Cats love to sit in boxes so much, they ll even plop down in a square painted on the floor - and a new study finds they will even choose an optical illusion that looks like a square.
Animal behaviorists tested their love for boxes with a Kanizsa square, which tricks the eye into thinking there s a square using four Pac-Man-like wedges placed in each corner.
As it turns out, cats minds fill in the gaps just like humans, as the four-legged subjects sat in the illusionary squares as often as the real ones during experiments.
The felines sat with all limbs inside the optical illusions for three seconds, which may suggests it is the shape that makes them feel safe and not just the structure.
Violence against Asian Americans and Asians has grown despite increased national attention and political action against anti-Asian hate, experts said.
There was a more than 164% increase in anti-Asian hate crime reports to police in the first quarter of 2021 in 16 major cities and jurisdictions compared with last year, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
More than 6,600 hate incidents have been reported in the year after the pandemic began in the United States, Stop AAPI Hate announced this week. More than a third of those incidents were reported this March alone, according to the organization founded last year in response to increased targeting of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic.
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A man has been arrested after he was caught on security camera footage brutally beating two Asian women with a cinder block as they were trying to close up a liquor store in Baltimore, Maryland.
Daryl Doles, 50, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, according to police. It was not specified whether the attack is being treated as a hate crime.
The employees, two women aged 66 and 67, were attacked just after midnight on Tuesday. The footage from the security camera inside the store shows the man breaking into the store as one of the women attempts to close the door.
May 5, 2021
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By Peter Beinart
Mr. Beinart is a contributing Opinion writer who focuses on U.S. foreign policy.
Media coverage of President Bidenâs foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as consequential as Mr. Bidenâs quiet, incremental, moves to establish official relations with Taiwan. Because only his policy toward Taiwan is meaningfully increasing the risk of world war.
Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness - they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway).