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Barbara Kingsolver: ‘It feels as though we’re living through the end of the world'

We look all kinds of different ways and this is one of them Yet Kingsolver doesn’t ... public schools: I want to belong to people. I don’t want to be above them. So I would really like anyone who can ... read more

Behind the case for two new hospitals in Venice

This meant offering more public testimony about their inadequate facilities ... "We’ve made significant improvements in infection rates." As for rodent infestation, Moore said he doesn't know of a bus... read more

Bensonhurst-born Dr. Rico Simonini doesn't just play a doctor on TV

Around the same time, my mother got me a book called 'Your Heart and How it Works,' and that book plus sneak peeks at the anatomical encyclopedias in the Brooklyn Public Library turned ... in physiolo... read more

Falconry As Art? Birds To 'Perform' At Wilco Fest

In the wild Harris's hawks hunt rabbits, snakes, mice, rats, squirrels and the occasional pheasant or ... I find it curious that Davis doesn’t name his birds, but again, they aren’t pets. When they’re ... read more

How is your lifestyle affecting your brain?

“The most compelling explanation for the restorative effects of sleep comes from rodent studies that find that the brain sort of washes itself while we sleep,” says Chris, describing a study in rats s... read more

311 calls ignored

The ignored calls represent less than 1 percent of the more than 1.1 million 311 calls received in the past seven years ... Tilton said he could not answer why the call center doesn't have the ability ... read more

Expert's guide to the Hagerman reach: part 3

But the primitive take-out on the WMA’s north end means you’ll either paddle back upstream or face a steep set of stairs at the take-out, which doesn’t have a dock ... small mammals — deer mice, water ... read more

Hero rats sniff (and snuff) out landmines and TB

(CNN)-- Traditionally, you wouldn't gift someone a rat -- not someone you like, anyway. And even if a gift-wrapped rodent was in the cards ... their land -- puts their life at peril. There doesn't eve... read more

Pizza Rat Has Apparently Started a Cheesy Rodent War in New York

We were wrong. Pizza rat was only the beginning. An Instagram video posted on Thursday by Jonathan Liu shows that our Italian-craving rodent friend was not an anomaly, but the Franz Ferdinand of a cit... read more

Rats Dream About the Places They Want to Explore

Rats, like humans, have dreams about the future. When they see a treat they can’t reach, rats’ later dreams depict them walking toward it, researchers have found. The discovery may one day provide som... read more

Butte officials want to change ordinance prohibiting sale of mice, rats

BUTTE – Officials in Butte-Silver Bow County are working to change a previously unenforced ordinance that prohibits the sale of live mice and rats and is now threatening ... Dawson said even with an e... read more

In a Battle It Cannot Win, New York City Will Spend $32 Million to Fight Rats

It’s all part of the city’s new $32 million plan to destroy — er, reduce by 70 percent — the critter population in three rodent ... keep the rats at bay. To hear de Blasio tell it, no rat, except for ... read more