Caturday felid is moribund, but we continue today with three items and lagniappe. First, a professor found a kitten at ...

One of the most-cited empirical achievements of indigenous peoples is the ability of Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians to navigate their way across vast, unmarked expanses of the Pacific ...

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins ...

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day .

Although John McWhorter may have been taken on board the New York Times as a reliably “heterodox” columnist (remember his bestselling critique of wokeism Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed ...

Dogs are used by first responders and the military for a number of tasks. Their keen sense of smell, speed, and keen hearing give them advantages over even drones or robots, and, according to Grok, ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 and National American Beer Day. Here are the 10 top-rated American beers from the reliable Beer ...

The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA”s). That was out of character for a man who got a lot of attention for his ...

Welcome to Sunday, October 18, 2026, sabbath for goyische cats, and National Exascale Day, which celebrates this: Founded by CRAY, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, National Exascale Day takes ...

We are of course lacking readers’ wildlife photos, though I don’t know why. If you have some good ones, please send them in.

If you have good photos or videos with a wildlive/biology theme, send them in. Today we have a short but lovely video from reader Mark in Australia. His notes are these: When my daughter was quite ...