Animals have amazing poker faces. Well, a lot of them do—the ones whose mouths remain in a steady position no matter their mood. Not monkeys or apes, and not us. But cats? If we were to judge by the look on their face, searching our memory banks for similes, oh, cats would beat us in […]
Compressed into our DNA, they say, is this deep and hidden fear of being prey to predators. It comes to us from our ancestors, far back before housing, before tools, before weapons. And this fear rears its leviathan head in all sorts of ways. One of these is to suppose, and then obsess over, higher […]