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I started The Whippet because it’s getting harder and harder to find interesting articles without being swamped by Trump news, and it was doing my head in. I wanted a breather from the harrowing stuff, but I didn’t want just pictures of cute animals, either, I wanted things like:

• scientific discoveries
• news articles about heists
• bizarre animals
• forgotten history
• the origins of words or phrases
• what everyday life is like for, say, a Trappist monk or a female bodyguard.

I couldn’t find a newsletter like that so I made one myself. Sign up, see how you like it, I promise that’s the one and only time Trump gets mentioned.

Goes out 7am Thursdays AEST.