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Caveat: Doctor Rat is not for the squeamish. It contains extensive and visceral scenes of animal experimentation. More disturbing, the character of Doctor Rat revels in the despair and brutality of it all, composing songs in honor of gruesome experiments, egging the scientists on to greater horrors, and reveling in the destruction of his own species. Breath was published by Riverhead Books on May 26, 2020. [5] Nestor promoted the book with appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience [6] and CBS This Morning. [7] In the case of natives of Western Canada, other historical information makes it perfectly clear that a simple genetic vulnerability to alcohol was not the cause of the devastating plague of alcoholism that occurred. There are several different types of evidence: The man who played mouse-God and came up with this doomed universe was named John Bumpass Calhoun. As Edmund Ramsden and Jon Adams detail in a paper, “ Escaping the Laboratory: The Rodent Experiments of John B. Calhoun & Their Cultural Influence,” Calhoun spent his childhood traipsing around Tennessee, chasing toads, collecting turtles, and banding birds. These adventures eventually led him to a doctorate in biology, and then a job in Baltimore, where he was tasked with studying the habits of Norway rats, one of the city’s chief pests. Calhoun inside Universe 25, his biggest, baddest mouse utopia. Yoichi R. Okamoto/Public Domain

Hopefully my review suggested that the novel is successful separate from its more polemical aims (which I’m not sure are entirely convincing — I’ll go into it you want me to). The reason I didn’t explore that angle further in the review was fear that it would overshadow the well-crafted and manic intensity of the reading experience. And all his other brilliant touches…

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I would have thought that breathing was pretty simple and well understood. Then I read this book. Now I know it's a hugely complex and wondrous process which we need to understand much better. Fascinating and provocative stuff' - Daniel M. Davis, author of The Beautiful Cure

The point of all these works is that humans are not "special" or chosen to be the culmination of either Creation or blind evolution. Just ask any evolutionary biologist and they'll [sic] tell you just what a Rube Goldberg contraption is the human body. Considering the damage our species is inflicting on this planet and nearly every species we share it with, consciousness/intelligence does not appear to be a particularly successful survival strategy. We seem to be just intelligent enough to see the precipice but not intelligent enough to stop from going over it -- the tragedy of Stapledon's First Men, who could glimpse the "ultimate" (nirvana, paradise, the godhead, etc.) but could not attain it. But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, “everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure.” Gradually, Calhoun lost attention, standing, and funding. In 1986, he was forced to retire from the National Institute of Mental Health. Nine years later, he died.When I first heard Peter Attia’s discussion around aging and the Centenarian Decathalon in 2018, a huge paradigm shift occurred in my thinking. But once the native people were colonized alcoholism became close to universal. There were entire reserves where virtually every teenager and adult was either an alcohol or drug addict or “on the wagon”. There still are a few reserves like this. Addiction was not limited to alcohol, but eventually encompassed the full range of addictions found in the wider society: drugs, television, gambling, Internet, dysfunctional love relationships, etc. Author James Nestor on how breathing properly can improve overall health". CBS News. September 10, 2020 . Retrieved February 15, 2021. The pleasure Dome rises spherical and transparent, a magnificent bubble of contentment. Surely I’ll be able to enlist some allies, for here is where the most fortunate of rats dwell. They don’t want to see their happy life disrupted by a revolution!” (130) This audiobook not only delves into the scientific aspects of longevity but also explores the art of living well. It offers practical tips, actionable advice, and inspiring anecdotes that empower listeners to make positive changes in their own lives.

Betts, Hannah (February 7, 2022). "Mouth-taping lessons from breathing expert James Nestor". The Times. Archived from the original on February 7, 2022 . Retrieved December 14, 2022. Comments deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic. Historical events: The few historical occurrences (and one thought to be true at the time) and accompanying documents mentioned appear as the suppression of the animal rebellion reaches its devastating end (see n. 2). Considering the 70s context, Kotzwinkle deploys general images from the Vietnam War: animals scurrying from the “rainbow of death” of chemical warfare caused by “special Army Mixtures, Agent Blue, Agent Orange, and Agent White” (185).Outlivea well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health. On December 10, 2021, I had the honor of giving a commencement speech to the graduates of the Human Dimensions of Organizations Program at the University of Texas. Here is the text of my speech. For me the most disturbing moment occurs when the male pig must impregnate the female pig in the concrete cell — these two passages convey incredible Malzbergian existential angst:

In the 1960s, some experimental psychologists began to think that the Skinner Box was a good place to study drug addiction. They perfected techniques that allowed the rats to inject small doses of a drug into themselves by pressing the lever. This required tethering the rat to the ceiling of the box with tubing and surgically implanting a needle, or catheter, into their jugular veins. The drug passed through the tube and the needle into the rats’ bloodstreams almost instantaneously when they pushed the lever. It reached their brains moments later. Nestor, James (May 21, 2020). "The Healing Power of Proper Breathing". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved June 3, 2020. Prior to the colonial conquest, the native people had some serious problems, of course, including frequent tribal warfare, with prisoners being killed or kept as slaves. Mental illness, personal betrayals, and epidemic diseases occasionally occurred in pre-colonial tribes. Basically, native people had all the problems of their English colonizers except one. There was so little addiction that it is very difficult to prove from written and oral histories that it existed at all. In 1973, Calhoun published his Universe 25 research as “Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population.” It is, to put it lightly, an intense academic reading experience. He quotes liberally from the Book of Revelation, italicizing certain words for emphasis (e.g. “to kill with the sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts”). He gave his claimed discoveries catchy names—the mice who forgot how to mate were “the beautiful ones”’ rats who crowded around water bottles were “social drinkers”; the overall societal breakdown was the “behavioral sink.” In other words, it was exactly the kind of diction you’d expect from someone who spent his entire life perfecting the art of the mouse dystopia. Calhoun standing above his mice laboratory in 1971. Stan Wayman/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty ImagesIt may be the most powerful chapter for healthcare providers (particularly men) to read. A great extension of Terrence Real’s “I Don’t Want to Talk About It”. One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt, New York Timesbestselling author of Freakonomics In both cases, the colonizers or the experimenters who provide the drug explain the drug consumption in the isolated environment by saying that the drug is irresistible to the people or the rats. But in both cases, the drug only becomes irresistible when the opportunity for normal social existence is destroyed. He has been married to author Elizabeth Gundy since 1965. [3] List of works [ edit ] Novels [ edit ] This book defies easy description by the plain simple fact that it transcends itself, over and over.