Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 3, May/Jun 1997
Managed Health Care issue
On the cover: ABOVE: A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a fractured surface from a sample of the rare-earth alloy NdFeB at 8000X magnification. The image is said to resemble the Luckdragon Falkor from the movie, The Neverending Story. It was captured by Paul Gwan of the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics, National Measurement Laboratory, Sydney, NSW, Australia. BELOW: Mel and some of his clones. For details, see the article "Family Trees for Clones".
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 Section: Managed Health Care
- Editorial: Managed Health Care
- HMO Black™
- Safe Nose Picking
- Maternal Spray Bonding
- CT Scanning—A Public Health Hazard?
- Pen Fired by Cross-Bow Doesn’t Kill
- AIRhead Research Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Foul is FAIR*
- AIRhead Legal Review*
- May We Recommend*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
- Plausible Statistics
- Nick Kim Cartoon
- Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler
- Spot the Bimbos Contest
- Nobel Thoughts: Edwin Krebs
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Boys Will Be Boys
- Fun Things with Students
- Teachers’ Guide
- Ask Symmetra
- The Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Info
- A Lousy Tale