Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 2, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1996
Annual Swimsuit issue
On the cover: This photomicrograph shows spores of the fungus Sporothrix flocculosa. The fungus was grown on a sterilized human hair. The spores fell and were dehydrated. They formed the pattern shown here. Submitted by Don Pohlman of Windsor Ontario.
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.
AIRhead Research Roundup
- AIRhead Research Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- End Results*
- AIRhead Legal Review*
- Cindy Crawford Discovers*
- May We Recommend*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- Far Flung Findings*
- Scheduled UFO Sightings
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Nobel Thoughts: William Lipscomb
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- A Word Square With A Difference
- Ig Nobel Call for Nominess
- Teachers’ Guide
- AIR Vents (letters from readers)
- In Search of the Holy Grail
- Evolutionary perspectives on the orgins of the common mongrel (Canis Vulgaris)
- Computer Search for a Needle in a Haystack
- Mondocentrism
- Biblio-Obesity
- On the Shoulders of Heavy Giants
- Everything You Know Is Wrong: Statistics & Medical Research
- How to Review a Scientific Paper
- The Gordon