Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
The Food Surgeon Performs a Surgical Harvest of Tiny Legumes From the Pod of a Sugar Snap Pea
The mysterious Food Surgeon once again donned a pair of latex gloves and went back into the operating theater in order skillfully harvest the tiny…
Loyal Penguin Travels Hundreds of Miles to Repeatedly Visit the Brazilian Man Who Saved Him
In 2015, the Wall Street Journal posted a wonderfully heartwarming video about a retired bricklayer named Joao Pereira de Souza who lives off the coast…
Animation Students Rotoscope Footage of a Galloping Horse From the 1870s in Creative Ways
Professor Paolo Pedercini asked his students at the Carnegie Melon University School of Art animation program to rotoscope footage of a galloping horse taken from…
Professional Fingerboarders Perform Tricks on Top of a Rotating Table in a Fancy Restaurant
Kuma Films captured footage of the professional Taiwan-based KARAT Fingerboarding team performing awesome tricks on top of a rotating table in a fancy restaurant. A…
Everything Wrong With the Watchmen Film
CinemaSins presents everything wrong with Watchmen, the 2009 film directed by Zack Snyder based on the DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave…
The Genetic and Biological Reasons Explaining Why Hair Grows in Curly, Wavy or Straight
Craig Benzine aka Wheezy Waiter of the Mental Floss series “Big Questions“ very quickly and concisely explained the genetic and biological reasons explaining why some…
Geometric Beasts, Intricate Drawings Beautifully Fusing Together Animals and Geometric Shapes
A photo posted by Kerby Rosanes (@kerbyrosanes) on Mar 8, 2016 at 2:42am PST Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes used his black pens to create Geometric…
Tension and Conflict Escalate in a New Trailer for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War
Marvel released a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War, the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The…
Rearranging the Shapes of the States to Create a New Map of the United States of America
xkcd creator Randall Munroe rearranged the shapes of the 48 contiguous states to create a new map of the United States of America. image via…
Drone Footage and Household Objects Used to Show the Scale of the Solar System and Distant Location of Planet 9
Mark Rober created a scale model of the solar system using a soccer ball on a football field as the Sun to show the scale…