Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 4, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1998
Annual Swimsuit issue
On the cover: Photo of a Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals model of cervical vertibrae, submitted by Bruce M. rthschild, MD, of the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio. Rothschild writes that "it seems to portray (albeit unconsciously) a sad reminder of the current plight of medical care delivery."
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 Annual Swimsuit Section
- Improbable Swimsuit Sweeties of 1998
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Project AIRhead 2000*
- AIRhead Research Review*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- May We Recommend*
- Shiseido Discovers*
- The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less Translated Ten Times or More
- Nano-Cars and Buckyball Pyramids
- Penises in the Plant Kingdom
- Cat Tunneling
- Does It Rain More Often on the Weekends?
- AIR Vents
- Nobel Thoughts: George Olah
- The HMO Black™ Newsletter
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Ask Symmetra
- Spot-the-Typos Contest
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Playing God
- The Donor
- Gunga Dean
- The Space Child's Mother Goose
- Scientific Gossip
- Someone Still Doesn't Like Us
- Plausible Statistics
- The Eight First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony
- Teachers’ Guide
- Stale AIR