To most people, the rat is vile and villainous. But not to everyone! We hear from a scientist who befriended rats and another who worked with them in the lab — and from the animator who made one the hero of a Pixar blockbuster. (Part three of a <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/sympathy-for-the-rat/" target="_blank">three-part series</a>, “Sympathy for the Rat.”) <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://bethanybrookshire.com/">Bethany Brookshire</a>, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-pinkava-202aa82a/?originalSubdomain=de">Jan Pinkava,</a> creator and co-writer of "Ratatouille," and director of the Animation Institute at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.</li><li><a href="https://hunter.cuny.edu/people/julia-marie-zichello/">Julia Zichello,</a> evolutionary biologist at Hunter College.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li>"<a href="https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/10/05/weekend-column-rats-end-or-how-a-rat-dies">Weekend Column: Rat’s End, or, How a Rat Dies,</a>" by Julia Zichello (West Side Rag, 2024).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4hQ725I">Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains</a> by Bethany Brookshire (2022).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/nov/18/rats-the-history-of-an-incendiary-cartoon-trope">Rats: the history of an incendiary cartoon trope,</a>" by Archie Bland (The Guardian, 2015).</li><li>"<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/22/1/article-p8_2.xml">Catching the Rat: Understanding Multiple and Contradictory Human-Rat Relations as Situated Practices,</a>" by Koen Beumer (Society & Animals, 2014).</li><li>"<a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/bitstream/handle/10339/14812/brookshirebr_04_2010.pdf">Effects of Chronic Methylphenidate on Dopamine/Serotonin Interactions in the Mesolimbic DA System of the Mouse,</a>" by Bethany Brookshire (Wake Forest University, 2010).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-deal-for-mice/">A New Deal For Mice,</a>" by C.C. Little (Scientific American, 1935).</li></ul></li></ul>

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