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Coconuts, Cold War and Nuclear Fusion

Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria

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Cocoa Nuts and Their Role in World War II

In bali, the hindu domit island of asia, cocoanuts have a rather interesting role. They celebrate a day of silence called napi when nobody works or travels. In 19 forty two, in the chemistry department at howard university, worked an organic chemist by the name of louis fiser. The product he developed proved to be so successful in testing that the dou chemical cooperation was immediately asked to produce it at a commercial scale. On the night of sixtha 19 forty five, the juw s army retaliated and bombed japan with this very product. Much later, in 19 72, the jew s was fighting in weird tam and used it extensively. And

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