Estonian researcher Sam Riley did experiments onrats and found that they had a sense of humor and fun. When he tickled(挠痒痒) his rats on the neck,they made a chirping(吱吱声) sound, which the scientist believed was laughter.While studies have shown that dogs and rats "laugh" when t...
Rats and other animals need to be highly at tuned to social signals from others so that can identify friends to cooperate with and enemies to avoid.To find out if this extends to non-living beings,Loleh Quinn at the University of California,San Diego,and her colleagues tested whether rats ...
In humans, witnessing the pain of others activates a region between the two hemispheres that is also active when we feel pain on our own body. This is considered to be one of the core empathy regions in the brain. To see whether this region is the same in rats, the team injected a d...
During Trump’s first term, heauthorized the use of military bases to detain migrant children. In 2014, then-President Barack Obama temporarily relied on military bases to detain immigrant children while ramping up privately operated family detention centers to hold many of...
I particularly like this right now as I find myself, rather painfully, stripping myself back to basics. As I examine the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical load I’ve been adding to for the last thirty years—some of it good, some not-so-good—I find myself longing to return...
of screaming range of other humans, on top of a mountain, when it’s getting dark. So, we turned back, leaving us enough time to get back to the populated area before it got dark. We saw lots of cool stuff. We saw some birds who were so comfortable with humans that it seemed ...
This means humans and elephants are increasingly in conflict. Elephants normally graze in the forest, working hard to fuel their enormous herbivore bodies with grass, bark, roots and leaves. But when they find a field of bananas or sugar cane, they hit pay dirt. Farmers throughout Asia ...
03:48 believe that there's evil in the world neither do they believe that there's good in the world in the mind of the nihilist the world simply exists and humans created morality thereby creating good and evil let's let take the glass cup metaphor for instance optimists say you should ...
Little Albert was conditioned to fear white rats when the appearance of the white rat was always followed by a loud noise. When Little Albert saw a rabbit for the first time, he showed a similar fear response. Little Albert's fear of rabbits illustrates t ...
Topical application of nonaparticles is safe. Inhalation is another matter entirely. Studies done on rats show that, when inhaled, nanoparticles can damage animal lungs. I couldn’t find any studies on humans but, just to be on the safe side, don’t breathe this stuff in. I’m already av...