Rouge Salon Presents: Death Squared at Caveat

Three veteran storytellers illuminate obscure histories for your curiosity and delight. Featuring: Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes Wrong In the 1960s, a mad scientist designed a perfect mouse utopia filled with unlimited food and sexy pleasures. But when the experiment spiraled into chaos, the fallout reshaped both mouse and human societies. With additional talks: Victorian Scavengers: When Waste Paid the Rent Discover how Victorian Britain’s hidden workforce turned the era’s urban filth into profit to avoid the harsh confines of the workhouse. Coercive Philanthropy: All The Equality Money Can Buy A Gilded Age heiress used her vast fortune to ensure that in medical education; women are accepted on the same terms as men. In doing so, she raised the bar for everyone. Your presenters are: Leonard Apeltsin is a scientist and filmmaker who enjoys filming documentaries about treasure-hunts and NYC’s dark history, as well as telling true tales of science and societies gone wrong. Kathy Odds is a curious Brit in NYC, with an insatiable curiosity and a love for learning across endless subjects. Jennifer Batt is a semantic specialist and amateur storyteller whose favorite stories are society-changing histories you’ve never heard before.