Ever feel like you're not sure whether you're coming or going?
You could be in a "cat state":
This fall scientists announced that they had put a half dozen beryllium atoms into a "cat state."No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a "cat state" is the condition of being two diametrically opposed conditions at once, like black and white, up and down, or dead and alive.
The universe: weirder even than cats.
And all through the house, not a creature was stirring. Certainly not Nuala (below) and Nemo (below that), my feline niece and nephew, who were way too pooped from a hard day of napping to wait up for Santa...
Still life: Mrs. Kennedy on ugly couch. Cuz what’s the point of having nice furniture when you’ve got cats? It gets clawed up just the same whether you spent $2,000 on a leather sofa or $50 for two loveseats at a garage sale. (The much more demure slipcovers that usually cover the couches are at the laundromat.)
