You want to be a swimming rat rather than a dry rat drowning in a sinking ship.
The result: a rat task-force, a rat tsar, a rat hotline (500 calls already) and fiendish talk of limiting the rodent population by distributing contraceptives (presumably of the oral sort).
There was also a feedback system, denying the encoder rat an extra reward if the decoder rat did not press the correct lever.
Once this rat pressed the correct lever, its brain activity was delivered as electrical stimulation into the brain of the second rat - designated the "decoder".
Leading "Team Rat" is Anthony Martin, a 58-year-old white-bearded zoologist, whom some have called "the Pied Piper" for his role in the rat cull.
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Mr Sullivan cleverly uses the rat as a way of burrowing into New York's hidden history and forgotten men, such as Kit Burns, a rat-pit impresario, who ran the city's most popular entertainment in the mid-1800s until cornered by crusading animal-rights activists.
Electrodes attached to the brain of a host "encoder" rat in Brazil processed the motor-oriented mental activity for a desired behavior, such as pressing a lever on cue, and converted it into a signal that was then received by a "decoder" rat as far away as Duke's US campus.
At the preserve pond, my occasional swim was observed by a slick, slime-covered rat-tailed muskrat.
Henke found out, much to his delight, that Springsteen is something of a pack rat.
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The outbreak in "Medicine Rat, " as some local media quickly dubbed it, triggered a full-scale offensive.
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More than 20 reporters showed up to witness Officer Kabeya holding up the bagged rat.
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His first effort with IBM will be to simulate a single rat neurocortical column.
The team set the cyber-rat loose on two different groups of the furry subjects.
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Brodeur, one of the top goaltenders of his generation, is also a memorabilia pack rat.
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Heart attacks were induced in both castrated and noncastrated rat groups before treatments started.
Operations at a Nottinghamshire hospital were cancelled after a rat was found in an operating theatre.
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This year marks the return of the rat, normally an unpopular sign as well.
Trying to manage Jeep and Hummer at the same time would be a marketing rat's nest.
Protective effect of Toki-shakuyaku-san on amyloid beta25-35-induced neuronal damage in cultured rat cortical neurons.
It was filed nearly a year before the Orange County Tax Rat coughed up his documents.
"I've seen it all, all that rat-race stuff, the arms-race stuff, " said Mr. Nye.
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We know that if you deprive a rat of sleep, the rats begin to eat more.
Krebs goatee--he would stand by his car and explain its virtues while hawking Rat Fink wares.
The majority of the time, the decoder rat performed the same action as the encoder.
"It's rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals, " he told Reuters.
Rat catcher Jeff Sullivan said he had seen an increase of 25 per cent in call-outs.
Many women, particularly mothers, are happy to stay out of the corporate rat race.
They overlaid muscle cells, obtained from a rat heart, on this membrane in a particular pattern.
Republicans focus on incentives: Double the cheddar, and the rat will navigate his turns more quickly.
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