The Whippet #167: Just trucking right along
World turtle! Reliability v. accuracy. Treat horseshoe. Neurological flexibility. Lashtabs. Task-saturation!
The Whippet #166: What part of rubeville are you from?
"There is something flamboyant about these boots which does not suit the average Englishwoman or go well with our sober English streets."
The Whippet #165: Blood, ink, shark, moon
Carl Sagan's plan to nuke the moon, squids create false bodies out of ink, and more
The Whippet #164: The son of a cat kills mice
Tigers don't have dogs for sons, the child of a snake is a snake, the son of a spider has eight legs, the bonnethead shark eats seagrass
The Whippet #163: Vulture bees and meat honey
The oldest known written sentence, otherworldly skeleton paintings, vulture bees, pet bereavement and tech bros who only read one book.
The Whippet #162: Nectar Crash
Cursed knowledge in this issue: parrot mouths, unseeable number truths. Blessed knowledge: hearts, sunbirds, joyful mice.
The Whippet #161: Not glowy enough out there
Ghost light, Alexander wept, liquid mirror telescope, Voynich Manuscript AMA, science of gift-giving
The science of gift-giving
A few research papers into how we go wrong when buying gifts for others. The mistake of overindividuation When shopping for multiple people, you tend to get different things for different people (because it seems impersonal to get everyone the same thing) and as a result, tend to buy worse
The Whippet #160: Make a fish expert angry today
Listen, I have bad news about Interpol and being an Interpol agent; hunting down international jewel thieves in an exhilarating game of cat-and-mouse.
The Whippet #159: The gem in the robe
Cybernetic and gubernatorial share the same root, so you get a DALL-E-generated image of a cybernetic governor