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Links: Valentine’s Date Night

Not That Mike The Other Mike36 Comments
Puppy reclines holding a heart-shaped pillow bearing the words "free kisses"

Big sloppy slobbery ones, too!

Animal shelter is offering a dog or cat sleepover for Valentine’s Day

Fortune, via NTMTOM

I’m so cute I stop traffic!

Chihuahua reunites with owner after being rescued along San Diego freeway

NBC San Diego, via Anna M.

Well, of COURSE their plumage is light! That’s why they can fly, duh!

Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds

The Guardian, via Anna M.

And finally: Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart

Andrew Y. shares a Valentine’s Day treat.

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Sleeping Around

Not That Mike The Other Mike9 Comments

Theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger is best known for his thought experiment known as “Schrödinger’s cat,” in which a cat hidden in a box may be simultaneously alive and dead. A lesser-known corollary, “Schrödinger’s wheel,” postulates that two cats sleeping unobserved in a box may begin rotating clockwise.

two kittens with identical white and grey-striped fur sleep in a box, with the head of each one at the rear of the other.
Counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

sleeping kittens, by bjimmy934, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Orange, Make it a Double

Not That Mike The Other Mike7 Comments

It’s two-for-one day at The Girl with the Dogs as a pair of orange sisters come in for a bath and comb-out, in this video found by reader Sharon G.

orange cat meows
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