Cats Are Cuter than Babies: Cats and Art with Catnip Mag Publisher Anja Charbonneau, YouTube star Ergojosh and Artist Natalia Garcez

About this episode

This episode explores why cats are considered aesthetically and evolutionarily optimized for cuteness with various guests from the art and digital media fields.

In this cat-themed culture, history and science podcast episode, explore the why cats are aesthetically and evolutionarily optimized for peak cuteness per the kindenschema, or baby schema with illustrator of grumpy cats and graphic artist Natalia Garcez, digital artist Joshua ”Ergojosh” Stephens and Catnip Magazine publisher Anja Charbonneau.

People in this episode

Guests: Anja Charbonneau, Joshua ”Ergojosh” Stephens, Natalia Garcez

Topics covered

• cats
• art
• cuteness
• evolution
• culture
• history
• science

Keywords

• cats
• cuteness
• kindenschema
• art
• evolution
• culture
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Catnip Magazine

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