Laughing Squid
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Ben & Jerry’s Introduces a New Line of Yummy Frozen Doggie Desserts for Beloved Canine Pals
Ben & Jerry’s, longtime purveyors of cold sweets for humans, has expanded their offerings to the canine population with their “Doggie Desserts”. This frozen treat…
Scientists Discover Brown Snakes Employing ‘Lasso Locomotion’ to Climb Vertically to Top of Metal Cylinder
Tom Seibert, a biologist at Colorado State University captured remarkable footage of a brown snake wrapping its body around like lasso in order to shimmy…
A Beautifully Calming Customizable LEGO Bonsai Tree
View this post on Instagram A post shared by LEGO (@lego) Niko Vás and Carl Merriam, designers at LEGO, created a beautifully calming sustainable LEGO…
Gorgeous 4K Drone Footage of Iconic Sights in Iceland
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and WordPress.com and friend of Laughing Squid, captured absolutely gorgeous 4K drone footage over some of Iceland’s most iconic…
Limited Series of Four Paintings From ‘The Mandalorian’ Created in the Iconic Pastoral Style of Thomas Kinkade
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Thomas Kinkade Studios (@thomaskinkade) Artist Monte Moore of Maverick Arts created a wonderful limited edition series…
Musical Astronomer Sets the Galaxy to Music
Becky Ferreira of Vice’s Motherboard virtually sat down with Matt Russo, who happens to be an astronomer, a physics lecturer at the University of Toronto,…
A BBC Earth Compilation That Shows the Magnificent Beauty of Different Owls at Various Stages of Life
A compilation of clips from BBC Earth shows the magnificent beauty of different owls at different stages of life, beginning with birth. A tiny owl…
LEGO Introduces a Customizable Flower Bouquet Kit
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, LEGO has introduced a colorful LEGO Flower Bouquet from their LEGO Botanical Collection. Each component within the kit…
Man Sets Guinness Worlds Record for Most Soap Bubbles Blown Inside a Large Soap Bubble
Chang Yu-Te of Taoyuan City, Taiwan set a rather effervescent Guinness World Record for an amazing 783 small soap bubbles that he blew into a…
How Some Squids Are Able to Fly
In a lofty Ted-Ed (previously) lesson written by Robert Siddall and animated by Matt Reynolds, narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott shares the rather interesting fact that certain…