by Zoë Pollock
Will Wiles remembers John B. Calhoun, who created a utopia for mice, called Universe 25, in 1972:
[T]here was no scarcity of food and water in Calhoun’s universe. The only thing that was in short supply was space. This was, after all, “heaven”—a title Calhoun deliberately used with pitch-black irony. The point was that crowding itself could destroy a society before famine even got a chance. In Calhoun’s heaven, hell was other mice.
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The Dish 