Friday Catblogging: In a First, Cheetah Cubs Born Through Surrogacy at the...
See In a First, Cheetah Cubs Born Through Surrogacy at the Columbus Zoo.Read more...
View ArticlePrudent Human Changes Concerning Exotic Animals
Karin Brulliard reports The next pandemic is already coming, unless humans change how we interact with wildlife, scientists say: The new coronavirus, which has traversed the globe to infect more than 1...
View ArticleAttorney General William Barr Fails Chemistry (and Trial Advocacy)
On CBS’s Face the Nation, United States Attorney General William Barr offered his scientific assessment of the use of pepper spray, by contending that “pepper spray is not a chemical irritant…it’s not...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Cats Along the Silk Road
Science Magazine has an article asking readers Care For Cats? So Did People Along The Silk Road More Than 1,000 Years Ago: Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Cat Geoglyph Found Among Nazca Lines
Sam Jones reports Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru: The dun sands of southern Peru, etched centuries ago with geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, an orca – and a figure...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: ‘Nip
[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: A Study on Cats & Milk Prebiotics
Lauren Quinn reports Milk prebiotics are the cat’s meow, research shows: If you haven’t been the parent or caregiver of an infant in recent years, you’d be forgiven for missing the human milk...
View ArticleOn COVID-19 Skeptics
It was likely, as it was a century ago during a prior pandemic, that significant numbers of Americans would argue falsely there was no pandemic (‘just like the regular flu’), that if it were a pandemic...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Why Cats Do These 6 Things
Narimes Parakul writes Why your cat does these 6 things, according to science: Having a cat (or several) can add companionship and warmth to any household. As you share each other’s space, however, you...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Science
It seemed reasonable, months ago, to wait until the end of the 2020-2021 school year to assess how well the Whitewater Unified School District managed the pandemic. It doesn’t seem so reasonable now,...
View ArticleFrom Comic-Con@Home 2021: The Science of Art
How is STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) used to inspire and create our most beloved popular arts? What do portrayals of science and scientists in popular media get right and wrong? From...
View ArticleWise Words for Whitewater from Steak-umm
There’s a thread on Twitter from Steak-umm (an American brand of thin-sliced frozen steaks) that does a better job (truly) discussing the role of science and skepticism about the pandemic than much of...
View ArticleI Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It
? Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Cats’ Genomes
In One More Thing We Have in Common With Cats, Katherine Wu writes about the similarities between feline and human genomes: Cats, it turns out, harbor genomes that look and behave remarkably like ours....
View ArticleDaily Bread for 9.7.21: Formation, General
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see morning thundershowers with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 7:17 PM, for 12h 50m 22s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.3% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Tabbies
James Gorman reports How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: A team of geneticists reported Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications that it had identified a gene in domestic cats that plays a key role in...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Siamese Cats as Heat Maps
Annie Rauwerda writes Siamese cats are heatmaps of themselves: Siamese cats are walking heatmaps. Their characteristic coloration results from a delightful mutation (maybe I should call it a...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Cats Have Attachment Styles
In Current Biology, Kristyn R. Vitale, Alexandra C. Behnke, and Monique A.R. Udell have reported their findings on Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans. Here is a summary of their report,...
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