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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…
Clever Human Wears a Peanut Butter Headband to Distract His Bulldog In Order to Clip His Nails
A rather creative human quite cleverly utilized his bulldog’s love for peanut butter in order to provide a yummy distraction while the canine’s nails were…
A Poignant Acoustic Cover of Metallica’s ‘Fade to Black’ Simultaneously Played on Two Guitars by One Musician
Musician Luca Stricagnoli, who performs gorgeous acoustic versions of popular songs, played a brilliant dual acoustic guitar cover of the poignant Metallica song “Fade to…
Snubby J and ZeroElectroDrum Perform a Percussive Duet on PVC Pipe Instruments
Snubby J (Kent Jenkins) collaborated with ZeroElectroDrum to perform a virtual duet on their respective percussion instruments. Snubby J played the RimbaTubes, an instrument he…