Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 4, Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1998
Ig Nobel issue
On the cover: Scientest/supermodel Symmetra attempts to remove a plaster cast from the left foot of Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach. The operation was successful. The resulting plaster replica was auctioned off at the 7th First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony. Plaster left feet of Nobel Laureates William Lipscomb (visible rear of this photo) and Walter Gilbert also were auctioned, as was a set of five toes of Symmetra. All proceeds from the auction went to the science programs of the Cambridge public schools.
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 1997 Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony
- At the 7th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
- The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
- Tribute to Sir Robert May
- The 1997 Heisenberg Certainty Lectures
- Welcome, Welcome Speech
- Goodbye, Goodbye Speech
- Libretto: Il Kaboom Grosso
- Tributes to the Big Bang
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- Christy Turlington Discovers*
- May We Recommend*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- AIRhead Research Review*
- Mel is Swell
- Space Child's Mother Goose
- AIR Vents
- Nobel Thoughts: Don and Dottie Thomas
- Ask Symmetra
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Spot-the-Typos Contest
- The HMO Black™ Newsletter
- Dining: The SLAC Cafeteria
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- WARNING: AIR on Tour
- Someone Still Doesn't Like Us
- Teachers’ Guide
- Stale AIR
- Unclassified Ads
- AIR Info