Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
Table of Contents for Volume 8, Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2002
ART & SCIENCE Issue
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On the front cover: A scene from the opera “Il Destino di Grant Application” (see page 9). (To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)
On the back cover: Components from a cut-out-the-pieces-and-assemble-it kit available from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The kit reproduces, in miniature, the popular “Tipoo’s Tiger” mechanical toy that commemorates an Indian tiger mauling a British officer. (To see the back cover enlarged, click on the image.)
Cover design by Peaco Todd.
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: ART & SCIENCE
- 4 -- The Tring Tiles* -- Ayers Bagley
- 9 -- Libretto for “Il Destino di Grant Application” -- Lloyd Fricker
- 12 --Hiawatha’s Photographing -- Lewis Carroll
Shifty New Paradigms
- 13 -- The Subterranean Ape Theory -- Lorenzo L. Love
- 19 -- The Lighter Side of a Life in Science* (second of two parts) -- Duncan C. Blanchard
- 21 -- The Avian Bombing Target Experiment -- Jeff Van Bueren
- 27 -- Cosmic Headlights and the Origin of Gamma Ray Bursts -- Eric J. Heller
Medical Breakthroughs
- 17 -- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
- 18 -- HMO-NO News: Scan-tastic!
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 22 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 23 -- Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
- 24 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 25 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
- 26 -- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
Cartoons, Poetry, Images, Blueprints, Menus, Microfilm, Fingerprints, Marriage Announcements, Diplomas Operas, and/or Eyecharts
- 18 -- Statue Record-- Nick Kim
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers) - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4
- 8 -- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 26 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
Miscellany
- 20 -- AIR Books
- 25 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 29 -- Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Info
- 31 -- Stale AIR
- Inside back cover -- Unclassified Ads