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........should I ask why the rats are being sexually gratified by car crashes?
The answer is "they weren't. The study had nothing to do with that."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432819311763
Thanks for the link but I read halfway through and then realized that what I really wanted was more images (and video) of rats driving cars.
My sister used to have one with a hamster ball in the middle that actually moved
It's kinda cruel to keep your sister in a hamster ball.
But they did get fruit loop pieces with marshmallow used to "glue" them to the dispenser, so that's pretty cute. I mean it's a lot cuter to imagine than a bunch of horned up rats.
No, you should ask how they measure it.
OOP was possibly referring to the movie Crash, or the origin novel
Definitely one of those times where I go "Oh shit, I never did get around to watching that, did I?"
Thanks for helping out the terminally unaware.
Yes.
The grant application practically writes itself.