LatestFélicette was the first cat in space, launched by France in 1963 on a Véronique rocket. Her 13-minute flight, her fate, and the name history got wrong.
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CuriositiesManeki-neko history: Japan's beckoning cat first appears in Edo records from 1852, not ancient myth. Paw meanings, colors,…
MusicSongs about cats, from Nina Simone's claymation jazz club to Radiohead's mongrel cat, plus the Italian tune that…
GamingCat simulator games look easy. They are not: quadruped rigs, contextual jumps, and a drone that exists only…
Memes & Internet HistoryCeiling Cat, Basement Cat and Caturday turned anonymous imageboard cat photos into a working folk religion. The real…
Internet CultureThe cat distribution system began as one TikTok in 2022. The real origin, the science of why strays…
Film & TVStudio Ghibli cats are not decoration: the Catbus is yokai folklore, Jiji is Kiki's own voice, and two…
Books & ReadingOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats began as letters to godchildren in the 1930s. How T.S. Eliot's side…
LifestyleJapan's cat islands, from Aoshima to Tashirojima: how fishing villages and silk farms became feline colonies, and why…
Science & SpaceThe cat righting reflex explained: Marey's 1894 photographs, zero angular momentum, and the NASA-funded 1969 paper that solved…
CuriositiesCats in the Roman Empire arrived with the legions and sea traders 2,000 years ago. New DNA from…
AIIn 2012 the Google Brain cat experiment gave 16,000 cores 10 million YouTube frames and zero labels. Then…
TechnologyGPS cat trackers explained: how the hardware really works, and what tracking studies of 925 pet cats across…
MusicJazz 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 in Final Fantasy VII to Stray: four decades of feline design,…
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