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 […]
Tag: economics
Innovative traffic jam research in Nairobi
We seldom receive requests for research funding, which works out well because we have no funding to give. A letter arrived this week that is so compelling we present it here, with the hope that someone will help out: Subject: Research on ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF TRAFFIC JAMS IN KENYA Hi, I follow the Ig Nobel […]
Pickle juice disposal: Deep wells
This is Part 1 in our Problems with Non-Chinese Pickels series, a companion to our Problems with Chinese Pickels series. A study by R.D. Smith, suggests that deep well disposal is, in some cases, the most feasible method of providing isolation of pickle juice at a reasonable cost. The study is: “BURYING YOUR PICKLE LIQUOR […]
Male organ of/and economic growth
A new study of sorts from Helsinki ties the field of economics just a little more tightly to the traditional sciences. It also cites the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize-winning Canadian study “The relationships among height, penile length, and foot size,” Kerry Siminoski and Jerald Bain, Annals of Sex Research, 6(3), 1993. The new study is: “Male […]