Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 2, Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1996
Ig Nobel Prize issue
On the cover: William Lipscomb (multi-striped hat), Sheldon Glashow, and three other Nobel Laureates (not pictured here) perform the new Stanley Eigen poem, "DNA and Green Eggs and Ham," at the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.
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.
Special Report: The 1995 Ig Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
- '95 Ig Nobel Prizes Go for Pigeons, Perfume, Coffee, Cereal, Underwear, and Blunt Objects
- The 1995 Ig Nobel Prizewinners*
- Welcome, Welcome Speech
- Highlights from the Acceptance Speeches
- Kids' Tribute to DNA
- James Watson's Tribute to DNA
- DNA and Green Eggs and Ham
- Symmetra's Tribute to DNA
- Keynote Address
- The 1995 Heisenberg Certainty Lectures
- Goodbye, Goodbye Speech
- AIRhead Research Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Project AIRhead 2000
- May We Recommend*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Lessons to Read Aloud: The Bed Ecosystem*
- Lauren Holly Discovers*
- Nobel Thoughts: Walter Gilbert
- AIR Vents (letters from readers)
- Teachers’ Guide
- A Seat of Affection Resides in the Bowel
- Cafeteria Review: Siemens R&D Center
- The Seventh Quark
- Happy Yeast