Neuroscience to the Rescue!

Faced with ever darker and more dystopian news from home (I am writing this from Japan), along comes something to the rescue from my field of social science. No, I am not talking about using cognitive therapy to stay rational amid post-election hysteria, but about this item on ticklish rats in the journal Science. The video alone is worth the click.One can always depend on fields like comparative psychology to entertain with the occasional off-beat piece of research. My personal favorite is still "Does the headless roach learn to avoid," in a 1976 issue of Physiological Psychology. Maybe its sequel, "What does the headless roach remember?" comes close.These days, the rats are looking better and better.