Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 6, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2000
Special Crabs & UFOs Issue!
On the cover: An internal combustion-powered vehicle and the Crab Nebula. Cover design by Peaco Todd. (To see the cover enlarged, click on the image.)
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: Crabs & UFOs
- Mass Stranding of Horseshoe Crabs Bob Reid
- Proof that UFOs are Powered by Internal Combustion Engines Scott A. Sandford
Medical Breakthroughs
- AIRhead Medical Review* Bertha Vanatian
- The HMO-NO News: Every Drop Counts!
- The Coffee Diet Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Shifty New Paradigms
- Some Tips for Spackling and Plastering a Black Hole Phil Shapiro
- The Resistance of Astronomers to New Paradigms Eric Schulman
- Laptops and Lab Manuals John Perry
Almost Lost & Found*
A new section, spotlighting genuine, important research that has been overlooked or forgotten
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- Nobel Thoughts: Horst Störmer Marc Abrahams
- AIRhead Research Review* Dirk Manley
- May We Recommend* Stephen Drew
- Boys Will Be Boys* Katherine Lee
- Meeting Brief: Complexity* Karen Hopkin
- Plucked From Obscurity: Financial ID Tatoo* Marina Tsipis
- Project AIRhead 2000* Grigor Belfrey
- Scientists Now Know…* Ada Tussock
- Boring Engineers* Lamont Frith
News & Notes
- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- Bends on the Learning Curve Richard Lederer
- Ask Symmetra: Reflected Feelings Scientist/supermodel Symmetra
- Plausible Statistics
Cartoons, Poetry & Feline Reactions
- Early Case of RSI Nick Kim
- Feline Reactions: Emil Fischer’s Lab Stampor Brand
- Could This Be Any Cilia? Gary Hallock
- The Song of the Endoscopist Robert R. Pascal
- So They Say* Suzi Savannarola
Miscellany
- English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- Ig Info
- Teachers’ Guide
- Stale AIR
- IBC Unclassified Ads
- IBC AIR Info
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