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Remembering Maru: The Cat Who Made a Box Worth Watching
Remember Maru's life, his dated Guinness record and the household behind his videos, with a careful look at what research says about cats and boxes.
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Film & TVPuss in Boots: From Perrault’s Trickster to Toei’s Mascot
Follow Puss in Boots from earlier Italian tales and Perrault's manuscript to Toei's Pero, separating documented versions from…
Books & ReadingThe Cheshire Cat: An Older Saying, a New Character and an Uncertain Origin
The Cheshire Cat’s grin predates Wonderland. The manuscript and the novel show how Carroll transformed an expression into…
LifestyleHemingway’s Polydactyl Cats: The Colony, the Genetics and the Court Case
What the museum, genetic studies and a federal court opinion tell us about Hemingway’s cats—and where their accounts…
Science & SpaceWhy Cats Cannot Taste Sweet: Genes, Umami and Feline Taste
The missing sweet receptor is only part of feline taste. What genetics and taste studies show about sugar,…
CuriositiesThe Cat Lady Stereotype: What the Historical Record Shows
Witchcraft records, satirical prints and suffrage imagery reveal several histories behind the cat-lady stereotype, rather than one simple…
AICats in AI Training Data: From Shelter Photos to Neural Networks
How cats became CAPTCHA subjects, benchmark categories and learned visual features—and what those examples do not prove about…
TechnologyMicrochip Cat Flaps and Cameras: The Engineering of Selective Pet Doors
How microchip cat flaps identify pets, why readers can struggle, and what prey-detecting cameras can—and cannot—tell you about…
MusicCats in Opera and Classical Music: From Rossini’s Cat Duet to Prokofiev’s Clarinet
From Rossini’s borrowed cat duet to Prokofiev’s clarinet: feline music, ballet and opera, with the keyboard legends separated…
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