‘Yawp’ is a widespread problem in China. • Causing problems in fuel cells – see: Using of the wavelet theory in wiping off the yawp from the fuel cell signals • negatively impacting power plants – see: Control Technology and Example on Yawp in Thermo Power Plants • provoking uncertainty in microwave standards – see: […]
Tag: China
Advice: To chew or not to chew
It is not an absolute, inviolable rule that one should always chew one’s food. Whether or not this Time report is accurate, its advice at the end is basic and good: A fishmonger in southern China found a live bomb inside one of his squid. The man — identified only as Mr. Huang by the Guangzhou Daily — said that while […]
China edition of the Ig Nobel Prizes book
The China edition of my first Ig Nobel Prizes book (ISBN 978-7-308-10345-9) is now out. Here’s the cover. I don’t quite understand the imagery, but I think I like it: The first edition was published in England, the second in the US, and a bunch of others followed. As did the second Ig Nobel book. And […]
Tea that is of, If Not for, Insects — Its Place in Culture
Some tea news, for thee: “Insect tea, a wonderful work in the Chinese tea culture,” Lijia Xu, Huimin Pan, Qifang Lei, Wei Xiao, Yong Peng, Peigen Xiao, Food Research International, epub January 17, 2013. The authors, at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and at the Ministry of Education, in Beijing, China, explain: “Insect tea… […]
Dumpling Fog in China – a Computer Simulation
Impressive though the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway is (opened 1996) the Zhenjiang branch section does suffer from an occasional meteorological drawback. In the form of ‘Dumpling Fog’. Prompting Yan Mingliang and colleagues at the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry (of Education), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China, to attempt an algorithmic emulation of […]
Experimental economics: Trade an island for a debt
Paul V. Kane, described as “a former international security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School”, published (in the New York Times) his idea to solve two nations’ economic problems in a single stroke. He suggests that the United States should sell Taiwan to China for one trillion dollars. (Thanks to investigator Jonas Nyman of the […]
Pup joint alert
Pup joints are in the news—an almost unheard of occurrence, because most people have never heard of pup joints. The Canadian International Trade Tribunal trumpets the word: CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL INITIATES AN INQUIRY PUP JOINTS FROM CHINA Ottawa, Ontario, September 13, 2011—The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into a […]
Prices of Eight
How much is 8 worth? Quite a few thousand Yuan, according to new research into Chinese vehicle licence plates. Travis Ka Ho Ng, assistant Professor Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has completed his latest academic project looking into ‘The Value of Superstitions’. And the results of his investigations – performed […]