Fighting words about the Internet’s favorite subject, cats: 1. The project to eliminate cats from New Zealand (described in Slate) 2. The 16th-century German cat bomb (described in The Atlantic), and which is shown in this painting along with a bird bomb:
Tag: cat
Interaction of a cat and a theremin
This experiment shows what happened when a cat interacted with a theremin. It also shows what happened when a second cat observed that interaction: (Thanks to @Adam_Orbit for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: This experiment shows what happened when Theremin interacted with a Theremin:
Domino-stacking in quasi-parallel sheets, with a cat
A rare video of domino-stacking in quasi-parallel sheets, with a cat: (Thanks to investigator Sip Siperstein for bringing this to our attention.)
Much ado about falling cats
The folks at Smarter Every Day produced this video about falling cats—and how those cats manage to land on their feet: (Thanks to investigator Arne Tomlinson for bringing this to our attention) BONUS: The apocryphal, published study “Does a Cat Always Land on Its Feet?” from the special Animal Behavior issue (vol. 4, no. 4, […]