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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1526
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Is This What Is Happening To Humanity?
In 1968, an expert on animal behaviour and population control called John B. Calhoun built what was essentially a utopia for mice that was purpose built to satisfy their every need. Despite going out of his way to ensure the inhabitants of his perfect mouse society never wanted for anything, within 2 years virtually the entire population was dead. So what happened?
Dubbed “Universe 25”, Calhoun’s mouse utopia was built with the needs of its mouse inhabitants firmly in mind and was designed specifically to cater to their every whim. Containing plentiful food, water, bedding and, at least initially, space, the enclosure was described as follows:
A tank, 101 inches square, enclosed by walls 54 inches high. The first 37 inches of wall was structured so the mice could climb up, but they were prevented from escaping by 17 inches of bare wall above. Each wall had sixteen vertical mesh tunnels—call them stairwells—soldered to it. Four horizontal corridors opened off each stairwell, each leading to four nesting boxes. That means 256 boxes in total, each capable of housing fifteen mice.Well versed in rodent populations from dozens of previous experiments (something that’s kind of apparent when you realise the enclosure was called Universe 25) Calhoun anticipated that his mouse paradise could reliably and more importantly, comfortably house 3840 mice. Before that though, he needed to pick the proverbial Adam and Eve of his mouse Garden of Eden. Calhoun eventually settled on four breeding pairs of mice specially bred for the experiment and hand-picked from the most healthy specimens from the National Institute of Health’s own breeding colony.
Before discussing what happened next we should give some background information about how this experiment came to be and what it was hoping to accomplish. Prior to creating Universe 25, Calhoun had performed a number of similar experiments with rodents starting way back in the 1940’s, all of which ended in failure when the population either stalled or turned on itself.
For example, in one experiment Calhoun created an enclosure that could have easily housed 5000 rats but the eventual population never rose above 200 despite unlimited food, water and a complete absence of predators or threats. Furthermore Calhoun noticed that, again despite ample space his rodents would often crowd together, which resulted in a breakdown of social structure amongst the population. This unusual phenomenon led Calhoun to coin the phrase “Behavioural Sink” to describe what he felt was the inevitable collapse of any overpopulated society.
Calhoun’s experiments eventually caught the eye of the National Institute of Mental Health or NIMH who were intrigued about the observed effects of overpopulation in rodents, specifically if any of the observed phenomenon could be applied to humans. To this end, NIMH gave Calhoun access to a small piece of land they owned in Maryland and the funding needed to construct Universe 25. The stated goal of the experiment was simply to see whether a “perfect” society would flourish.
Initially the experiment proved successful and the mice lived in relative harmony and within a year, the population of eight super-healthy mice swelled to a respectable 620 members.
Great care was taken to ensure the mice were taken care of, food and water was unlimited allowing mice to eat or drink whenever they pleased and there was always space and clean bedding available so females could rear young in peace and safety.
Despite this, Calhoun noticed that after day 315 of the experiment, things started to go wrong. First of all there was a noticeable drop in population growth. While initially the population of mouse heaven had doubled every 55 days, after day 315 it doubled, according to Calhoun’s notes, approximately every 145 days. This made little sense as there was still at this time ample space to house an additional 3000 mice.
In addition to a drop in population growth, Calhoun also noticed an abrupt change in behaviour in both males and females. Social bonds effectively broke down and male mice, without a reason to defend their territory or food source (since both were plentiful) became dejected, forming cliques that randomly attacked one another for seemingly no reason. Females similarly began abandoning young or even attacking them and slowly but surely, both males and females simply stopped breeding.
In the lead up to this, certain of the male mice began continually mating with whatever mouse happened to be around, be it male or female. Many of the mice also began to simply kill and eat one another, despite the abundance of other food sources; mothers abandoned babies, mice would crowd together in groups of 50 or more in pens designed to hold 15 individuals, while pens with plentiful bedding sat empty inches away.
Most intriguing of all were a small group of males and females who withdrew themselves from mouse society altogether to live in the upper levels of the enclosure that Calhoun dubbed, “The Beautiful Ones”.
These mice did nothing but sleep, eat and groom themselves (this gave them noticeably smoother looking coats which, along with their isolation meaning no scars from attacks, led to their nickname). They seemingly lost interest in all meaningful social bonds, refusing to interact or mate.
The last birth in Universe 25 took place on day 600 and from this moment, the population slowly dwindled. Even when the population receded to levels where the mice had previously flourished, they refused to breed or go back to their old way of interacting.
A few months later, all of the mice were dead. Calhoun noted that although the population had survived for many months afterwards, it had effectively died on the 315th day- the day social bonds broke down, stating: “Their spirit has died (‘the first death’). They are no longer capable of executing the more complex behaviours compatible with species survival. The species in such settings die.”
Calhoun saw his experiments as a warning bell for humanity, with his belief being that overpopulation would inevitably lead to social collapse and thus, the extinction of the human race. Others have taken less nihilistic views of his work and believe that his results aren’t comparable to what would happen in human society as, after all, we’re slightly more complex and self aware creatures than mice.
My Government Owes So Off To Work I Go...
Democrats Refuse Blame for Joe Biden’s Stalled Agenda While Terry McAuliffe Falters
Congressional Democrats are refusing to accept blame for President Joe Biden’s stalled agenda while Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has stumbled to the finish line ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Democrats are worried McAuliffe may lose Virginia’s gubernatorial race in a state Biden won by ten points in 2020. The possible negative results for Democrats has the far-left and more temperate members of the party resorting to slippery rhetoric to dodge being seen as “obstructionists.”
“Clearly, showing that we can make progress would have been nice,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) complained to Politico about Biden’s stalled legislative push.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) also agreed with his fellow commonwealth senator. “I wish they would have, and I’m just being really selfish,” Kaine said. “It would have been helpful in Virginia to have these bills done in mid-October instead of mid-November.”
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) blamed the far-left for not passing any legislation that could have helped McAuliffe. “We haven’t gotten anything done. That says enough about their strategy,” he stated about the radical left.
Tester also admitted Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) Monday press conference, where he attacked the far-left for holding “hostage” the $1.2 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure bill in the House, was a blunder. “I think Joe made a mistake,” Tester said.
“Moderate” Democrats blaming the far-left for bungling Biden’s agenda as Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin continued his rise in the polls was not accepted by Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
“I’ve watched all the attack ads on Terry McAuliffe and not a single one has talked about the [infrastructure bill] not passing. They’ve all been about other things,” Jayapal told reporters, acknowledging the Virginia race was more about state issues than...
Kaepernick sacked after comparing NFL combine to slave trade in new Netflix documentary: ‘Shameless con artist’
In a new Netflix special, the surly malcontent who became a celebrated figure to the “woke” media for his disrespectful decision to take a knee during the national anthem disgracefully trivializes the suffering of generations of blacks who were horrifically subjugated with his ridiculous comparison.
According to the former NFLer who got rich during his own career and then parlayed his martyrdom after walking away from the 49ers into even more wealth as a pitchman for Nike, the combine is akin to the darkest aspects of slavery, despite the fact that the college players who willingly show up to try out for teams are a diverse mix of aspiring players. But Kaepernick and his handlers aren’t about to let the truth spoil their narrative.
In a segment from the series “Colin in Black & White” that draws heavily on special effects, Kaepernick delivers his message as narrator while the actors portraying players morph into chained captives at an actual slave auction, an assertion so over the top that it borders on parody.
Jab Zealot Mother Learns The Truth About The Jab And Social Media Censorship...
Anyone Know Any Good Rock Songs About Myocarditis???
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