Eric Grundhauser writes In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper: Jack H. Hetherington was a professor of physics at Michigan State University in 1975, when he finished what would become an influential and often-cited physics paper. The academic writing, entitled Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He, was an in-depth exploration of…
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Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Fluffy ‘Ball of Fur’ Cat Illustrations by Kamwei Fong
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Friday Catblogging: Stella’s Nap
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Friday Catblogging: Flatbush Bodega Cat
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Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Lynx
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The trial reintroduction of six Eurasian lynx in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland has become more likely as 100% of the landowners approached so far have given their approval. Read the full story: https://t.co/AdtJONrThM ? Neville Buck pic.twitter.com/5avhPHXpCr — BBC Wildlife (@WildlifeMag) August 14, 2018
Adventure, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Get Paid to Hang Out With 55 Cats on a Beautiful Greek Island
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Cady Lang reports How to Get Paid to Hang Out With 55 Cats on a Beautiful Greek Island: If hanging out with a bunch of cats on an island in the Aegean Sea sounds like your idea of paradise, look no further than this very real dream job listing. God’s Little People Cat Rescue, a cat sanctuary on the beautiful…
Cats, Nature, Wisconsin
Friday Catblogging: Milwaukee-Area Cougar
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Henry J. Morgan reports The Wisconsin cougar has returned. This time reportedly in Lisbon as several residents see the wildcat: According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the cougar (puma concolor) is one of three wild cats native to the state, along with the bobcat and Canada lynx. It is the largest wildcat north…
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: These Wildcats Need the Forest to Survive
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Friday Catblogging: A Cat Census for Washington, D.C.
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Justin Wm. Moyer reports on a privately-funded count of Washington’s cats: You might know a Tiger, a Tigger or a Mr. Whiskers. But how many cats are really living in the streets and sleeping on the couches of the District? By spending $1.5 million over three years, a consortium of scientists and animal welfare organizations…
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Friday Catblogging: Cats in Japanese Cat Café Seem to Sense an Earthquake Before It Hits
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: The Poachers’ Fate
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images In a stunning instance of the animal kingdom taking karma into its own hands – or rather, paws – at least three poachers were mauled to death and then eaten by lions earlier this week after they illegally entered the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa to hunt rhinos. “They strayed…
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Friday Catblogging: A Saber-Toothed Cat
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Friday Catblogging: Cats Cradle
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Cats are like potato chips, reads a sign in Bruce and Terry Jenkins’s home. You can’t just have one! In fact, the Jenkinses have 30. They have devoted their retirement to caring for this plethora of elderly cats, transforming their home over the years into a makeshift feline senior center. “It’s kind of a big family,”…