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Maneki-neko: The Real History of Japan’s Beckoning Cat
Maneki-neko history: Japan's beckoning cat first appears in Edo records from 1852, not ancient myth. Paw meanings, colors, temples and the real origins.
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Maneki-neko: The Real History of Japan's Beckoning Cat✦Songs About Cats: From Nina Simone to Radiohead✦Cat Simulator Games: The Design Problem of Playing as an Animal With No Hands✦Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat, and the Imageboard Religion of Lolcats✦The Cat Distribution System: How a Joke Became Internet Folklore✦Studio Ghibli's Cats: What Miyazaki's Felines Actually Mean✦Maneki-neko: The Real History of Japan's Beckoning Cat✦Songs About Cats: From Nina Simone to Radiohead✦Cat Simulator Games: The Design Problem of Playing as an Animal With No Hands✦Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat, and the Imageboard Religion of Lolcats✦The Cat Distribution System: How a Joke Became Internet Folklore✦Studio Ghibli's Cats: What Miyazaki's Felines Actually Mean✦
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MusicSongs About Cats: From Nina Simone to Radiohead
Songs about cats, from Nina Simone's claymation jazz club to Radiohead's mongrel cat, plus the Italian tune that…
GamingCat Simulator Games: The Design Problem of Playing as an Animal With No Hands
Cat simulator games look easy. They are not: quadruped rigs, contextual jumps, and a drone that exists only…
Memes & Internet HistoryCeiling Cat, Basement Cat, and the Imageboard Religion of Lolcats
Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat and Caturday turned anonymous imageboard cat photos into a working folk religion. The real…
Internet CultureThe Cat Distribution System: How a Joke Became Internet Folklore
The cat distribution system began as one TikTok in 2022. The real origin, the science of why strays…
Film & TVStudio Ghibli’s Cats: What Miyazaki’s Felines Actually Mean
Studio Ghibli cats are not decoration: the Catbus is yokai folklore, Jiji is Kiki's own voice, and two…
Books & ReadingT.S. Eliot’s Practical Cats: How a Poetry Side Project Became Broadway
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats began as letters to godchildren in the 1930s. How T.S. Eliot's side…
LifestyleJapan’s Cat Islands: How Fishing Villages Became Feline Colonies
Japan's cat islands, from Aoshima to Tashirojima: how fishing villages and silk farms became feline colonies, and why…
Science & SpaceHow Cats Land on Their Feet: The Physics of the Righting Reflex
The cat righting reflex explained: Marey's 1894 photographs, zero angular momentum, and the NASA-funded 1969 paper that solved…
CuriositiesThe Cats of the Roman Empire: How Felines Followed the Legions Across Europe
Cats in the Roman Empire arrived with the legions and sea traders 2,000 years ago. New DNA from…
AIHow AI Learned to Recognize Cats: The Google Brain Cat Experiment
In 2012 the Google Brain cat experiment gave 16,000 cores 10 million YouTube frames and zero labels. Then…
TechnologyGPS Cat Trackers and the Science of Where Your Cat Actually Goes
GPS cat trackers explained: how the hardware really works, and what tracking studies of 925 pet cats across…
MusicJazz Slang Cat: Why Musicians Call Each Other Cat
Jazz slang cat: the real history of hepcat, Cab Calloway's 1938 jive dictionary, and the contested West African…
GamingCats in Video Games: From Cait Sith to Stray
Cats in video games, from Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII to Stray: four decades of feline design,…
Memes & Internet HistoryNyan Cat at 15: The Story Behind the Rainbow Pop-Tart
Nyan Cat history at 15: the Tohoku charity livestream, the Vocaloid song, the Russian Blue named Marty, the…
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