Rats and Mice
Rats Inglorious Basterds – The Rat The first thing I thought of when reading about human attitudes towards rats was the above scene from Inglorious...
View ArticleOf Mice and Men: Discussion Topics
Here are some topics for discussion on Tuesday, If there are any other topics you want to talk about, feel free to comment and I’ll add them. Burt Reading Rat/Human mirroring Adaptability and spread...
View ArticleRats: The Shadow of the Collective Human Psyche
I am a big fan of Burt’s conceptual approach to the rat. While on occasion he appears overly wordy and attempts to put an overly abstract spin on rats and their relationship to humans, overall he shoes...
View ArticleRats of NIHM: How rats and mice have shaped the Sciences
Laboratory rats and mice are arguably one of the few deliberately domesticated species bred solely for one purpose, and in a methodical way to arrive at a predetermined goal. White mice were inbred to...
View ArticleRatting Around
As a general rule, I don’t like rats. With a few exceptions, most people I know are of the same opinion. I appreciate what they’ve done for science, and they can be cute sometimes, but like most of...
View ArticleRats: Another animal taking the blame
I was most interested in the portion of Burt which discussed the parallel universe of rats and humans. It seems to me that this concept fits well into many themes common to domestication, which is that...
View ArticleRats
When I think of rats I mainly think of the gross rodents carrying the Bubonic plague. I never really connected how rats domestication and alterations over time paralleled with urbanization and human...
View ArticleFrom Rat King to Lab Rat, and everything in between
Whenever I think of rats, I can’t help by picture the evil rat threatening the baby on Lady and the Tramp, or even the Rat King in The Nutcracker, but very seldom do I spend time pondering over the lab...
View ArticleAnthopomorphism and De-humanization
It seems that rats really made us think this week. As Megan says, go team rat! I’m looking forward to a good careful discussion today of the paradox that many of you noted in your posts – namely that...
View ArticleFinal Feast and Course Awards
Carrying on the tradition established by last year’s cohort, Deep History and Domestication finished the semester with domesticate inspired food and course awards. We had quite a feast! From...
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