[brooksby]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812

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Learning to drive small cars helps rats feel less stressed, scientists found.

Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars, in exchange for bits of cereal.

Study lead Dr Kelly Lambert said the rats felt more relaxed during the task, a finding that could help with the development of non-pharmaceutical treatments for mental illness.

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Well, okay then… 

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[brooksby]

CyclingInBeastMode wrote:

All this compares is a human driving on a race track with no boundaries or obstructions whatsoever, of course it’s less stressful than ordinary life, typical nonsensical irrelevant ‘research’ that too often gets funded by taxpayers or used against the vulnerable as well as helping big corps to profit further stealing even more money/freedoms from general society.

I think you may be taking this thread a bit too seriously… 

[Anonymous]

All this compares is a human

All this compares is a human driving on a race track with no boundaries or obstructions whatsoever, of course it’s less stressful than ordinary life, typical nonsensical irrelevant ‘research’ that too often gets funded by taxpayers or used against the vulnerable as well as helping big corps to profit further stealing even more money/freedoms from general society.

[Bmblbzzz]

I was going to like the first

I was going to like the first post in this thread. Then I read the second and realised I’d have to like that too. And the third. And…. So I’m just going to “like” the whole thread! 

[FluffyKittenofTindalos]

Gotta be a contender for the
Gotta be a contender for the Ignobel prize!

[leqin]

I thought we already had

I thought we already had enough rats in cars

[Sriracha]

It would lower my stress
It would lower my stress levels if they taught humans to drive vehicles.

[Anonymous]

ktache wrote:

The real stress comes when they ditch the tiny car, get into massive debt and lease a beheamoth of an Urban Tank, with terrible fuel efficiency, find difficulty parking anywhere and get stuck in huge tailbacks of congestion with many others like them.

tailbacks – very good!

Poop! Poop!

 

[hawkinspeter]

Rats in cars?

Rats in cars?

Whatever next?

 

[PRSboy]

ktache wrote:

The real stress comes when they ditch the tiny car, get into massive debt and lease a beheamoth of an Urban Tank, with terrible fuel efficiency, find difficulty parking anywhere and get stuck in huge tailbacks of congestion with many others like them.

…and then the real trouble will start when they get stuck behind other rats on tiny bicycles riding two abreast running red lights without hi viz etc.

[ktache]

The real stress comes when

The real stress comes when they ditch the tiny car, get into massive debt and lease a beheamoth of an Urban Tank, with terrible fuel efficiency, find difficulty parking anywhere and get stuck in huge tailbacks of congestion with many others like them.

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