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Germany Wants To Change The Way We Grocery Shop With A Waste-Free Market

One of the leading contributors of garbage is food packaging. The United States still produces roughly three pounds of trash per person every day, and nearly 80% of food is wrapped in some sort of packaging. Germany though, could be leading a change in...

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This Painter Explores Pleasure With Dripping, Sensual Portraits

Ivan Alifan is a Russian-born artist who is fascinated with sex and sensuality. Growing up in a culture where sex was very much taboo, Ivan now always works to celebrate sexual freedom in his decadent, candy-colored paintings. We caught up with him for an insight into his practice. Where did it all begin for you? My ability to draw was discovered in Russia at a young age by...

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The Garden Festival Skips Excess in Favor of Intimacy

More sound, more lights, more flames, more lasers, more, more, more! That appears to be the mantra of most festival organizers these days. And...

How Did ‘Transformers 4’ Make $300 Million Its Opening Weekend?

Seven years ago a big budget movie based on a cartoon from the 1980s with impressive CGI effects came out, and made $29 million on...

Rapper Pitbull Took The Best Graduation Photo

Pitbull just received an honorary degree from Miami's Doral College -- and no, it wasn't for the physics of booty shaking in a club --...

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Turkish Artist Creates Impossibly Small Paintings On Pieces Of Food

We've featured some pretty incredibly tiny and intricately detailed art in the past, but nothing comes close to the paintings of Hasan Kale. The Turkish...

A Robot Is About To Hitchhike Across Canada

There was a time in America's past where hitchhiking was a common thing. People in need of a ride and short on cash thought nothing...

Hail Wrecked Havoc On Nebraska And The Photos Are Incredible

Mother Nature hit the midwest with some serious power last week with a massive storm that included some pretty devastating hail. Laughing Squid picked up...

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Girl Rising Is Reaching Out To Help Kidnapped Nigerian School Girls

It's been over two weeks since gunmen stormed into the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria and kidnapped 300 girls between the ages of 9 and 15 years old. Just recently, Al Jazeera has reported that an additional eight girls have been kidnapped by terrorist group embers of Boko Haram. Boko Haram's leader, Abubaker Shekau, has criticized the teachings of western culture to...

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