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True Facts About The Dung Beetle by Ze Frank

Solar-Powered Phone Charger For Developing World Lets Customers Pay with a Text Message

Mobile phones are becoming an increasingly important and prevalent tool in the developing world, but phone users are often unable to keep their devices charged…

Take My Picture, Short Film About the Rise of Fashion Bloggers and Street Style Stars

“Take My Picture” by Garage Magazine is a short documentary about the rise of fashion bloggers and street style stars. The proliferation of fashion blogs…

Flying Robot Quadrotor Uses Claw to Pick Up an Object at High Speed

Inspired by the aerial hunting techniques of birds of prey, students at the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab have developed a quadrotor robot that uses…

John Law Gives His Two Cents on SantaCon

“Santa’s Loid Void & Melmoth (Stuart Mangrum & John Law)” In the post “What the F*** should we do with Santa?,” Laughing Squid partner John…

Magnetie, The Reversible Magnetic Necktie

The Magnetie is a clever necktie that keeps the tail end tucked out of sight with the help of rare earth magnets in the…

A Game of Thrones and The Princess Bride Mashup

“Jeezus Grandpa, what did you read me this thing for!?” The TV series Game of Thrones (no spoilers past season 1) and the cult classic…

Disney’s New Blog ‘Oh My Disney’ Presents Content in a Fresh Way

Oh My Disney (OMD for short) is a new blog by Disney that presents their original content in a fresh, more modern way. They do…

Walking Dead Homeland, A Political Zombie Parody That Merges Two Hit TV Series

“Zombies are invading the Homeland!” Walking Dead Homeland! is an entertaining political zombie parody by Tom Small and Todd Womack of Barely Political that merges…

Twitter Users Can Be Grouped Into Tribes Based on Word Choice

Researchers at Princeton University and the University of London analyzed 75 million tweets from 189,000 users, and found that they could use specific words to group…