The experiment begins on november nineteenth, 19 forty four keys gathers his guinea pigs at the laboratory of physiologial hygiene underneath the football stadium. We are here because of the problem of relief feeding in general, and particularly in the war devastated areas to day. When we startd this experiment we were all given the same amount of food rit listening to the oral histories from the veterans of the minnesota starvation experiment is a strange experience. It's where i listen to all these really superabscure, intellectual podcasts that i am embarrassed to tell you the names of. I use my racon wireless ear buds which are so comfortable and give me such crystal clear sound that i can
In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. What happened in the Department of Physiological Hygiene? Revisionist History uncovers a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress.
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