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  • Written by: Gregory J. Gbur
  • Narrated by: David Stifel
  • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles.

The question of how falling cats land on their feet has intrigued humans since at least the middle of the 19th century. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist, and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights into puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscience, and human space exploration.

The result is an engaging tumble through physics, physiology, photography, and robotics to uncover, through scientific debate, the secret of the acrobatic performance known as cat-turning, the cat flip, and the cat twist. Listeners learn the solution, but also discover that the finer details still inspire heated arguments. As with other cat behavior, the more we investigate, the more surprises we discover.

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©2019 Gregory J. Gbur (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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  • Categories: History
World Science Physics Biological Sciences
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Cats, cats and more cats!

Who could have possibly imagined that there was enough information about falling cats to fill 9 hours?!? Fortunately, Gbur did, and just as curiosity is said to do dastardly things to cats, his fascination with cats ‘always landing on their feet’ led him to study the phenomena.
For those horrified by the propensity of early experiments in which cats were intentionally dropped, rest assured that Gbur is a cat lover who would never condone such a thing; in fact he pleads for the listener to avoid any thoughts of doing so. Instead, he relies solely on historical research. It’s rather remarkable stuff.

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