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Ship’s Cats: The Naval History of Felines at Sea
Ship's cats sailed with Vikings, Flinders and the Royal Navy until 1975. The real naval history of felines at sea, from Trim to Simon's Dickin Medal win.
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Ship's Cats: The Naval History of Felines at Sea✦The Rise and Fall of Cat Blogs: A History of the Feline Web, 1995-2010✦Cat People (1942): How a Low-Budget Horror Film Redefined the Genre✦The Cat in Japanese Literature: From Soseki to Murakami✦Library Cats: The Long Tradition of Felines on the Public Payroll✦Félicette, the Cat Who Went to Space: The Forgotten 1963 Flight✦Ship's Cats: The Naval History of Felines at Sea✦The Rise and Fall of Cat Blogs: A History of the Feline Web, 1995-2010✦Cat People (1942): How a Low-Budget Horror Film Redefined the Genre✦The Cat in Japanese Literature: From Soseki to Murakami✦Library Cats: The Long Tradition of Felines on the Public Payroll✦Félicette, the Cat Who Went to Space: The Forgotten 1963 Flight✦
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Internet CultureThe Rise and Fall of Cat Blogs: A History of the Feline Web, 1995-2010
Cat blogs ruled the web before social feeds arrived. From Usenet to Carnival of the Cats, Cute Overload…
Film & TVCat People (1942): How a Low-Budget Horror Film Redefined the Genre
Cat People (1942) cost RKO $135,000 and 18 shooting days, then redefined horror by never showing the monster.…
Books & ReadingThe Cat in Japanese Literature: From Soseki to Murakami
Cats in Japanese literature run from Soseki's nameless narrator to Murakami's missing strays. Here is the history, the…
LifestyleLibrary Cats: The Long Tradition of Felines on the Public Payroll
Library cats have been on the public payroll since 1868, from British Post Office mousers at a shilling…
Science & SpaceFélicette, the Cat Who Went to Space: The Forgotten 1963 Flight
Félicette was the first cat in space, launched by France in 1963 on a Véronique rocket. Her 13-minute…
CuriositiesManeki-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,…
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…
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