Annals of Improbable Research
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Table of Contents for
Vol. 11, No. 3, May/Jun 2005
Security 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.
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On the front cover: Security guards, circa 1925. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress
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On the back cover: Sign on a science fair tent in Stockholm, Sweden, August 2004. Photo: A.S. Kaswell, AIR staff..
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Cover design by Peaco Todd.
Special Section: SECURITY
- 4 -- Assessing Gluteal Hardness in Uniformed Security Guards -- Peter Freundlich
- 22 -- Global Boom* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Stephen Drew
- 28 -- Security Guard Research Review* -- Nan Swift
Improbable Research
- IFC -- Other Einsteins* (Part 3) -- A.S. Kaswell, with Jessica
Girard - 9 -- The Name Number for Astronomy* -- Eric Schulman and Caroline V. Cox
- 10 -- The 6-Pack Ring Fishing Experiment -- Antoni Chan, Benjamin Stein and Kenneth Bromberg
- 20 -- Two Scientists Meet For Lunch* -- L.X. Finegold and E.A. Spamer
Recommended Research*
- 8 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 14 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin,
and Bissell Mango - 15 -- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- 19 -- Scientists Now Know* -- Olph DeShaies
- 24 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 25 -- Reading Textbooks for Pleasure* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 26 -- Icky Cutesy Research Review* -- Tige Lament
- 29 -- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 16 -- Puzzling Solutions -- Emil Filterbag
- 28 -- HMO-NO News: Healthier Genes!
- 7 -- AIR Books
- 29 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 27 -- Ig Nobel Invitation
- 30 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 31 -- CARTOON: “Excimer Laser” -- Nick Kim
- 31 -- Back Issues
- IBC -- Unclassified Ads
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