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The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean cover image

Death Squared

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

CHAPTER

The Parallels to Utopia 25

John Calhoun encouraged people to link the collapse of Utopia 25 to humankind. The year Calhoun started the mouse Utopia, a Stanford University biologist wrote an alarmist book called the Population Bomb. Other critics jump on Utopia 25 as proof of the dangers of loosening traditional gender rules. They claim it's an inevitable slide into effete males and hyper-aggressive females.

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