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☆ A rat exterminator who's helped successfully eliminate nearly 100% of rats in a section of NYC says people clap, cheer, and offer him free beer when he comes around
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
New York City has millions of rats. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementThere are millions of rats in New York City. Matt Deodato, the owner of Urban Pest Management, told Insider he's killed thousands of rats with the method. A rat climbs into a box with food in it on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City.
Persons: Matt Deodato, —, he's, Deodato, He's, chewers, New York City Bethany Brookshire, Val Curtis, Michael Parsons, Mongabay, Parsons, Gary Hershorn Organizations: Service, Urban Pest Management, London School of Hygiene, Tropical Medicine, Geographic, Herald, Smithsonian Locations: York City, New York City, New York
☆ Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear, Study Suggests
  + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Bethany Brookshire | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
What is it that we hear when we hear nothing at all? Or are we just hearing nothing and interpreting that absence as silence? The “Sound of Silence” is a philosophical question that made for one of Simon & Garfunkel’s most enduring songs, but it’s also a subject that can be tested by psychologists. In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a series of sonic illusions to show that people perceive silences much as they hear sounds. While the study offers no insight into how our brains might be processing silence, the results suggest that people perceive silence as its own type of “sound,” not just as a gap between noises.
Persons: Simon, it’s, ”, Rui Zhe Goh Organizations: National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
☆ How We Turned Pigeons Into Pests
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Bethany Brookshire | Photographs Lucia Buricelli | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Today city-dwellers tend to think of pigeons as “rats with wings”—pests that are good for nothing but tarnishing buildings and spreading disease. In fact, the pigeons strutting the streets today are descendants of birds that were raised in dovecotes by human beings who found them very useful. The reason why feral pigeons thrive in cities today is that we bred them for skills that serve them well in an urban environment. Wild pigeons love nesting in cliff faces, leaving home daily to forage on grains and seeds and returning home at night. Even before humans started domesticating the birds on purpose, they were probably following farming settlements, says Will Smith, a zoologist at the University of Oxford who studies feral pigeons.
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