Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 7, Issue 3, May/Jun 2001
PHYSICS Issue
On the cover: Physics is a chancy endeavor.
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: IMPROBABLE PHYSICS
- 4 Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass -- Lucas Kovar
- 5 Quantum Gravity Treatment of the Angel Density Problem -- Anders Sandberg
- 8 The Physics Colloquium -- Harry N. David
- 14 Nobel Thoughts-- Douglas Osheroff* -- Marc Abrahams
- 16 How to Write a Job Application -- Eric Schulman
- 18 The Latest on Long-Running Experiments* -- Marc Abrahams
- 22 Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Part 5) -- Kurt Vial
- 24 "The Physics is Not Well Understood"* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, and featuring favorites from Berry, Bender, Fisher, Friedlander, Grenier, Kruszelnicki, Law, and Peebles
- 20 The HMO NO News: First Class Care
- 28 AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian, M.D
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 7 May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 29 Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
- 30 Still More About Beards* -- Alice Shirell Kaswell and Chana Lajcher
- 31 Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Images, Poetry & Feline Reactions
- 21 Happy Fat People -- Nick Kim
- 29 Nano-Porn™-- Pendulous Arabadopsis -- Simcha Lev-Yadun
News & Notes
- 2 AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 27Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
Miscellany
- 7 Teachers’ Guide
- 15 English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 31 Stale AIR
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