Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 7, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2001
YAVIS Issue
On the cover: One century’s Oedipal wench is another’s YAVIS. Our cover shows an adaptation of a painting that hung on Sigmund Freud’s office wall. In this version, Freud calculates his chances of successfully analyzing a declining patient. For the story on YAVISes, see 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: The Importance of Being YAVIS
- 4 It’s Good to Be a YAVIS* -- Alice Kaswell, et al.
Medical Breakthroughs
- 7 The HMO NO News: Chronic Caring
- 14, 30 AIRhead Medical Review*
Shifty New Paradigms
- 8 On the Anatomy of Hans Brinker -- Cindy van den Boom, Matthew de Roode and Alex Sieval
- 10 The Value of Self-Acknowledgement -- Greg Crowther
- 11 Billing Account Number Analysis—Why It’s So Hard to Pay Off the National Debt* -- Scott Sandford
- 28 A Public Relations Experiment* -- Gene Weingarten
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 15 AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 16 May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 17 Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 18 Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 19 Plucked From Obscurity: Odiferous Object Finder* -- Marina Tsipis
- 20 Project AIRhead 2000: Bongos + Brass* -- Grigor Belfrey
- 21 Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
Off-Centerfold
- 24 Professor Lipscomb Makes a Cup of Tea -- Marc Abrahams
Images, Poetry & Feline Reactions
- 6 The Smile Inside an Urchin* -- Elissa Rellihan
- 10 Bad Cell Culture -- Nick Kim
- 20 Feline Reactions: Tennyson Under Kitty -- Stampor Brand
- 22 Size and Tears -- Lewis Carroll
News & Notes
- 2 AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 14 Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 18 Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 21 Ask Symmetra: High Spirits -- Scientist/supermodel Symmetra
Miscellany
- 7 Teachers’ Guide
- 12 English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 31 Plausible Statistics
- 31 Stale AIR
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