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I would like to welcome you to Monte Verità, the Mount of Truth. At the beginning of the century this place attracted a number of painters, sculptors, performing artists, writers, but also psychologists, medical doctors, businessmen and socialites, who were seeking a new way of life. They became anarchists, dadaists, nudists, etc., and broke with all traditions and morals of society hoping to establish a new, utopian society which would make human beings free and happy. They were looking for a chimera. If Saffman is right, there is no better place to talk about turbulence!
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Dracos, T. (1993). Opening Address. In: Dracos, T., Tsinober, A. (eds) New Approaches and Concepts in Turbulence. Monte Verità. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8585-0_1
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