Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Not bad for a graduation speech. Doug Bates, an editorial writer at the Oregonian, gave University of Oregon J-School grads a ...

You will never look at your pet gerbil the same way again. — -- Historians have long blamed rats for spreading the plague in Europe nicknamed the "Black Death" in the 14th century, but new ...

Following is the text of Doug Bates' commencement address to the UO School of Journalism and Communication on June 13, 2009: Thank you, Dean Tim Gleason. I also want to thank the School of Journalism ...

DEAR READERS: I’m off this week. To tide all of your hot and/or kinky and/or sore asses over, here’s a column I wrote 15 years ago. Some newer readers might’ve missed this column when it originally ...

This is a gerbil column. Let’s face it: All of us at one point in our lives are reduced to writing about gerbils. It’s a rite of passage. If you think you know all there is to know about gerbils, you ...

The black rat—also known as the ship rat, the roof rat, and the house rat—is actually gray. It has large ears and a tail that’s longer than its body. The black rat (Rattus rattus) probably evolved in ...

A FEW MONTHS AGO MY SON got two male gerbils, little brown unnamed creatures who like to pile cedar shavings in the corners of their cage, chew on toilet- paper tubes and leap into the air for no ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Some people are quarantine baking. Others are quarantine fashionistas. But for one couple, being stuck ...

It's the second-to-last night of "Boot Camp," and we have nobody left to root for. All that sweat, blood and flying spit -- wasted! We knew it was too much to ask for the balloon sculptor to win. But ...

Deaf gerbils have recovered their hearing after human stem cells were injected into their ears. “It’s a proof of concept, and it’s important because for the first time we’ve shown stem cells can be ...