Annals of Improbable Research
| Download a free, cheesy low-res PDF of this issue DOWNLOAD |  | Buy a beautiful high-res PDF of this issue |
Table of Contents for
Vol. 11, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2005
Yawning issue
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.
*
On the front cover: A study in the journal Medical Hypotheses explains that wearing heeled shoes puts one at risk of becoming schizophrenic. Photo: Alice Shirrell Kaswell/AIR.
(To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)
On the back cover: Small change on top of a 2004 psychology researh report titled “Toward a Descriptive Model of Small Change.” Photo: Stephen Drew/AIR.
(To see the back cover enlarged, click on the image.)
Cover design by Peaco Todd.
Special Section: YAWNING
- 4 -- On Yawning; or, The Hidden Sexuality of the Human
Yawn* -- Wolter Seuntjens - 10 -- Experiments in Yawning* -- R.G. Briskett
- 13 -- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 17 -- A Smattering of Yawns* -- Emil Filterbag
Improbable Research
- IFC -- Other Einsteins* (Part 1) -- A.S. Kaswell, with Jessica Girard
- 24 -- Do Copied Citations Create Renowned Papers?* --
M.V. Simkin and V.P. Roychowdhury - 29 -- Textbook Disclaimer Stickers -- Colin Purrington
Recommended Research*
- 8 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 9 -- Fresh Pond Gas* -- Emil Filterbag
- 14 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
- 16 -- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 18 -- Icky Cutesy Research Review * -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 19 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 20 -- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- 21 -- Trouble Underfoot* -- Bertha Vanatian
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 15 -- Socially Scientific-- Robin Abrahams
- 16 -- HMO-NO News: Relief Therapy!
- 22 -- Ig Nobel Keynote Speeches*
- 28 -- AIR Books
- 28 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 30 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 31 -- "How They Moved" -- Nick Kim
- 31 -- Back Issues
- IBC -- Unclassified Ads
Coming Events
- (see www.improbable.com for details of coming events)