Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)

Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1997

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Annual Swimsuit issue

On the cover: A scanning electron micrograph of a sample of the fossilized byozoan species, Selenaria sp., found in the Victoria, Australia. Photo: Phil Bock, Department of Civil nad Geological Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology. (To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)

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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

• Scientific Swimsuit Sweeties

AIRhead Research Roundup

• AIRhead Legal Review*
• AIRhead Medical Review*
• AIRhead Research Review*
• Project AIRhead 2000*
• Princess Caroline Discovers*
• Foul is FAIR*
• Improbable Soccer Science*
• Boys Will Be Boys*
• End Results*
• May We Recommend*

News and Notes

• AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
• Spot the Typos Contest
• Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler
• Nick Kim Cartoon
• Ask Symmetra
• Plausable Statistics
• A Look at a Book (or two)*
• Bends on the Learning Curve
• Teachers’ Guide
• The Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Info

Research

• Dumplings on the March
• Spoon Exacerbation of Anorexia Nervosa
• K is for Potassium
• Anti-Optimal Foraging by Wile E. Coyote