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Book Synopsis Dr. Calhoun's Mousery by : Lee Alan Dugatkin
Download or read book Dr. Calhoun's Mousery written by Lee Alan Dugatkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre and compelling biography of a scientist and his work, using rodent cities to question the potential catastrophes of human overpopulation. It was the strangest of experiments. What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, had all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predators, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces readers to the peculiar work of rodent researcher John Bumpass Calhoun. In this enthralling tale, Dugatkin shows how an ecologist-turned-psychologist-turned-futurist became a science rock star embedded in the culture of the 1960s and 1970s. As interest grew in his rodent cities, Calhoun was courted by city planners and his work was reflected in everything from Tom Wolfe’s hard-hitting writing to the children’s book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. He was invited to meetings with the Royal Society and the pope and taken seriously when he proposed a worldwide cybernetic brain—a decade before others made the internet a reality. Readers see how Calhoun’s experiments—rodent apartment complexes like “Mouse Universe 25”—led to his concept of “behavioral sinks” with real effects on public policy discussions. Overpopulation in Calhoun’s mouse (and rat) complexes led to the loss of sex drive, the absence of maternal care, and a class of automatons that included “the beautiful ones,” who spent their time grooming themselves while shunning socialization. Calhoun—and those who followed his work—saw the collapse of this mouse population as a harbinger of the ill effects of an overpopulated human world. Drawing on previously unpublished archival research and interviews with Calhoun’s family and former colleagues, Dugatkin offers a riveting account of an intriguing scientific figure. Considering Dr. Calhoun’s experiments, he explores the changing nature of scientific research and delves into what the study of animal behavior can teach us about ourselves.
Book Synopsis How Well Do Facts Travel? by : Peter Howlett
Download or read book How Well Do Facts Travel? written by Peter Howlett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.
Download or read book Detail & Pattern written by Robert Baylor and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Newsweek written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :White House Conference on Youth$ (1ere : 1971 : Estes Park, Colo.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :326 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Report by : White House Conference on Youth$ (1ere : 1971 : Estes Park, Colo.)
Download or read book Report written by White House Conference on Youth$ (1ere : 1971 : Estes Park, Colo.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis White House Conference on Youth---examination of Recommendations by : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Download or read book White House Conference on Youth---examination of Recommendations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :428 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis White House Conference on Youth--examination of Recommendations by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth
Download or read book White House Conference on Youth--examination of Recommendations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recommendations and Resolutions by : United States. White House Conference on Youth
Download or read book Recommendations and Resolutions written by United States. White House Conference on Youth and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report on the White house conference on problems of youth in the USA - includes summary of reports and recommendations of task forces on military service, drugs, the employment of young workers, education, urban area renewal and protection of the environment, international relations, human rights, poverty, racial discrimination, intergroup relations, cultural factors, etc. Conference held in Washington 1971.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1812 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1612 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (36 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mixed Bag written by and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rat City written by Jon Adams and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the internet's viral "Universe 25" experiment and Robert C. O'Brien's iconic novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Secret of NIMH, was one scientist who set out to change the way we view our fellow man — using rats . . . After the Civil War and throughout the twentieth century, cities in northern American states absorbed a huge increase in populations, particularly of immigrants and African Americans from southern states. City governments responded by creating new regulations that were often segregationist — corralling black Americans, for example, into small, increasingly overcrowded neighborhoods, or into high-rise “projects.” The situation intensified after World War II, as rising crime and racial unrest swept the nation, and blame fell on the crowded conditions of city life. The hardest-hit populations were left marginalized and voiceless. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat’s every need was met—except space. The results were cataclysmic. Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities? Rat City is the first book to tell the story of Calhoun’s experiments, and their extraordinary influence — an enthralling record of urban design and dystopian science. Meticulously researched, it follows Calhoun’s struggle to solve the problem of crowding before America’s cities drain into the behavioral sink. And as the “war on rats” continues around the world, and our post-pandemic society reevaluates the necessity of urban living, the riveting story of Rat City is more relevant than ever.
Book Synopsis Tragedy in Mouse Utopia by : J. r. Vallentyne
Download or read book Tragedy in Mouse Utopia written by J. r. Vallentyne and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indifference to behavioral needs of the young caused Mouse Utopia to self-destruct. Can Human Utopia avoid a similar fate? Yes. How? By confronting the Sorcerer. Will we? In time?
Book Synopsis Reading Power by : James Isaac Brown
Download or read book Reading Power written by James Isaac Brown and published by D.C. Heath. This book was released on 1975 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Population and Survival: Can We Win the Race? by : Jack L. Nelson
Download or read book Population and Survival: Can We Win the Race? written by Jack L. Nelson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1972 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Population and Progress by : Jack L. Nelson
Download or read book Population and Progress written by Jack L. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprinting of articles from various sources examining the world's overpopulation problem and its implications for the quality of life in the future.
Book Synopsis Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order by : Kathleen John-Alder
Download or read book Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order written by Kathleen John-Alder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light. The author explores McHarg’s formative years, and investigates how his ideas developed in both their complexity and scale. As a precursor to McHarg’s approach in his influential book Design with Nature, this book offers new interpretations into his search for environmental order and outlines how his struggle to understand humanity’s relationship to the environment in an era of rapid social and technological change reflects an ongoing challenge that landscape design has yet to fully resolve. This book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in landscape architectural history.
