Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 6, Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2000
Bomby the Bombardier Beetle Issue
On the cover: For a new understanding of biology, see the special Bomby section that begins on page 4. 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:Bomby the Bombardier Beetle
Seven perspectives on the landmark book Bomby the Bombardier Beetle
- Bomby, Bomby, Bomby (an introduction)* -- Sally Shelton
- Bomby: Thoughts of a Forensic Entomologist* -- Mark Benecke
- Creative Science Serves Up a Lukewarm Potboiler* -- Harold P. Dowd
- Bomby: The Military Review* -- Earle Spamer
- Carabid Family Values* -- Brett C. Ratcliffe
- Referee Report for "Bomby"* -- Eric Schulman
- Class Insecta is Dead* -- Sally Shelton
- Harry and Bomby* - Sally Shelton
- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- The HMO-NO Newsletter: Spiff Up Your Image!
Shifty New Paradigms
- Cogno-Intellectualism, Rhetorical Logic, and the Craske-Trump Theorem -- Michael H. F. Wilkinson
- The Human Element in Mathematics -- Stephen Leacock
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- AIRhead Olympics Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- Plucked From Obscurity: Device for Perfusing an Animal Head* -- Marina Tsipis
- Achievements in Scrounging: Disk Drives and Caterpillars* -- Poppi Alko Vanallen
- 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
- The Evolutionary War
- Nobel Thoughts: Steven Weinberg -- Marc Abrahams
- Ask Symmetra: Spreading Out-- Scientist/supermodel Symmetra
- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
Cartoons &Feline Reactions
- Feline Reactions: At the Portsmouth Peace Conference -- Stampor Brand
- Insect Camouflage -- Nick Kim
- Sonnet by a Bard with Sprue -- Robert B. Pascal
Miscellany
- English, German and Italian AIR and Time
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