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Daily Bread for 6.29.25: Stay Hydrated

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 20 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2007,  Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. Stay Hydrated:…

Cats, Faraway Places

Friday Catblogging: Cats in Istanbul

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hüseyin can (@keyif_art) In Istanbul, cats are not just animals, they are also a living heritage that lives in one integrated with the city. The craftsmen who take care of them, the apartment dwellers who put food and water on their doors, the children who hug…

Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: Cats Can Identify Owners from Strangers by Scent

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Embed from Getty Images Cats can identify owners from strangers by scent: The study by Tokyo University of Agriculture found cats spent significantly longer sniffing tubes containing the odours of unknown people compared to tubes containing their owner’s smell. This suggests cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans based on their odour, the researchers…

Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: The Genetics of Orange-Colored Cats

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Embed from Getty Images Two new studies identify the genetics behind orange house cats: Now two papers, published concurrently on Thursday in Current Biology,reveal a remarkably unique genetic pathway that has never been seen in other felines—or any other mammals. With their colleagues, two separate groups at Stanford University and Kyushu University in Japan independently arrived at the same surprising…