Rat, that's a rat could have been you.

The cat ate the rat.

Here is a first prototype of our camera rat, which is a rat with a rat backpack with a camera that can go under rubble to detect for victims after earthquake and so on.

Is the rat alive or dead?

A cornered rat will bite a cat.

Just assorted garage sale junk, because I'm a pack rat.

Usually they eat larger snakes like rat snakes, or even cobras.

So, welcome to the Golden Desert, Indian desert.

Few of you would eat it if it's a rat or a human.

In the 1950s, Olds and Milner put electrodes into the brain of a rat.

This is the ratbot, or the robo rat by Sanjiv Talwar at SUNY Downstate.

And the rat would just keep pressing that bar thousands and thousands and thousands of times.

So how does a place cell know where the rat or person is within its environment?

Desert Research Institute

The perfect desert machine.

When you're in it, you're like a rat in a maze you can't even see over the top.

And here it is for the growth of a rat, and those points on there are data points.

So we're going to imagine we're recording from a single neuron in the hippocampus of this rat here.

The Drone in the Desert

In the desert, I think.

Well don't talk rat, but we have a clicker, a standard method for animal training, which you see there.

The only exception is the naked Somalian mole rat, which never puts its nose above the surface of the ground.

If you're a mammal, if you're a rat or an elephant, or a human, in between, it's the same story.

So, welcome to the Golden Desert.

Jaisalmer. This is heart of desert.

This was like a biological desert.

The presence of camels, mountains, desert wells and springs took me back to the year I spent wandering the Sinai Desert.

There's a number of mines placed blindly, and the team of trainer and their rat have to find all the targets.

On the left, we see a tiny piece of beating heart tissue that I engineered from rat cells in the lab.

They shoot everything, every single thing that moves that's bigger than a small rat they sun dry it or smoke it.

So what we see is that this neuron knows whenever the rat has gone into one particular place in its environment.

The reason why you have to build these telescopes in places like the Atacama Desert is because of the high altitude desert.

How does that impact our desert culture?

So, this is the message of desert.

The name means edge of the desert.

This is the Saharan desert of Titan.

They were marooned on a desert isle.

They were marooned on a desert isle.

Whereas other king cobras very often come into the human interface, you know, the plantations, to find big rat snakes and stuff.

Now I don't mean to mock, but being a fit 10 hour a day office rat isn't more balanced it's more fit.

He took 20,000 and then 60,000 disaggregated rat neurons so these are just individual neurons from rats put them on a chip.

We had a savanna, a marsh, a desert.

The Berlin Wall falls. We do Desert Storm.

They're usually students who've never seen a desert.

In the burning jungle, and the desert plain.