Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikimedia Commons People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them.

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

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 ...

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 ...