History

The sleep experiments during World War II In the late 1940s, Soviet researchers have created a stimulant that they believed can keep a person awake for a long time, which is very useful when you’re fighting a war! Like in the movies which we see about war today, there were a lot of research going on, specially in terms of stimulating the efficiency of the war comrades. In the second world war specifically, the Germans had their version of such a stimulant, which was a formidable methamphetamine called the ‘Pervitin’. This was used by the Nazi Military to increasing the time a soldier was up and running (reducing sleep). This drug also increased energy & reduced hunger, making the perfect soldiers in battle. While the Germans were at it, the Americans and the British were dosi...

There is a silver line behind every cloud. So, is there a benefit of Covid-19 SARS Virus, which costs millions of lives and losing your loved ones? Towards the latter part of Covid-19, many governments toppled, and many people realized that they are in power. This mostly affected developing nations than developed nations. But is Covid-19 the reason for this or is it human psychology and sociology? source: https://www.flickr.com/fortinbras/Flickr/CC%20BY-NC-SA%202.0 Is revolution the right word for people standing up? The word ‘revolution’ is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system. But did this start recently when people started realizing they were only pawns in the game whilst the 1% of the economy and the whole country was run by rich pe...