Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 4, Issue 5, Sep/Oct 1998
Social Science issue
On the cover: This Beavis-like figure is an obsolete embryo, one of what was originally a set of twins. One ovum caused the other to be absorbed, resulting in the digestion, so to speak, of this embryo. The second embryo came to term and was delivered in good shape. Photo by Scott Lindgren, appearing here courtesy of the Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, where the specimen has resided since 1874.
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 Social Sciences Section
- Notes From an Expedition to the Cellfoan People
- The Individual's Perception of the Effects of Problem Gambling: A First-Hand Study
- The World's First Ever Real Life Experiments
- What Are They Doing? (Psychology)*
- Book Review: For Dummies®, the Advanced Series
- The Genetic Basis of Personality
- AIRhead Research Review*
- Sarah Ferguson Discovers*
- AIRhead Medical Review*
- Boys Will Be Boys*
- May We Recommend*
- Fire Researcher
- A Space Child's Mother Goose: Notions Quite New
- In Academe
- The Proposal
- AIR Vents
- The Scoop on the Weather
- The HMO BLACK™ Newsletter
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Nobel Thoughts: Arthur Kornberg
- Bends on the Learning Curve
- Teachers’ Guide
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Ask Symmetra
- Ig® Nobel Prize Notice
- Loopy Lawsuit Update
- Teachers' Guide
- Stale AIR
- Subscription Form
- Unclassified Ads
- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- Ask Symmetra