114 - The Mouse Universe Experiments

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12/27/17 • 98 min

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In the 50s, 60s and 70s ethologist John B. Calhoun studied the behaviour of rodents in his custom built rat and mice utopias... the results were influential, controversial, fascinating AND a bit fucked! Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/ Email us: [email protected] Sources/Further Reading: Fredrik Knudsen's great doco called Down the Rabbit Hole - The Mouse Utopia Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o&feature=youtu.be Copy of John B. Calhoun's 'Population density and social pathology' article in Scientific American: http://www.culture-clash.net/pages/evolution/evol_articles/e5calhoun.html http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradise-into-a-terrifyin-1687584457?IR=T https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/mar/23/science-ballard-high-rise-animal-research-pathological-overcrowding

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113 - Explorer, David Livingstone

David Livngstone you presume? Correct! One of the most famous people of the Victorian era, David Livingstone was a terrible missionary... But lucky for him he was a fantastic explorer. Travelling to Africa for three seperate epic adventures, he went to an incredible amount of places no other European person had ever been before him. He is also perhaps best remembered for his advocacy against slavery.

Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/ Email us: [email protected]SOURCES/FURTHER READING ON LIVINGSTONE:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Livingstone

https://www.biography.com/people/david-livingstone-9383955

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

http://zambezitraveller.com/livingstone/history/david-livingstone%E2%80%99s-early-missionary-years-and-first-expedition

Livingstone, David, Missionary Travels and Researches In South Africa (1858)

http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/david-livingstone-reaches-victoria-falls

http://www.tothevictoriafalls.com/vfpages/discovery/second.html

The Daring Heart of David Livingstone: Exile, African Slavery, and the Publicity Stunt That Saved Millions - Jay Milbrandt (2014)

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Doctor+Livingstone%2C+I+presume%3F

https://www.nts.org.uk/Learn/adult_hidden_livingstone.php

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115 - The BTK Killer

This week, the patreon has voted for Jess' topic for the first time, and they chose very wisely! We look at a serial killer who evaded police for more than 25 years!

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References and other reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yMSgPYF2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuRn0DKmeyA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

https://www.biography.com/people/dennis-rader-241487

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