Economic Research Gifts

Trickle up and down elevator.

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"Welcome to the bank - you'll start at the bottom."

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Fear/Knowledge

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Wally Begins research for his thesis entitled "who's a good dog?"

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

He may have a PH.D in elementary particle physics, but he's having an awful lot of trouble with the application form.

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

'Dr Hodges, here, is from England and he's been observing us for 14 years. Mr Ferrell, an American, has been here only 3 weeks. Monique Corveu, from Paris, has practically been living with us for about nine years...'

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

The Three Wise Queens

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'It's all original research. I had no assistance when I looked it up on Wikipedia.'

Do your research!

"Eat not of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Its sources have yet to be verified."

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'