Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 8, Issue 1. Jan/Feb 2002
IG NOBEL Issue
On the cover: ABOVE LEFT: Stalin World founder Viliumas Malinauskus accepts the Ig Nobel Peace Prize. BELOW RIGHT: Lisa Danielson and Will Stefanov get married. Photos: Caroline Coffman. 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 Eleventh 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
- 4 -- Death and Taxes, Hell and Wheels, Glee and Nose-Picking (and a Wedding!) at the Ig
- 8 -- The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize Winners*
- 9 -- The 2001 Ig Nobel Acceptance Speeches
- 17 -- Opera Libretto: “A Complex Wedding”-- Marc Abrahams
- 21 -- When Will Wed Lisa: An Ig Nobel Wedding
- 23 -- The 24/7 Seminars
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 28 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 29 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 31 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
Medical Breakthroughs
- 26 -- The HMO NO Newsletter: Ultra-Modern Medicine!
- 27 -- AIRhead Medical Review*-- Bertha Vanatian, M.D.
Images & Poetry
- 30 -- Angling -- Nick Kim
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 7 -- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
Miscellany
- 25 -- English, German and Italian AIR and Time
- 20 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 31-- Stale AIR
- IBC -- Unclassified Ads
- IBC -- AIR Info