A Literal Mickey Mouse In The Making? Researchers Create Mice That Sing
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 13:30
in Mathematics & Economics
In the 1989 holiday classic "Scrooged", the chairman of the television network predicts that because there were so many pets in America they would become steady viewers in 20 years - which would be 2009. So he asks network executive Bill Murray to introduce Door Mice instead of Door Men in their live Christmas Eve version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", in order to get a head start on appealing to television-watching pets. Far fetched? Perhaps, though singing mice are sure to get everyone's attention. read more