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 ...

People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...

Today's comforts multiply, yet people feel lost without purpose and responsibility.

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 ...

The focus of the experiment was “what would happen now that the subjects had everything they could ever want? Would it lead to unbridled flourishing?” It was the opposite. The experiments, run for ...