Rats are extremely playful creatures. They love playing chase, and they literally jump for joy when tickled. Central to this playfulness, a new study finds, are cells in a specific region of rats’ brains.
Neurons in the periaqueductal gray, or PAG, are active in rats during different kinds of play, scientists report July 28 in Neuron. And blocking the activity of those neurons makes the rodents much less playful.
The results give insight into a poorly understood behavior, particularly
Paulina Porizkova has opened up about her late husband Ric Ocasek’s ‘obsession’ with her, saying he controlled her life during their marriage by telling her what to wear and do.
The supermodel, 56, shared intimate details about their relationship on the latest episode of The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet podcast, recalling how she fell in love with The Cars frontman at the height of his fame.
Porizkova was only 19 when she met Ocasek on the set of the
Late last September, on a cool night in Rosemont, Illinois, Haylie Wagner, a twenty-seven-year-old southpaw, faced Hannah Flippen, with two outs in the top of the seventh inning in the final game of the inaugural softball season of Athletes Unlimited. Wagner’s team was up 18–3, but the moment was tense: in the game’s unusual format, there were points on the line with every pitch. Minutes before, Victoria Hayward, an outfielder, had been thrown out at the plate, and—despite the blowout
