Laughing Squid
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A Baseball Fan Makes an Incredible One-Handed Catch After a Bat Goes Flying Into the Stands Without Dropping His Beer
A baseball fan at a recent St. Paul Saints game made an incredible one-handed catch when a bat went flying into the stands, all without…
The Moving Story of a Visit to Salvation Mountain, An Enormous Art Installation in the California Desert
A new episode of This Happened Here by Seeker Stories tells the tale of a trip Minneapolis-based photographer Joe Bielawa took in 2009 to Salvation…
An Interactive Visualization of Over 100,000 Nearby Stars
100,000 Stars is a 2012 Chrome Experiment that’s an interactive visualization of 119,617 nearby stars in relation to the Sun. Users can zoom in and…
Beautiful Blue Ringneck Parrot Flies Onto His Human’s Shoulder Whenever His Name is Called
Marnie, a beautiful blue Indian ringneck parrot, flies onto his human’s shoulder when his name is called and proceeds to conduct an adorable conversation that…
Gorgeously Designed 3D-Printed Luxury Faucets
DXV by kitchen and bath fixture company American Standard is releasing a series of three gorgeously designed faucets produced using selective laser sintering—a type of…
Government Building in Las Cruces, New Mexico Offers a Cat Library Where Workers Can Check Out Adoptable Felines
Earlier this month we wrote about redditor Loocylooo‘s office in Southern New Mexico that offered a cat library for workers to “check out” adoptable cats…
The Mars Curiosity Rover Photographs a Shadow That Looks Like the ‘Sesame Street’ Character Big Bird
A photo taken by NASA‘s Mars Curiosity Rover features a shadow that bears a somewhat striking resemblance to the beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird. Although…
A Short Film About the Beautiful Friendship Between a NYC Puppeteer and a Local 83-Year-Old Woman
Inspired by a story about a beautiful friendship between a puppeteer and a former community activist that he first read on Laughing Squid, filmmaker David…
Summer 2015 Movie Stars Before They Were Famous
Hal Rudnick of Screen Junkies presents “Before They Were Famous #5,” a video compilation featuring some of this summer’s most beloved movie stars before they…
A History of Robots That Includes Very Early Examples Like an 18th-Century Mechanical Pooping Duck
In a recent episode of The Good Stuff, host Craig Benzine speaks with robot historian Dr. Minsoo Kang about his book Sublime Dreams of Living…