30: Rat Utopia
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🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | So, I'm gonna start with an email, surprisingly, this week. |
| 0:03.0 | Wow. |
| 0:04.0 | I actually haven't had it in a while. |
| 0:05.0 | So, this one's from Anna. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey Anna. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Corey. Luke and James. My name is Corey. I just want to say, yeah. Corey. C-O-R-E-Y. Oh. Like the American Football Man name. It just sounds like the kind of name that like an American football player at high school would have. |
| 0:21.1 | Hey, I'm Corey. |
| 0:22.3 | Not after high school. |
| 0:23.3 | As soon as they leave high school, they change their name. Hey, Corey, look and James, I just wanted to say thank you for entertaining me while I'm in hospital recovering from blood poisoning. Oh, wow. Oh, lovely. We should do an episode on blood poisoning just for her. I was thinking about that. |
| 0:38.3 | What? |
| 0:39.3 | Would we really want to bring that back up? Yeah. Let's just remind Anna. Just as she's checked out. She looks down at her phone and says, Sorry guys, I've pledged the new episode. That would be so cruel. Imagine being in hospital suffering from blood poisoning. on this podcast to distract me from all my troubles. |
| 0:54.1 | Oh, a new episode, blood poisoning. |
| 0:56.5 | I should have read ahead, I found this podcast to distract me from all my troubles. Oh, a new episode, blood poisoning. |
| 0:56.0 | I should have read ahead. |
| 0:57.0 | Anna then goes on to say, it might be a fun and potentially life-saving episode of the podcast. Oh. Oh, so yeah. Well then, don't make fun of it quite as much as you did, guys. Okay. podcast I can listen to right now and I don't feel guilty about wasting my time with it. |
| 1:11.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:13.0 | Thank you for wasting my time with it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for wasting your time with us. |
| 1:16.4 | Well, Anna, I hope you get better soon. I'm looking forward to what episode themes you |
| 1:21.0 | can come up with in future, Anna. And she sent it from her Android phone. Is that relevant? |
| 1:26.6 | No, it just says, just says she sent it from an Android. Is Is that relevant? No, it just says, she sent it from an Android. |
| 1:28.3 | Is that our first Android? |
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