30: Rat Utopia

11/11/2019 42 min Episodio 30
30: Rat Utopia

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Episode Synopsis

Do rats go to heaven? The answer is yes, but it’s not as nice as you might think!

Corry tells the story of John B Calhoun, a man who ran massive, years long experiments on rats and mice to really see what made them tick. Turns out rats and humans aren’t as different as we expected.

References and Further Reading

https://youtu.be/5m7X-1V9nOs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-24483-6_20
https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/mar/23/science-ballard-high-rise-animal-research-pathological-overcrowding
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1973.tb00574.x
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636191/

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