Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 6, Issue 4, Jul/Aug 2000
Postage & Handling Issue
On the cover: Like Hermes, the ancient Greek messenger god, modern postal services are sometimes associated with shoes. See "Postal Experiments" article. 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: Postage & Handling
- Postal Experiments -- Jeff Van Bueren
- Ground-Breaking Studies: Do They Break Concrete? -- G. Neil Martin
- Structured Procrastination -- John Perry
Medical Breakthroughs
- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- The HMO-NO Newsletter: Experience Counts!
- A Four Letter Word in the Medical Literature* -- Kenneth J. Gorelick
- A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Isometric Exercise in Plants And Animals -- Gregory J. Crowther
Shifty New Paradigms
- Authors of a Different Color (and One Total Blank)* -- Earle Spamer
Almost Lost & Found*
Spotlighting genuine, intriging research that has been overlooked or forgotten
- Rediscovery: The Essence of a Sniff* -- Marc Abrahams
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- Nobel Thoughts: Herb Simon -- Marc Abrahams
- Plucked From Obscurity: Annunciator For the Supposedly Dead* -- Marina Tsipis
- Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
- Project AIRhead 2000* -- Grigor Belfrey
News & Notes
- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- Spot the Typos Contest
- Solution to Last Issue's Puzzler
- Ask Symmetra: Hot Rolf -- Scientist/supermodel Symmetra
- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
Cartoons &Feline Reactions
- Feline Reactions: At the Painting Exhibition -- Stampor Brand
- Pavlov's Dogs -- Nick Kim
Miscellany
- English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- Ig Info
- Teachers’ Guide
- Stale AIR
- Unclassified Ads
- AIR Info