The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
Jan 10, 2025•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
John Calhoun designed an apartment complex for mice to examine the effects of overcrowding. It was hailed as a groundbreaking study of social breakdown, but is largely forgotten. So what happened? By Lee Alan Dugatkin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
