The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
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The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
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#2. o O (Buzzfeed version of "The Secret of NIMH" - learn about this one new battery Energizer and Duracell don't want you to know!)
And more seriously, it's sad that people weren't interested in his attempts to fix it... which sound interesting even if they didn't work either.
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#3> But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, "everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure."
Was there a "cure"? The article speaks of the fashion in which his later efforts attempted to alleviate the catastrophic social problems he'd observed in his earlier utopian designs. It is craftily silent on the subject of those efforts' results.
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#4> But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, "everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure." Was there a "cure"? The article speaks of the fashion in which his later efforts attempted to alleviate the catastrophic social problems he'd observed in his earlier utopian designs. It is craftily silent on the subject of those efforts' results.
I took that as a veiled reference to population control, perhaps I'm reading into it, though.
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#5Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.
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#6This just in: living things struggle to survive in niches they never evolved to fill. What a shock! Who coulda thought?!? News at eleven!!!111eleven
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#7Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.
Rats and mice don't really do much except eating, breeding, hunting and socialising.
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#8was just thinking about how much I despise the movie based on this book.
Possibly the best piece of children’s literature that is explicitly about evolution, neuroscience and society, and they turn it into a woo-woo adventure about a MAGIC AMULET
ugh. Read the book. Buy your kids the book. Terrific book.
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#9Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.
Rats and mice don't really do much except eating, breeding, hunting and socialising.
Interesting point but In its natural environment they do so much more. Search for the food, avoid weather, avoid predators etc. I think perhaps when those stresses are taken away it goes counter to their instincts and "wiring" causing problems.
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#10> But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, "everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure." Was there a "cure"? The article speaks of the fashion in which his later efforts attempted to alleviate the catastrophic social problems he'd observed in his earlier utopian designs. It is craftily silent on the subject of those efforts' results.
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