A scientific breakthrough underscores what my cat-fanatic editor has long believed: humans are essentially simps for their cats. Researchers from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have found that a cat’s meow is essentially a demand that we, their mortal lessers, solve their problem. Clementine, an orange Siberian cat in Brookline, Massachusetts, pictured in … Read more
Candice Bergen got her claws out at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. The actress, 78, took the Emmys stage to present the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, a honor she won five times for her portrayal of hard-nosed “FYI” news broadcaster Murphy Brown on the TV series of the same name. … Read more
Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about being catnip. Indeed, the pop superstar worked all of her flirtatious feline wiles as Bombalurina in “Cats,” the much-maligned 2019 movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. But Swift had a different kind of kitty persuasion on “Argylle,” the upcoming spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry … Read more
What do cats mean when they meow? Why do modern cats look so different to cats from a few decades ago? And would your cat really eat you if it was a few feet taller? These are all big questions — but we are living in a golden age of research about cats, according to … Read more