“Operation Ranch Hand” (1962-1971) used aerial-spary (of defoliants and herbicides) to prevent Viet Cong from using food and vegetation cover for their ambush. The procurement of chemicals for the spray, particularly, napalm from the Dow Chemical and Agent Orange from Monsanto, Hercules Inc. (and a few more companies) was objected by 17 nobel laureates, 5000ContinueContinue reading “Sustainability Economics”
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Euler’s (compiled) works in Bernoulli-Euler Zentrum, Basel
Recently, I had an opportunity to visit the University of Basel in Switzerland, which houses a fascinating archive centre in its University Library — the “Bernoulli-Euler Center (BEZ in German)”, founded in 2010.I was kindly hosted and given a brief tour of the archive centre by the researcher and archivist based in the centre, SulamithContinueContinue reading “Euler’s (compiled) works in Bernoulli-Euler Zentrum, Basel”
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