Japanese radioactive pig-boars finally understood by science
An odd outcome of the 2011 nuclear accident.
Animals
Spiders can ‘tune’ their webs like guitars to help them impress potential mates
Eight-legged engineers create deadly acoustic traps.
Seamus: The musical dog that joined Pink Floyd in 1971
Pink Floyd let a dog into the studio during a recording session.
Satire goes off-leash: How fake dog adverts in ‘Canine Quarterly’ became high art
Think Vogue—but for weird dogs.
Cats and the meaning of life: John Gray on ‘Feline Philosophy’
‘Feline Philosophy,’ out November 24 in US and Canada “Epidemiology and microbiology are better guides to our future than any of our hopes or plans,”…
Holy shit, there’s video of Fred Neil singing ‘The Dolphins’
Rick Danko and Fred Neil onstage in Coconut Grove (Photo by Mark Diamond, via Twitter) Other than an impromptu appearance at a Coconut Grove café…
Freddie Mercury really loved his cats
Freddie Mercury had many loves in his life. One of his big passions was his love of cats. Mercury so loved cats he was once…
Boy George presents Captain Sensible and Lene Lovich in grossout animal rights film ‘Meathead’
The bad news first: the episode of Boy George’s nineties talk show Blue Radio on which Poly Styrene appeared, though she said she almost didn’t…