Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 7, Issue 4, Jul/Aug 2001
Special BEHAVIOR Issue!
On the cover: An unidentified scientist shows how Myron Crumbacker (see page 26) re-enacted a classic experiment in behavior. Photo: A.S. Kaswell..
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: BEHAVIOR
- 4 Free Stuff Experiment -- Jeff Van Bueren
- 7 Oxidative Stress and the Third Reich -- Patrique Roonquel
- 9 If Scientists Worked as Waiters and Waitresses -- Lloyd Fricker
- 10 Synchronized Pipetting -- Mary Abraham and Jochen Rink
- 26 The Science Life Series (Part 7): Myron Crumbacker: Portrait of a Scientist -- George Englebretsen
- 23 A Plea for Nostril Research -- Melvin Landry
- 12 The HMO-NO Newsletter: Chronic Caring
- 13 AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian, M.D.
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 14 AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 15 May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 16 Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 17 Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
- 18 Plucked From Obscurity: Method of Exercising a Cat* -- Marina Tsipis
- 21 Dull and Boring Authors* -- Earle Spamer
- 22 Scientists Now Know…* -- Ada Tussock
Images, Poetry & Feline Reactions
- 8 Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: Buffalo Bill Under Observation -- Stampor Brand
- 15 Retort -- Nick Kim
- 24 Tenureclocky -- Dany Adams
News & Notes
- 2 AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 15 Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 19 Scientific Dining: FBI National Academy’s Dining Hall -- Mark Benecke
- 22 Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 25 Ask Symmetra: Boy Toy -- Scientist/supermodel Symmetra
- 25 Plausible Statistics
Miscellany
- 7 Teachers’ Guide
- 3 English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 31 Stale AIR
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