uses an incredibly novel…
New Insight Into the Mysterious Tully Monster and How a Fish Reproduced Alone by Selfing
The latest installment of SciShow News gives new insight into the taxonomy of the mysterious Tully Monster, a strange creature that lived around 300 million…
Jennifer Lopez and James Corden Sing Carpool Karaoke and Discuss Butt Insurance
Jennifer Lopez and James Corden sing some “Carpool Karaoke” and discuss butt insurance on The Late Late Show. Corden also borrows Lopez’s phone to send…
Stop-Motion Animated Snapchat Video of an Orange Adventuring Through a Side-Scrolling Video Game
Joe Penna (a.k.a. “MysteryGuitarMan“) used “some fruits, Snapchat, and a lot of free time” to create a stop-motion animated video of an orange adventuring through…
Beautiful Miniature Sculptures Intricately Carved Into Pencil Lead
A photo posted by ??? (@chien.chu.lee) on Dec 13, 2015 at 10:19am PST Taiwanese self-taught artist Chien Chu Lee has created a series of beautiful…
World Records for Most Disc Cases Toppled, Longest Domino Wall, and Largest Stick Bomb Broken in One Chain Reaction
The Austrian Domino Art group has simultaneously broken the three Guinness World Records for “Most Disc Cases Toppled in a Domino Fashion,” “Longest Domino Wall,” and…
How to Make Incredible Hulk Pudding Cups
On a recent episode of Nerdy Nummies, Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino demonstrated how to make and decorate Incredible Hulk pudding cups. A…
Twitch Streamer Transforms Super Mario World Into Flappy Bird Using Only SNES Hardware
Twitch streamer and video game designer Seth Bling used various Super Mario World glitches to cleverly inject code, written by p4plus2, for Flappy Bird using…
Adorable Little Girl Emerges From Her Transforming BB-8 Costume at WonderCon 2016 in Los Angeles
Filmmaker and cosplayer Mars Mel of Red Planet Productions recently captured footage at WonderCon 2016 in Los Angeles of an adorable little girl’s transforming BB-8…