A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities — rodentopias — to identify and examine the potential catastrophes that might befall human ...

S tanding before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on June 22, 1972, the ecologist-turned-psychologist John Bumpass Calhoun, director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the ...

Dr. Calhoun's Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin University of Chicago Press, 2024 ($27.50) If you're enjoying this ...

In the 1960s, behavioral researcher John Calhoun created what he hoped would be a kind of paradise—at least for rodents. His experiment, now known as Mouse Utopia, offered everything a mouse could ...