The world, with the exception of the USA, will celebrate World Standards Day on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. As usual, the event is organized by the world’s leading developers of international standards: the IEC [the International Electrotechnical Commission], ISO [the International Organization for Standardization] and the ITU [the International Telecommunication Union]. The USA will celebrate […]
This paper, about the amount of energy contained in fat people in the USA, can fuel a new level of contentiousness in the nation’s ongoing, highly opinionated debates about energy policy, and perhaps about other things: “How much energy is locked in the USA? Alternative metrics for characterising the magnitude of overweight and obesity derived […]
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 […]