Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 6, Issue 3, May/Jun 2000
Crime & Punishment Issue
On the cover: Analysis of a criminal. 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: Crime & Punishment
- n Guilty Men* Alexander Volokh
- What Does Crime Taste Like? A Test of the McGruff Hypothesis Matthew Hickman and Brian Lawton
- Crime and Punishment -- A Personal Meditation Harold P. Dowd
- Hardened Criminals (Part 3) Kurt Vial
Medical Breakthroughs
- Waste Not Want Not: Appendix Transplantation Andrew Skolnick et al
- AIRhead Medical Review* Bertha Vanatian
- The HMO-NO Newsletter: You're in Charge!
Centerfold
- Professor Lipscomb Goes Shopping
Shifty New Paradigms
- Detection of the Ch'i Meson Allan Ashworth
Almost Lost & Found*
A new section, spotlighting genuine, important research that has been overlooked or forgotten
- Re-Discovery: To Sea, and Not to See* Marc Abrahams
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- AIRhead Research Review* Dirk Manley
- Boys Will Be Boys* Katherine Lee
- May We Recommend* Stephen Drew
News & Notes
- Nobel Thoughts-- Murray Gell-Mann Marc Abrahams
- Bends on the Learning Curve Richard Lederer
- Plausible Statistics
Cartoons &Feline Reactions
- Feline Reactions: Haeckel in the Canaries Stampor Brand
- Cartoon by Nick Kim
Miscellany
- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- Ig Info
- Teachers’ Guide
- Stale AIR
- IBC Unclassified Ads
- IBC AIR Info
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