Tag: rats

This is neat. The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia houses about 70 cats at any given time because of an ancient tradition of keeping them on hand to ward off mice and other rodents. The cats have become symbols of strength and good luck on the museum grounds and are often considered workers themselves, [...]

Something about the lighting in this video and the accent of the man makes me want to think this is a prank, but Popular Science assures me that it’s not. Scientists at EPFL have found a way to awaken the spinal cord after a serious injury and get it to re-learn motor movements by rerouting [...]

Check out this video from January of this year of graffiti artist ROA painting a huge rat mural on a wall in Mexico. Thanks Danger!

Graffiti artist ROA who you might know from having his work featured in NYC’s Underbelly Project, is seen in this video painting his iconic rats and half-creatures on walls around San Francisco. It still amazes me to some extent that he paints all the hairlines individually. I guess there isn’t really any other way to [...]

Graffiti artist ROA goes into an abandoned hospital in France and paints a few giant rats and birds on the walls. You may recall some of these rats from the Underbelly Project in NYC. The final pieces are works of art in and of themselves, but it certainly is a treat to see them go [...]