Why Rats Heart New York
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"Rodents thrive in a Manhattan-style street-grid system, but tend to become disoriented in the more winding, random layouts of cities such as New Orleans and Jerusalem, according to new research at the University of Tel Aviv." We thought it was because there are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese. [NYP]

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