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Coffee With Jeff #129: Acoustic Kitty, Smokey Bear & Boaty McBoatface

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Three short tales on today’s show. The first is about a C.I.A. program to use kittens as spying devices. Next the story of Smokey Bear, and we finish that up with a ship the public wanted to call Boaty McBoatface!

Show notes and links:

  • Operation Acoustic Kitty • Damn Interesting (damninteresting.com)
  • Acoustic Kitty, an American Spy (theatlantic.com)
  • 4. The Sad Case of Acoustic Kitty – Top 5 Crazy Government Experiments (howstuffworks.com)
  • The CIA Plan to Use Cats as Spies (and the Taxi That Ruined It) (mentalfloss.com)
  • Smokey Bear – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
  • The Real Smokey Bear Has A New Biography | Smart News (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The story of Smokey Bear (fs.fed.us)
  • Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of British Democracy (theatlantic.com)
  • RRS Sir David Attenborough – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
  • Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name polar research vessel | Environment (theguardian.com)
  • Boaty McBoatface: Man behind name suggestion for £200m research vessel apologises ‘profusely’ (independent.co.uk)
  • Boaty McBoatface Prepares For First Antarctic Mission : The Two-Way : NPR (npr.org)
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