Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)

Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 4, Jul/Aug 1997

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Peculiar Patents issue

On the cover: Animal Cloning pioneers G. Hoffman (second and fourth on right) and J. Nanian confer before reporting to a special meeting of the University of Trieste Research Oversight Committee. Echoes of criticism follow them everwhere.(Photo:R.R. Smith/MWA News)

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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 Section: Peculiar Patents

• The Kokko Collections of Fine Patents*
• AIRhead Legal Review*
• A Five Minute Wonder*

AIRhead Research Roundup

• AIRhead Research Review*
• AIRhead Medical Review*
• Foul is fAIR*
• AIRhead Legal Review*
• May We Recommend*
• Project AIRhead 2000*
• Boys Will Be Boys*

News and Notes

• AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
• Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler
• Spot the Bimbos Contest
• Nobel Thoughts: Edmond Fischer
• Nick Kim Cartoon
• Plausible Statistics
• The HMO BLACK^TM Newsletter
• Bends on the Learning Curve
• Ask Symmetra
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta Discovers*
• Scientific Gossip
• Teachers’ Guide
• Unclassified Ads

Research

• DuRynne-Winnald Physiology Demonstration
• The Grand Canyon-Further Final Report, and User's Guide
• Journeys (Sometimes) End in Lovers Meeting
• A Stamp of Vanishingly Small Value*

Poetry

• The Rise of Science Fear