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The rat race. I’ve heard the phrase a hundred times, but never understood how it came to mean our tiresome work life. Turns out it is an analogy to lab rats racing through a maze, expending great ...

UCLA scientists observed the activity of large numbers of neurons in the brains of rats while the animals navigated a virtual reality maze. [Mehta Lab/UCLA] It has been long understood that the area ...