It was the late 1960s and early 70s when behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment called Universe 25, where he created a utopian environment for mice, some think serves as a ...

Not that they can help it, but there’s something essentially ridiculous about mice. When an ancient parodist wanted to puncture Homer’s solemnity, he turned the Iliad into “The Battle of Frogs and ...

People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...

In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun. By Ian Volner Ian Volner writes about architecture, design and ...

Harsh Goenka discussed Calhoun's 'Mouse Paradise' experiment, illustrating how overpopulation resulted in violence and ...

Rats are as bad as human beings in some ways. In the latest Journal of Wildlife Management, Dr. John B. Calhoun, of Johns Hopkins, discusses one such aspect of the rat world: the troubles which ...

One was Stanley Milgram’s work on authority and obedience, better known as the shock experiments. The other, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University, went down in history as the Stanford ...

What would happen if we human animals were given lifelong shelter, food and comfort or our entire lives without concern for work, the normal challenges of life, or any physical needs? What would be ...