Annals of Improbable Research
Table of Contents for Volume 9, Issue 2
Dismal Science & Poetry issue
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On the front cover: Economics textbooks, and a countable number of beans. See page 4 for the former, page 11 for the latter. (To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)
On the back cover: In the parking garage of the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: A.S. Kaswell. (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: DISMAL SCIENCE & POETRY
- 4 -- Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics, Translated* -- Yoram Bauman
- 9 -- Hitler´s Skull and Teeth* -- Mark Benecke
- 11 -- How Many Beans Make Soup? -- Michael Reidy
- 14 -- How Do Scientists Spend Their Time?* -- Ernest Ersatz
- 15 -- Vile Poetry and Worse Taste* -- Chris McManus
Medical Breakthroughs
- 14 -- HMO-NO News: Generic Doctors!
- 18 -- Till All the Drip Dries Up (The Doctor’s Woeful, Skinny Spouse) -- A.S. Kaswell
- 25 -- AIRhead Medical Review* -- Bertha Vanatian
AIRhead Research Roundup*
- 20 -- AIRhead Research Review* -- Dirk Manley
- 21 -- Boys Will Be Boys* -- Katherine Lee
- 22 -- May We Recommend* -- Stephen Drew
- 23 -- Soft is Hard* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell, G. Neil Martin, and Bissell Mango
- 24 -- FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE: Gardenome* -- Ian Davis
- 27 -- Scientists Now Know...* -- Ada Tussock
- 29 -- Icky Cutesy Research Review* -- Alice Shirrell Kaswell
- 30 -- The Inhumanity of Prozac* -- Ladyfrend Maidenhead
Cartoons & Non-Dismal Poetry
- 13 -- A MINI-Poem: Legume Kaboom -- A.S. Kaswell
- 26 -- Biochemistry 24/7 (Enhanced) -- Richard Roberts
- 28 -- Serendipity -- Nick Kim
News & Notes
- 2 -- AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
- 24 -- Solution to Last Issue’s Puzzler
- 29 -- Bends on the Learning Curve -- Richard Lederer
Miscellany
- 3 -- Teachers’ Guide
- 25 -- Ig Nobel Info
- 28 -- AIR Books
- 30 -- Stale AIR
- Inside back cover -- Unclassified Ads
- Inside back cover -- AIR Info