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News of the passing of Doctor David “Spottacus” Benaron on Friday Friday July 18th, 2025 was shared and confirmed on Saturday. This doctor with a cheetah fursona was well known in the fandom for their work that enabled the capacity of smart watches to monitor heart rates. PC Mag’s Will Greenwald did a piece on the doctor on his technical and furry lives in 2022. This article had become highly shared as a focal point of people holding successful careers within furry fandom spaces.

The spotted doctor did not shy away from his hobby and the influences it had in his career successes. He gave a presentation at Berkeley called Furries, Neurodivergence and STEM: Finding Your Path From Zero to One to One Billion, which can be viewed on YouTube.

He was a prolific fursuiter that had multiple suits to his name. Other characters played by the doctor included a California sabretooth by the name of Toofs, and lion named Dandy, an Ocelot named Ozzie. More information and photos of these can be found on his WikiFur page.

To me the poster tier is pure genius, to be honest if I was going I would do that.

For more info, UPDATE Fur Squared has fully revamped it’s site https://fursquared.com/

I have a +1 to this shower with a friend

Guest Of Honor
By Royal Proclamation, FurSquared 2026 hereby declares our next Guest of Honor, Little Alpha Pup, to be the cutest good boy in all the land!

Good morning, Heroes and Villains of Brasil FurFest 2025!

Get your capes, masks, and claws ready! Friday, July 18, has arrived to kick off our epic Heroes & Villains journey! Today is the day to unleash your most heroic or villainous side and dive headfirst into a universe of fun, friendship, and lots of art. Have a day full of adventures and amazing encounters!

Friday, July 18 Schedule:

Jaraguá Theater
4 PM to 6 PM – Opening Ceremony
6 PM – Pepper Coyote in Brazil (EN)
7 PM to 9 PM – Whose Lion Is It Anyway? An Improbable Activity
9 PM to 10 PM – Gringos vs. Brazil

Main Events Room
6 PM to 8 PM – I Don’t Know Anyone Here, Now What?
8 PM – Dance Party with DJ RohWolf
9 PM – Dance Party with DJ Sopero
10 PM – Dance Party with DJ Fake Reality

Lecture Room 1
7 PM – How to Add Electronics to Your Fursuit with Mock
8 PM – 3D Modeling and Printing for Fursuits with Kaiser Skullbeast
9 PM to 11 PM – Penguin Cinema + Behind-the-Scenes Talk with OPinguim10

Lecture Room 2
6 PM – Fursuit Dance Workshop with Jinlong
7 PM – Project Hope with B. Rosa, L. Daniel, N. Azevedo, D. Silva
8 PM to 10 PM – Traditional Art Workshop – Experiment with Different Art Materials with MichaelMax
10 PM to 11 PM – São Paulo After Dark with Mecer (+18)

Meet and Greet Room
6 PM – Dragons Meet & Greet with Mekhy (Pudim)
7 PM to 10 PM – Heroes & Hordes RPG with Ratoruja
10 PM – Plushie Meetup with Kuma

Gaming Room
2 PM to 9 PM – Games
9 PM to 11 PM – Furrokê

Don’t miss a single moment of this epic party! Download our app or check the schedule online to have everything at your fingertips:

Android (Play Store):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.furmeet.events.bff

Web (iOS/Apple and other browsers):
https://bff.furmeet.app

Have an amazing day, and may the furry force be with you!

Brasil FurFest
Friends Forever

MOX NOX. Pre-order the Death Clock here: http://www.InqFactory.com/DeathClock
Special thanks to @CalebMarting for his tireless work on the prototypes. Our entire team at the Curiosity Box and Inq Factory is incredible — it’s a gift to be able to make the world curiouser with you all!

“Curiouser” is a very curious word.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

flour particle size: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335277332_Influence_of_milling_whole_wheat_grains_and_particle_size_on_thermo-mechanical_properties_of_flour_using_Mixolab

solar corona:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865

eclipse footage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14572/

KUSHIM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)

Kushim: The Unsung Hero of Written History

GAL-SAL:
https://isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/b6ace1f1-9701-4dc5-b366-8c15c7da00ca
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlP1d6zlPR/?img_index=2

Gudea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_of_Gudea
https://www.sumerianshakespeare.com/face-of-gudea

Other early human forms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man

History of human figure in art: https://jesygilkesuca.home.blog/2020/09/14/history-and-depictions-of-the-human-figure/

3D interactive DNA model: https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:5c1562b9:lx_simulation:1

How many genetic ancestors do you have? https://gcbias.org/2013/11/11/how-does-your-number-of-genetic-ancestors-grow-back-over-time/

fossilization video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wie_entstehen_Fossilien_(CC_by_4.0)_redub_EO.webm

How to become a fossil:
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24632832-100-wheres-the-best-place-to-be-buried-to-preserve-your-body-as-a-fossil/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180215-how-does-fossilisation-happen

where to be buried to become a fossil Earth images: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Big Bertha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(lunar_sample)

red giant sun: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/life-and-death-of-a-planetary-system/

Interactive voyager viewer: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/

Wifi signal in house: https://jasmcole.com/2014/07/12/wifi-strife/

How we’ve found partners over time https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1908630116

Screen time: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/screen-time-stats

Mobile phones vs toothbrushes: https://bcp-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Cell-Phones-and-Toothbrushes.pdf

Old music outselling new: https://web.archive.org/web/20160222071723/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2016/01/20/old-music-is-outselling-new-music-for-the-first-time-in-history/

“Soy Bomb” incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeNKBq63iM

Steve Fossett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett

Gabby Petito: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Gabby_Petito

Unknown soldier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002889128/

Conrad Roy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy

Frederick Douglass: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/frederick-douglass-and-the-power-of-photography.htm

Sojourner Truth: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301989

Wallace Line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul.svg

Homo Erectus image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homo_erectus,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1228_1282.jpg

Roman aqueduct image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct#/media/File:Pont_du_Gard_BLS.jpg

Chicago filmed from a dirigible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Photographed_from_Ray_Knabenshue%27s_Dirigible_Air_Ship.webm

World pop density map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Population_Density_Map_2020.png

books:
I Am A Strange Loop – Douglas_Hofstadter
A Short History of Nearly Everything Book – Bill Bryson
Reasons and Persons – Derek Parfit
Documentality – Maurizio Ferraris
Amusing Ourselves To Death – Neil Postman
Everything Bad Is Good For You – Steven Johnson
Soul Dust – Nicholas Humphrey
The View From Nowhere – Thomas Nagel

ALL MUSIC BY @jakechudnow
You can pick up Jake Chudnow’s Vsauce music on vinyl here: https://inqfactory.com/pages/vinyl

SONGS:

00ː00 – 00ː01 – J Wilde
00ː03 – 00ː26 – Food
00ː20 – 01ː14 – Rain, Dreams
01ː12 – 01ː22 – Moon Men (Instrumental)
01ː22 – 01ː33 – J Wilde
01ː26 – 02ː27 – What My Nervous Stomach Sounds Like
02ː01 – 02ː38 – For Leah
02ː39 – 03ː39 – Moon Men (Instrumental)
03ː40 – 04ː56 – Imaginary Sun
04ː49 – 05ː50 – It’s Good To Be D
05ː50 – 06ː37 – Thunder
06ː37 – 08ː03 – For You
08ː11 – 10ː08 – Rain, Dreams
10ː02 – 11ː10 – Hydrogen
11ː34 – 11ː50 – Prelude To Shona
11ː50 – 13ː02 – For Leah
13ː09 – 13ː56 – Shallow Anne
13ː41 – 13ː56 – Monkey Morning
13ː56 – 16ː10 – J Wilde
15ː56 – 19ː04 – Olive
19ː06 – 21ː54 – J Wilde

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