Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 2, Issue 5, Sep/Oct 1996
Generic issue
On the cover: Photomicrograph showing a ventral view of Capillaria (Nematoda:Trichinelloidea) from the epithelium of the tongue of a long-nosedbandicoot, Perameles nasuta (Marsupialia: Peramelidae), Broulee, NewSouth Wales, Australia. The photo was taken by the late Ken A. Wrightof the Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,Canada. The details were identified by Dave Spratt of the CSIRODivision of Wildlife & Ecology, Lyneham ACT, Australia. (Thanks toWendy and Paul Cooper for bringing this to our attention.)
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 Legal Review*
- AIRhead Research Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- Words to Remember (1)
- Naomi Campbell Discovers*
- Words to Remember (2)
- May We Recommend*
- Far Flung Findings*
- End Results*
- Research Spotlight: Remove Brains with a Water Hose*
- AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
- Continental Drifters
- Scientific Dining: The Scripps Research Institute Cafeteria
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler
- Nobel Thoughts: Clifford Shull
- The Sixth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Ask Symmetra
- Plausible Statistics
- Teachers’ Guide
- Ascertaining Scientific Status
- Lawsuit, Schmawsuit
- How to Write a Scientific Paper
- Evolutionary perspectives on the origins of the common mongrel (Canis Vulgaris)
- Periodic Table of the Presidents
- Cracks and Mothers’ Backs
- Biodiversity—An Anagrammatic Tale