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Pop Culture

The 5 Most Badass Cats In Science Fiction

May 1, 2017 by Nik Bonopartis 1 comment

Jones, Alien Image Source Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley was many things — warrant officer on an interstellar freighter, seminal science fiction heroine, and most importantly, a survivor. But Ripley wasn’t the only member of the Nostromo crew to outlast the terrifying menace of the “xenomorph,” the titular Alien from Ridley Scott’s 1979 SF/horror masterpiece. Jonesey, […]

Scientific Studies

Do Cats Reminisce And Remember? Japanese Scientists Say Yes

April 11, 2017 by Nik Bonopartis

In 2014, when Slate’s David Grimm set out to learn why there were so few studies on feline cognition compared to the abundance of research on dogs, scientists almost laughed him off the phone. “We did one study on cats—and that was enough!” Hungarian scientist Ádám Miklósi, a top animal cognition expert and cat lover, […]