In addition to demonstrating that a mousetrap is not irreducibly complex, I also illustrate the most ... If an unlucky mouse steps on the trap and dislodges the ends, the trap closes. Most mice knock ...

If you’re dealing with a pest problem—namely, a mouse or two—the common solution is to set up some traditional mouse traps ...

The old adage that you’ll make a fortune by developing a better mouse trap is not super realistic, as the engineers behind Sony’s Betamax video tape standard could tell you. However ...

manufactured the “Victor Choker Mouse Trap” with four trap mechanisms around 1925. Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI It is among the most successful inventions of all time, judged by longevity ...

Some of the oldest known mousetraps were catalogued in the late sixteenth century, by Leonard Mascall, the clerk of the kitchen to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mascall published a series of books ...

the simple little mousetrap has no ability to trap a mouse until several separate parts are all assembled. Because the mousetrap is necessarily composed of several parts, it is irreducibly complex." ...