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Cats are adorable. These free-spirited furry buddies are always fun to be around, and that’s why so many of us love them.However, they’re also known to be pretty temperamental and, sometimes, quite petty. For example, this Redditor recently shared a story about her cat, demonstrating her disgust toward the woman’s boyfriend because he couldn’t come over for a month and the ways she’s done that made her seem like a top-of-the-class drama major. Scroll down to read the full story!More info: RedditWhile cats may appear…

You’ve written extensively about dogs, pigs, camels, etc. What drew you to research bovines? Author Yamini Narayanan (Courtesy Navayana) My foray into animals in my research was unexpected – a video taken by undercover activists documenting the screams and almost unseeable suffering involved in the live plucking of rabbits for angora fur came my way. The screams of the rabbits were not of this world – it comes from a timespace of pain from torture that no sentient being should have to endure. I was shocked and…

Everyone who grew up with a tape deck remembers mixtapes, or compilation tapes, as we used to call them in the UK. They remember sitting with a pile of records or CDs, assembling the perfect order, sending the right message. The narrator of Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity, Rob Fleming, had a set of parameters that had to be observed: “You can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs, and … oh, there are loads of rules.”“My first girlfriend and I had a cassette,”…

When Stephanie Sanders-Jacob woke up last Thursday, it felt a bit like Christmas: Hasbro had announced a new Furby for the first time in almost seven years.“I have to admit, I cried,” said Sanders-Jacob, who has a collection of about 40. “I’ve already ordered two — one in each color.”It may have been decades since you last thought about Furby, the genderless part-owl, part-hamster-like toy with deadpan human-like eyes that can most accurately be compared to Mogwai from the 1980s movie “Gremlins.” But since it debuted in…

One question is whether the algorithmic processes of today’s chatbots, which operate by scanning the relationships between symbols in vast text libraries, is a form of mental organization that can surface new information and insight. One question is whether the algorithmic processes of today’s chatbots, which operate by scanning the relationships between…

Credit: Rutgers University Press Experts have long believed that in fast-growing, urban environments, polygamy would disappear. In Bamako, Mali, where the population is nearly 3 million and rapidly growing, and economic incentives to polygamy have faded, this hasn't been the case. Currently, one in four wives is in a polygamous…

“We’ve built our robotaxi from the ground up. Now, to truly test it, we have to break it apart.” That’s the sentiment shared by robotaxi developer Zoox as it looks to finally launch its truly driverless EV to the public soon. In the final chapter of its “Putting Zoox to the Test” YouTube series, Zoox shared unique safety features that went into the robotaxi design and, of course, included plenty of footage of its EV getting smashed up. See more below. Zoox is an autonomous vehicle specialist…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Immigration is a critical topic in contemporary political and academic debates. Politicians and the general population alike in countries around the world have often shown hostility towards immigrants. A typical argument made by those who oppose immigration is that it increases crime. If people…

Crypto coins to endure the Market in 2023 with some of them ready to bring enormous gains Entire publications these days are occupied with the word cryptocurrency. In the hedge against inflation, cryptocurrency word is gaining popularity. Crypto coins are volatile in nature, so they trade at unpredictable prices. The currencies are designed to go up and down to generate profits. Despite being volatile in nature, cryptocurrencies are proven to be viable for investment. The year 2022 market wasn’t great, most crypto coins…

Though AI and art are at loggerheads, NFTs and Metaverse are bound to find their sweet spot in future The year 2022 has been quite the year for AI art. Nothing proves more than the controversies and the aplomb it received last year. It was the fastest-moving technology, particularly, in the second half. From generating images, though some distorted and hardly meaningful, to making movies with few worded prompts, it seemed as if it is about to obliterate humans from art and artistic pursuits. But what provoked art critics…