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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Van Gogh’s ear is back, an alternate ending to this week’s Game of Thrones (spoilers), Zach Galifianakis makes the best music videos, John Oliver is …

Charles Mingus Toilet Trained His Cat. We Put His Method to the Test.

Arts, Culture & Media

Video: Reg E. Cathey Reads The Charles Mingus CAT-alog

Arts, Culture & Media

Charles Mingus Toilet Trained His Cat. We Put His Method to the Test.

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Rugrats all growed up, Diet Coke goes nuclear, and gluten free art win the internet this week.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Jacob Tremblay gets down, Adam Driver looks like a cat, and the first flower in space win the internet this week.

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A baseball player hits a double, and it launches the career of Haruki Murakami

Books

Haruki Murakami, the perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, says his desire to write is all due to a double hit by an American baseball player named Dave Hilton. Really? We tracked down that player, and an expert on creativity to see if the story is truth, or fiction.

Organizers initiated the feline festivities with -- what else -- a Facebook event.

Watch out, Donald Trump: Italians dealt differently with an anti-immigrant politican. They used cats — lots of cats.

Global Politics

Some Italians thought a leader of a political party known for its xenophobic views was taking life too seriously, so they decided to shower him with more than a little feline love.

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Today’s Takeaways: Airstrikes Against ISIS, The Causes Of Greek’s Debt Crisis, and the Wildness Of Cats