Sentences with phrase «surrounded by rats»
With the opening of his exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the artist discusses the realities of making art surrounded by rats, sunshine and Henry Moore.
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When one is surrounded by people who blindly subscribe to the rat - race, it can make one feel like an outsider.
Garlits arrived early at the New Jersey drag strip, began tinkering with the latest of his creations, which he calls The Swamp Rat, and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of the curious.
«We were surrounded by cockroaches and rats — the four - legged and two - legged kind.»
For example, rats get a sense of their surrounding environment by brushing their whiskers against surfaces.
Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.
Researchers placed a small harness around rats and put them on a treadmill surrounded by a «virtual world» on large video screens — a virtual environment they describe as even more immersive than IMAX — in an otherwise dark, quiet room.
One virtual - reality experiment they are planning will record from electrodes in rats running on a stationary ball surrounded by screens showing changing environments.
Every beginner probably experiences a feeling of inadequacy when surrounded by super fit gym rats with great bodies who seem to own the floor.
A scene in a crypt involving a disinterred child and a pocket watch is appropriately discomfiting, as are visions of another wrapped in tape and surrounded by curious rats.
You'll get stuck crouching in a dirty back bedroom surrounded by dead Asian beetles and rat traps because it's the only spot in the house with enough cell reception to allow you to text with the negotiator.»
A California Native, Tiffani Collins grew up in the Sierra Mountains surrounded by dogs, cats, rats, alligator lizards, iguanas, parakeets, horny toads, horses, goats, king snakes, ferrets, chickens, fish, ponies, and hamsters — is it any wonder she went on to be a Veterinary Technician or to write about talking animal people?
Just a few minutes» drive down the South Eastern Freeway and you're away from the rat race and surrounded by manicured vineyards and market gardens, natural Australian bushland and lush green pastures.