Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1997
Ig Nobel issue
On the cover: Scientist/ supermodel Symmetra (left) and fellow mezzo-soprano Margot McLaughlin sing the roles of cockroaches in the mini-opera "Lament Del Cockroach." The performance was part of the Sixth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The action shown here takes place at the climax of Act 3. At right, Ig Nobel Minordomo James Mahoney manipulates one end of the rope on which a Martian meteorite is travelling towards the lovely, but doomed, cockroaches. The full libretto of the opera is on pages 13-15. Photo: Bruce Petschek.
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.
The Sixth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
- Special Report
- The Ig Nobel Welcome, Welcome Speech
- The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
- Words from the Winners
- The 1996 Hiesenberg Certainty Lectures
- Tributes to Biodiversity
- Foot Auction
- The Ig Nobel Goodbye, Goodbye Speech
- We Are Amused
- "Lament Del Cockroach" – the Libretto
- AIRhead Legal Review*
- End Results*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- May We Recommend*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- Achievements in Mararishi Technology*
- Lessons to Read Aloud: Caution: Falling Lizards*
- AIRhead Research Review*
- Research Spotlight: Why Do People Accept Job Offers?*
- AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler
- Plausible Statistics
- Sleep Research Update
- Ask Symmetra
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Unclassified Ads
- Teachers’ Guide
- Nick Kim Cartoon
- Nobel Thoughts: Elie Wiesel
- The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less