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Table of Contents for
Vol. 13, No. 4, July/Aug 2007
Where in Your Head 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: Two of Fowler’s “symbolic head” charts from the mid-1800s. For further Fowler phrenology, see the article “Phrenology Favorites.”
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On the back cover: Three phrenological drawings from the book Cours de Phrenology, written by F.J.V. Broussais, published in Paris in 1836.
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Cover design by Peaco Todd.
Special Section: Where in Your Head
- 6 -- Where in Your Head?* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 12 -- Phrenology Favorites* -- Stephen Drew
- 14 -- The Neural Correlate of Ignorance -- Kai M. Schreiber
Improbable Research Reviews*
- IFC -- Questions About Pockets* -- Katherine Lee
- 4 -- Improbable Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 5 -- Improbable Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- 18 -- Soft Is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
- 20 -- Linnaeus the Observant* -- Honoré Schoolcraft
- 22 -- Sounding Gay* -- Katherine Lee
- 23 -- Icky Cutesy Research Review* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 24 -- Lester’s Latest* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 28 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 13 -- AIR Books
- 25 -- Ig Nobel Invitation
- 26 -- Puzzling Solutions -- Emil Filterbag
- 26 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 27 -- HMO-NO News: Best Drugs!
- 30 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 31 -- CARTOON: "Foot and Mouth Disease" -- Nick Kim
- 31 -- Back Issues
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