Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 1, Issue 5, Sep/Oct 1995
Pediatrics Issue
On the cover: Sonographic image of fetus praying for delivery. Photo by Carol B. Benson, MD and Peter Doubilet, MD, PhD, Brighams and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
The features marked with a star (*) are based entirely on material taken straight from standard research (and other Official and Therefore Always Correct) literature. Many of the other articles are genuine, too, but we don't know which ones.
Research
- The Palliative Effects of Osculation on the Prognosis of Pediatric Wounds
- The Lipscomb Musical Method
- Use of the Colon in Titles of British Medical Sociology Conference Papers, 1970 to 1993*
- The Value of Love, Using the Dylan Model
- The Mathematics of Telephone Numbers
- My Favorite Microbe: Saccharomyces Cervisiae
- A Man, a Woman, a Yeast*
- Near-Grant Termination Experiences
- A Solution to the Half-Empty / Half-Full Problem
- Timely Cortisone Administration for Auto Accident Trauma
- Fingerprints of Fingerless Organisms
- AIRhead Research Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- May We Recommend*
- AIRhead Legal Review*
- Cindy Crawford Discovers*
- Far Flung Findings*
- Missing Article
- Nobel Thoughts: Richard Roberts
- Ig Nobel Invitation
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Teachers’ Guide
- AIR Vents (letters from readers)
- Three Wonders of Science
- Mendeleev's Song
- Electrical Poetry