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 ...

While the name of John Bumpass Calhoun might not be familiar to everyone these days, he and his life’s work — studying rats and mice — were grounded here in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins University ...

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Just about every student of animal behavior has studied the work of Dr. John Calhoun, famously or infamously known for his rodent apartment complexes like “Mouse Universe 25,” which led to his concept ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: As InvestorPlace Digest writer Jeff Remsburg details in a recent piece, renowned behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun conducted a series of experiments that, by creating a “utopia” for ...