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Ivan Owen (previously) and his daughter have built an elaborate but ultimately ineffective cereal-eating machine to solve the problem of Owen’s daughter eating her cereal…

“Someday, little friend, I will tell you about the very first Kickstarter.” Dear Laughing Squid readers and cephalopods: This is my 7,240th post as Senior…

When underwater photographer Timothy Ewing set out to capture images of a beautiful red octopus, he didn’t realize that the curious cephalopod would start looking…

The incredibly detailed ink and paint illustrations of Michigan artist Pat Perry are remarkable in the way that they allow the concept of memory to…

A new animation of the dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn spacecraft gives insight into the mysterious bright spots seen on the surface. The animation…

Taras Kulakov, aka CrazyRussianHacker, demonstrates a quick way to open a pomegranate without making a mess by damaging the seeds inside. Trypophobes beware.

Joe Doucet designed Minim, a sleek set of minimalist playing cards that feature simple geometric shapes as reductive representations of card suits. The cards come…

Academy Award winning director Zana Briski has created a fascinating short film that studies the very complex faces of praying mantises as they go about…

Lily is a high-definition camera drone that can be set to automatically follow a moving subject, or even fly out ahead on its own. It…

Filmmaker Lorenzo Antico (previously) has created “Final Shot,” a dramatic montage of the final moments in popular movies, right before they fade to black. He…