Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 8, Issue 4, July / August 2002
WIENER SAUSAGE Issue
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On the front cover: A Wiener work, and some wiener sausages (see page 4). Photo: Alice Shirell Kaswell. Cover design by Peaco Todd. (To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)
On the back cover: To find out what the "This" of "What Is This?" is, see page 1 of the print issue. (To see the back 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: WIENER SAUSAGE (and math)
- 4 -- Highlights From the History of the Wiener Sausage (part 16)* -- Stephen Drew
- 6-- Zero-Tolerance Math: A Defense of “No Math”-- Michael H.F. Wilkinson
- 8 -- The Search For a Hot Craps Table -- Jason Zweiback and Ken Wharton
Shifty New Paradigms
- 12 -- The Skull of Poor Old Cope* -- Earle A. Spamer
- 16 -- The Size of a Jelly Molecule as Estimated by Jelly Electrophoresis -- Gregory J. Crowther
- 18 -- “I Can’t Live Without Him—But He’s Destroying the Earth!”-- Brenda Quinn
- 28 -- Proverbial Prevention: A Quantitative Study -- Carmen J. Giunta
Medical Breakthroughs
- 10 -- The HMO NO‰ Newsletter: More Roughage!
- 11 -- AIRhead Medical Review*-- Bertha Vanatian, M.D.
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 15 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 20 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 21 -- Body of Work: Adventures of A. Parrott* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Stephen Drew
- 22 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
- 22 -- Double-Bland Experiments* -- Otto Didact
- 25 -- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 30 -- Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
- 30 -- Icky Cutesy Research Review* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 31 -- Bean Nail Growth Research* -- Plinth Planck
Images & Poetry
- 23 -- Photomicrograph: Quartzkopf -- Werner Buerger
- 27 -- Things the Dinosaurs Were Doing -- Nick Kim
- Back cover-- What Is This Picture?
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 24 -- A Tale of a Tale of a Beard* -- Alice Shirell Kaswell
- 26 -- Questions From the Chinese Translator*
- 27 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
- 28 -- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 28 --- Plausible Statistics
Miscellany
- 3 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 14 -- AIR Books
- 29 -- Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Info
- 31 -- Stale AIR
- Inside back cover -- Unclassified Ads