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The Dolphin House
Atrocity Guide covers the 1965 dolphin experiments of Dr. John C. Lilly and Margaret Howe, who tried to teach dolphins English. It traces the bizarre methods and Lilly's later drug-fueled beliefs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a decent, entertaining summary of Lilly's life and work whenever dolphin communication research comes up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Atrocity Guide
- Topic
- john lilly dolphin experiments
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
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This video does a decent job of summarizing his life and work: [VIDEO] . It emphasizes his later decent into drug abuse and new age pedagogy. The man was clearly something of a monster. I have a macabre interest in the no holds barred era …
bonnie76 on Hacker News · 2021-12
In John C. Lilly ‘modified human agents’ human, dolphin neuropsychology experimentsThis video does a decent job of summarizing his life and work: [VIDEO] . It emphasizes his later decent into drug abuse and new age pedagogy. The man was clearly something of a monster. I have a macabre interest in the no holds barred era …
bonnie76 on Hacker News · 2021-12
In John C. Lilly ‘modified human agents’ human/dolphin neuropsychology experiment's>A woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt lived full-time with the Dolphins attempting to learn a shared language between them. She also had sex with a male dolphin called Peter. >He would take LSD and place himself in the tank and believed he was psychically communicating …
meindnoch on Hacker News · 2025-04
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