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Final Feast and Course Awards May 14, 2014
Anthopomorphism and De-humanization April 29, 2014
From Rat King to Lab Rat, and everything in between April 27, 2014
Rats April 27, 2014
Rats: Another animal taking the blame April 27, 2014
Ratting Around April 26, 2014
Rats of NIHM: How rats and mice have shaped the Sciences April 26, 2014
Rats: The Shadow of the Collective Human Psyche April 26, 2014
Of Mice and Men: Discussion Topics April 26, 2014

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Comment on Rats and Mice by A. Nelson April 29, 2014
More points (and maybe some vindication?) for team rat: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/29/black-death-not-spread-rat-fleas-london-plague
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Comment on Rats by tanneraustin April 29, 2014
That's a very good point about most of us not seeing rats in the context we associate them. But, then again, most of us have never been in space to see that the continents are arranged the way we see them on a map, either.
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Comment on Rats of NIHM: How rats and mice have shaped the Sciences by kcdrews April 29, 2014
Interesting comparison you're making between sacrificing for science and sacrificing for religion. I think there's several key differences but bottom line you're right about the sacrifices being made to lead to good fortune.
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Comment on Ratting Around by kcdrews April 29, 2014
I think that you don’t necessarily need to cast rats in a negative light in order to use them as research animals. Rats don’t have to be demonized, they just have to be used. For that I agree we have to sacrifice any potential rights they may have. When it comes to the difference with […]
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Comment on Ratting Around by kcdrews April 29, 2014
I think that you don't necessarily need to cast rats in a negative light in order to use them as research animals. Rats don't have to be demonized, they just have to be used. For that I agree we have to sacrifice any potential rights they may have. When it comes to the difference with […]
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Comment on From Rat King to Lab Rat, and everything in between by kcdrews April 29, 2014
This isn't really contributing much to the discussion but reading your opening lines I immediately flashed back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Kid Catcher. I always thought he looked like a Rat/Mouse. Gave me nightmares for months...
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Comment on Rats and Mice by mollyo92 April 29, 2014
I'm glad I read your post, and I also agree that you pose some excellent questions. I didn't consider the similarities of humans and rats as clearly until I read your thoughts, and it's certainly true. I think I spent too much time making broad generalizations to realize that rats do wreck havoc on their […]
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Comment on Rats by mollyo92 April 29, 2014
I definitely find your associations with rats interesting. I agree that rats have a certain picture in my mind, but isn't it interesting that many of us have this image without ever having seen a real rat?? I'm not sure that I've ever seen, as you mention, a rat running into a sewer, other than […]
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Comment on Ratting Around by loomispw April 29, 2014
I like this argument, and I made it in a different way in a different comment, however, mice share a lot of the same qualities of rats we dislike, and we don't hate them the same way we hate rats. I think how we view animals does make a huge difference and mice are loved […]
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Comment on From Rat King to Lab Rat, and everything in between by loomispw April 29, 2014
I think one of the reasons we dislike rats is because of how much they resemble us. They fall into a type of uncanny valley. One of the interesting parallels is that as rats are forced to live in closer quarters their behavior changes, resulting in g...
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