Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 3, Issue 5, Sep/Oct 1997
How-To issue
On the cover: Photomicrograph from the article "A Happy Discovery.".
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 How-To Section
- How to Resurrect Houseflies
- How to Stiff a Taxi Driver (Part 1)
- How to Write a Ph.D. Dissertation
- AIRhead Legal Review*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- May We Recommend*
- End Results*
- AIRhead Research Review*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- A Happy Discovery (Front Cover)
- Commentaries on Grayson's "Burkina Faso"
- Physicists vs. Mathmatitians
- Why There Are No Men Available
- Nick Kim Cartoon
- A Space Child's Mother Goose
- In Academe
- The Proposal
- AIR Vents: Exhalations from our Readers
- The HMO BLACK™ Newsletter
- Cafeteria Review: The Johns Hopkins Greenhouse Cafeteria
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Plausible Statistics
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Mehmet Oz Discovers*
- Ask Symmetra
- A Look at a Book (or two)*
- Nobel Thoughts: David Baltimore
- Teachers’ Guide
- Unclassified Ads
- Scientific Gossip
- More Scientific Gossip
- Even More Scientific Gossip