Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan / Feb2001
IG NOBEL Issue
On the cover: "Please stop, I’m bored." Thus saying, nine-year-old Miss Sweetie Poo enforces the speakers’ time limit at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Photo credits, clockwise from top: David Holzman, Herbert Blankesteijn, D. Holzman, H. Blankesteijn. 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: IG NOBEL
- 5 Peace, Love and Frogs at the 2000 Ig*
- 7 The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize Winners*
- 8 The Great Intelligence Debate*
- 19 Libretto: The Brain Food Opera Don Kater and Marc Abrahams
The Winners Speak…
the Acceptance Speeches for:
- 11 Biology Prize* Richard Wassersug
- 11 Computer Science Prize* Chris Niswander
- 12 Chemistry Prize* Donatella Marizziti
- 12 Literature Prize* Michael Baume
- 13 Medicine Prize* Pek van Andel
- 14 Medicine Prize (2): To Make Love as a Testee* Ida Sabelis
- 16 Peace Prize* Richard Roberts
- 17 Physics Prize* Andrey Geim
- 18 Public Health Prize* Jonathan Wyatt and Gordon McNaughton
Medical Breakthroughs
- 22 AIRhead Medical Review* Bertha Vanatian
- 23 The HMO NO News: Trade-In and Save!
Shifty New Paradigms
- 26 Who Will Win the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election?* Eric Schulman
- 28 The Groundhog Oscillation: Evidence of Global Change* Andrew J. Gerrard, Christina M. Gerrard, Mark A. London, Keith A. Soldavin, Timothy J. Kane, and Alan Freed
Extra Special Section: Remembering Victor Borge
- 24 Four Cheers Five Victor Borge Richard Lederer
- 25 Leonid Hambro: Working With Victor Borge*
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 4 AIRhead Research Review* Dirk Manley
News & Notes
- 2 AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 11 Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
Cartoons & Feline Reactions
- 22 Optimists and Pessimists Nick Kim
- 30 The Hemorrhoidectomy * Robert R. Pascal
Miscellany
- 10 English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 18 Teachers’ Guide
- 31 Stale AIR
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