We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans.

FORBES: Data Of Reckoning

Life itself is the most telling social science experiment of them all and we are its most thoroughly tested lab rats.

FORBES: Turning Gender-War-Swords into Ploughshares

We actually have pretty good census data for the average numbers of rats on each of those farms where rats are present.

BBC: Are you never more than 6ft away from a rat?