Takashiro Akitsu: Environmental Science: Society, Nature, and Technology

American Chemical Society: Environmental Science & Technology Table of Contents

[Twins in nature, science, and society].

Rome is certainly one of the places in the world which speaks to us of twins more than any other, and, in Rome itself, the Gapitoline Hall of the Horatii and Guriatii triplets. From the myth of Romulus and Remus, history gradually passes through the tale of the triplets from Rome and Albalonga, who prevented a bigger war, up to the memory of the Emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius, who had twin...

Operators in Nature, Science, Technology, and Society: Mathematical, Logical, and Philosophical Issues

The concept of an operator is used in a variety of practical and theoretical areas. Operators, as both conceptual and physical entities, are found throughout the world as subsystems in nature, the human mind, and the manmade world. Operators, and what they operate, i.e., their substrates, targets, or operands, have a wide variety of forms, functions, and properties. Operators have explicit phil...

Science, technology and society in postwar Japan

SHIGERU NAKAYAMA, Science, technology and society in postwar Japan, Japanese Studies Series, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. xv, 259, £45.00 (0-7103-0428-5). Shigeru Nakayama's new book is a welcome addition to the literature available in English on Japanese science and technology. As the title suggests, the writer, a distinguished historian of science, has set himself ...

Science, Technology, and the Indian Society

Traditionally, keynote talks are delivered by individuals with significant influence on the society. Ministers or secretaries of governments, or presidents of large commercial corporations usually qualify. You also listen to the same people through the media. You want them to tell you what should be done. They quote from the ancient scriptures, which they interpret for you. They quote from mana...