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Feb 2024
21:
The Whippet Special: Venus News Extra Extra
Feb 2024
15:
The Whippet #179: Antarctica is not the answer
Jan 2024
12:
The Whippet #178: Somebody better say something about the moon
Nov 2023
30:
The Whippet #177: The key to lasting happiness is cdeispnili
Sep 2023
19:
The Whippet #176: Smeared across time
Aug 2023
18:
The Whippet #175: Buttery soft conspiracy
Jul 2023
27:
The Whippet #174: Extending my physical influence
Jul 2023
6:
The Whippet #173: Heavy Business Pigeon
Jun 2023
22:
The Whippet #172: Skeuomorphic Ghosts
Jun 2023
1:
The Whippet #171: A delicate, narrow snout and a pleasant disposition
May 2023
11:
The Whippet #170: The best thing I know about bones
Apr 2023
26:
The Whippet #169: A feeling in search of a cause
Apr 2023
13:
The Whippet #168: An indulgent loss of focus
Mar 2023
30:
The Whippet #167: Just trucking right along
Mar 2023
15:
The Whippet #166: What part of rubeville are you from?
Mar 2023
1:
The Whippet #165: Blood, ink, shark, moon
Feb 2023
15:
The Whippet #164: The son of a cat kills mice
Feb 2023
2:
The Whippet #163: Vulture bees and meat honey
Jan 2023
18:
The Whippet #162: Nectar Crash
Dec 2022
14:
The Whippet #161: Not glowy enough out there
Dec 2022
1:
The Whippet #160: Make a fish expert angry today
Nov 2022
16:
The Whippet #159: The gem in the robe
Oct 2022
27:
The Whippet #158: Jackdaw Democracy
Oct 2022
13:
The Whippet #157: Rat snakes, strong snakes, wine snakes, germ snakes
Oct 2022
13:
Mobility Routine Experiment
Sep 2022
29:
The (mini) Whippet #156: Do not panic!
Sep 2022
14:
The Whippet #155: Do spiders dream of electric flies?
Aug 2022
31:
The Whippet #154: Refuge in audacity
Aug 2022
18:
The Whippet #153: Shake off the shackles of the page
Aug 2022
3:
The Whippet #152: Omnivores vs Cucinivores
Jul 2022
20:
The Whippet #151: Are you worried about OUTER SPACE?
Jul 2022
6:
The Whippet #150: Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things
Jun 2022
22:
The Whippet #149: Getting rhizomatic with the lads
Jun 2022
9:
The Whippet 148: The cool, high peaks of mountains
May 2022
26:
The Whippet #147: How's my perceiving?
May 2022
12:
The Whippet #146: Keep disguises out of sight
Apr 2022
27:
The Whippet #145: Another day in the art mines
Apr 2022
14:
The Whippet #144: What of it, if some old sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?
Mar 2022
31:
The Whippet #143: Echidnas pacing the frozen forests
Mar 2022
16:
The Whippet #142: Experiments performed on a cosmical scale
Mar 2022
3:
The Whippet #141: Say yes and figure out how later
Feb 2022
17:
The Whippet #140: Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless
Feb 2022
2:
The Whippet #139: Heads or tentacles?
Jan 2022
20:
The Whippet #138: Nothing rhymes with money-laundering
Jan 2022
1:
The Whippet #137: Please don’t make me fight a fire ant
Dec 2021
13:
Whippet Cetera: Two ways to think about hope
Dec 2021
8:
The Whippet #136: Please don't explain to me what a metasurface is
Nov 2021
25:
The Whippet #135: “That’s not very sentinel chicken of you”
Nov 2021
10:
The Whippet #134: Those that tremble as if they were mad
Oct 2021
28:
The Whippet #133: Someone stubborn
Oct 2021
21:
Whippet Cetera: Courage's dark counterpart
Oct 2021
14:
The Whippet #132: My books are getting ruined and birds wake me before dawn
Sep 2021
29:
The Whippet #131: How to pick up and hold dozens of animals
Sep 2021
15:
The Whippet #130: I wish to express my joy of the cat
Sep 2021
2:
The Whippet #129: Lethal Allele
Aug 2021
18:
The Whippet #128: Arbitrarily dangerous cargo
Aug 2021
11:
Whippet Cetera: The Ninth Metal and the blender theory of art
Aug 2021
4:
The Whippet #127: Mannequin Avalanche
Jul 2021
22:
The Whippet #126: iota, jot, scintilla, whit, shred, scrap, trace, crumb, smidgin, morsel, mote, dab
Jul 2021
7:
The Whippet #125: Bad case of Solstice Throat
Jun 2021
23:
The Whippet #124: There is no such thing as invisibility or silence
Jun 2021
10:
The Whippet #123: Reasons not to be in a shipwreck
May 2021
27:
The Whippet #122: The polywater fiasco
May 2021
13:
The Whippet #121: Just trying to be the best lizard I can be
Apr 2021
28:
The Whippet #120: The mammoths are waiting to be dug up
Apr 2021
15:
The Whippet #119: Lurking in the mouths of rivers
Mar 2021
25:
The Whippet #118: Meteor Salmon King
Mar 2021
10:
The Whippet #117: I could probably beat a mouse in an arm-wrestling match
Feb 2021
25:
The Whippet #116: Crunchy centre of the iceberg
Feb 2021
11:
The Whippet #115: More crowns, please 🖐✊🖐✊
Jan 2021
28:
The Whippet #114: Living that cookiecutter shark lifestyle
Jan 2021
14:
The Whippet #113: An invitation-only party that you need to crash
Dec 2020
10:
The Whippet #112: I spent two weeks straight on TikTok and now I can perceive the infinite
Nov 2020
26:
The Whippet #111: A knife or other pointed object
Nov 2020
12:
The Whippet #110: Sikorsky S-55 with a T58-G-6 turboshaft I don't care
Oct 2020
29:
The Whippet #109: How to win one type of friend and influence one type of person
Oct 2020
14:
The Whippet #108: The egg-collecting underground
Oct 2020
1:
The Whippet #107: The fall of a grand thing
Sep 2020
17:
The Whippet #106: Worried taffy
Sep 2020
3:
The Whippet #104: It's a joke but it's also sincere
Aug 2020
20:
The Whippet #103: Powerful grudge energy
Aug 2020
6:
The Whippet #102: Night-weasels
Jul 2020
23:
The Whippet #101: Without milk or absolution
Jul 2020
9:
The Whippet #100: Cease and desist, null and void, macaroni and cheese
Jun 2020
25:
The Whippet #99: Values only mean anything when they’re in conflict
Jun 2020
11:
The Whippet #98: On the scene, discussing the numbers
May 2020
28:
The Whippet #97: An impressionistic painting by a dim third-grader
May 2020
14:
The Whippet #96: The Cat's Judgement & the Iron-Eating Mice
Apr 2020
30:
The Whippet #95: Never trust the Praetorian Guard
Apr 2020
16:
The Whippet #94: High-value cargo through difficult terrain
Apr 2020
2:
The Whippet #93: Stay for the blood plastic!
Mar 2020
19:
The Whippet #92: The "Nothing About Coronavirus" Edition
Mar 2020
5:
The Whippet #91: Evil self-replicating origami
Feb 2020
20:
The Whippet #90: Facial expressions don't indicate emotions, you just imagine they do
Feb 2020
6:
The Whippet #89: Radical adequacy
Jan 2020
23:
The Whippet #88: One of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab
Dec 2019
12:
The Whippet #87: Triple-cream duck-infused brie
Nov 2019
28:
The Whippet #86: Vectors of invisible fanciness
Nov 2019
14:
The Whippet #85: On guardian spirits
Oct 2019
30:
The Whippet #84: "To leave hurriedly and secretly"
Oct 2019
17:
The Whippet #83: Latch and Leap
Oct 2019
3:
The Whippet #82: Precious porcelain rabbit
Sep 2019
19:
The Whippet #81: Fighter, Rogue, Wizard
Sep 2019
5:
The Whippet #80: Be careful!
Aug 2019
22:
The Whippet #79: On debt, financial and emotional
Aug 2019
8:
The Whippet: #78: Eigengrau
Jul 2019
25:
The Whippet #77: Any other edible being
Jul 2019
11:
The Whippet #76: Overapplying the new concept you just learnt
Jun 2019
27:
The Whippet #75: Prepared, polished, or fractured
Jun 2019
13:
The Whippet #74: The world’s worst, most incompetent enzyme
May 2019
30:
The Whippet #73: Mega Memory Workbook (1995)
May 2019
16:
The Whippet #72: How much does your skeleton weigh?
May 2019
2:
The Whippet #71: Beneath the icy waves
Apr 2019
18:
The Whippet #70: Everything there is to know about secrets
Apr 2019
4:
The Whippet #68: How to do things badly
Mar 2019
21:
The Whippet #67: The Lotus Effect
Mar 2019
7:
The Whippet #66: The mushroom-hunters become the mushroom-hunted
Feb 2019
21:
The Whippet #65: ghost apples and butterfly symbiotes
Feb 2019
7:
The Whippet #64: snake-cop interviewing a snake-criminal
Jan 2019
24:
The Whippet #63: The Cut Sublime
Jan 2019
10:
The Whippet #62: the not-wine in a wine glass
Dec 2018
27:
The Whippet #61: New year, new [Your Name Here]
Dec 2018
13:
The Whippet #60: Riverbank justice
Nov 2018
29:
The Whippet #59: "People are 20 times more likely to repeat or rephrase themselves to dogs than to humans"
Nov 2018
15:
The Whippet #58: Small-town librarian solves tea-based mysteries
Nov 2018
1:
The Whippet #57: Spooooooooooooky
Oct 2018
18:
The Whippet #56: Enough to sustain a living hoard
Oct 2018
4:
The Whippet #55: goblin energy
Sep 2018
20:
The Whippet #54: Always finish your obelisks
Sep 2018
6:
The Whippet #53: 'Keep a patch of sky above your life'
Aug 2018
23:
The Whippet #52: A painting in the right loungeroom
Aug 2018
9:
The Whippet #51: Perhaps you would be satisfied with a chrysanthemum instead?
Jul 2018
26:
The Whippet #50: No eucalyptus trees in Narnia
Jul 2018
12:
The Whippet #49: the Patron Saint of Kitsch
Jun 2018
28:
The Whippet #48: Earth, wraiths, graves and sand
Jun 2018
14:
The Whippet #47: It's always 3am somewhere
May 2018
31:
The Whippet #46: Pomegranate seeds on white sheets
May 2018
17:
The Whippet #45: Wolves are a terrible metaphor
May 2018
3:
The Whippet #44: Confer with your political advisers
Apr 2018
19:
The Whippet #43: Smash the glass and fall in among the snakes
Apr 2018
5:
The Whippet #42: specific natural cats
Mar 2018
22:
The Whippet #41: Thus we live ever without tedium or envy
Mar 2018
8:
The Whippet #40: Avoid the edges of tectonic plates
Feb 2018
22:
The Whippet #39: With conquering limbs astride from land to land
Feb 2018
8:
The Whippet #38: The Library of Discarded Books
Jan 2018
25:
The Mini-Whippet #37: Snow at Mukôjima
Jan 2018
11:
The Whippet #36: There is love even in the smallest of things
Dec 2017
28:
The Whippet #35: How to become a coconut palm
Dec 2017
14:
The Whippet #34: Build yourself two tiny telescopes
Nov 2017
30:
The Whippet #33: Ways of sparkling are separate to ways of shining
Nov 2017
16:
The Whippet #32: “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond?"
Nov 2017
2:
The Whippet #31: the stork and the turtledove, the crane, and the swallow
Oct 2017
19:
The Whippet #30: Cash in on the other fellow's experiences
Oct 2017
5:
The Whippet #29: globe-spanning, internet-connected, telepathic rat-king
Sep 2017
21:
The Whippet 28: Time is no longer our master
Sep 2017
7:
The Whippet #27: Drink carbon, spin steel
Aug 2017
24:
The Whippet #26: We don't have an official position on bats
Aug 2017
9:
The Whippet #25: Building goats again
Jul 2017
27:
The Whippet #24: Virtually indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain
Jul 2017
13:
The Whippet #23: Encourage me to quit my job and go live in a yurt
Jul 2017
6:
The Whippet #22: You have no right to do this to me
Jun 2017
29:
The Whippet #21: Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants
Jun 2017
22:
The Whippet #20: Should you rob a bank?
Jun 2017
15:
The Whippet #20: Paprika fight
Jun 2017
8:
The Whippet #19: destroyed at dawn and renewed again each night
Jun 2017
1:
The Whippet #18: I would have used more ginger
May 2017
25:
The Whippet #16: Even the dead will drink tea if they can
May 2017
18:
The Whippet #15: It beats martinis hollow
May 2017
11:
The Whippet #14: Not a single bolt remains
May 2017
4:
The Whippet #13: You are Mario!
Apr 2017
27:
The Whippet #12: From hell’s heart I stab at thee!
Apr 2017
20:
The Whippet #11: Coins, surnames, the shoreline, sleep, consciousness
Apr 2017
13:
The Whippet #10: Poison, gene editing (not CRISPR), other people's clothes, advice from comedians
Apr 2017
6:
The Mini-Whippet #9: Breakfast Edition
Mar 2017
30:
The Mini-Whippet #8: Rats and rolemodels
Mar 2017
23:
The Whippet #7: Rōnin spiders, a dandruff cure, Dickensian alarm clocks, a passive-aggressive art gallery
Mar 2017
16:
The Whippet #6: Ghost miners, moss, knife-theft and kitchen dogs
Mar 2017
9:
The Whippet #5: Mammoths, a cursed emerald, sign language and the sea
Mar 2017
2:
The Whippet #4: Crystals , keys, conundrums and a Caveat for Common Cursitors
Feb 2017
23:
The Whippet #3: Bodyguards, bees, black birds and bones
Feb 2017
16:
The Whippet #2: Silence, snow, sleuths and celebrities
Feb 2017
9:
The Whippet #1: Crabs, cats, cake and crows