Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 7, Issue 5, Sep/Oct2001
ANIMAL & VEGETABLE Issue
On the cover: Happy spiders (see pge 8) and zucchini (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: ANIMAL & VEGETABLE
- 4 Cloning of the Zucchini Opiate Receptor -- Lloyd Fricker
- 8 Happyface Spiders* -- Mark Benecke
- 9 The Descent of Animals* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 11 The Pliocene Pussy Cat Theory -- Lorenzo Love
- 16 Inducing Religion In Sea Monkeys-- Ian Thomas
- 18 Rationale for “Vertebrate Animals” -- Lloyd Fricker
- 19 Pycnogonids Rising: The Answer to Sea-Level Rise and Water on Mars -- Rick McCourt and Earle Spamer
- 23 AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian, M.D.
- 24 The HMO-NO Newsletter: Expect the Best
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 25 AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 26 May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 27 Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 28 Plucked From Obscurity: Nose Shaper* -- Marina Tsipis
- 29 Icky Cutesy Research Review* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Images, Poetry & Feline Reactions
- 15 Platypus -- Paul Humphrey
- 28 Predicting Hormonal Behavior 101 -- Nick Kim
News & Notes
- 2 AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 30 Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 31 Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
Miscellany
- 6 Erratum: Free Stuff
- 15 Teachers’ Guide
- 26 English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 30 Stale AIR
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