How do pet cats land on the feet? Learn how this question stumped brilliant minds and exactly how its reply helped solve additional seemingly difficult puzzles.

The question of how falling cats get on the feet has intrigued human beings since at least the center of the nineteenth century. With this playful and eye-opening history, physicist and kitty parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to comprehend the cat-righting reflex possess 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 discover, through scientific issue, the secret from the acrobatic performance known as cat-turning, the cat flip, as well as the cat twist. Listeners find out the solution, but also find that the finer details still inspire heated arguments. Much like other kitty behavior, the more we investigate, the more surprises we discover.