Two men, Naoto Matsumura and Sakae Kato, both still live in the Fukushima exclusion zone where they are taking care of animals.

A police chief in South Carolina says there is no “almost no danger” to the public after 43 monkeys escaped from a medical lab.

Even if cats understand what we’re saying, de Mouzon says, “they have a right to choose if they don’t want to interact.”

Despite his ultra-radical leanings, Lay has been almost entirely excised from modern history books. “The wildness of his methods of approaching antislavery is part of it,” Rediker says. “He was extremely militant and completely uncompromising.” This level of abolitionist militance was unprecedented, and only began to become common after the 1830s. Lay sits outside of the standard narrative of the movement, and his disability and lower socioeconomic status make him difficult to place in a clear historical model. “He just didn’t fit the story,” Rediker says.

What a hero.

Instead of just eating less meat because it’s not necessary, it’s become acceptable to experiment on animals to make them less-bad for the environment before being turned into tasty hamburger.

Where would science be today, if it weren’t for bloodthirsty capitalists?

Promising research (controlled and uncontrolled) has found a potential cure for FIP, but Gilead put profits over patients and is focusing on Getting approval of chemically-similar remdesivir instead.

The FIP treatment has inspired an underground market for cat guardians, who spend thousands of dollars buying unverified vials from China.

Lillian’s new second-favorite bird. Not quite as great as cardinals, but close.