The special PEOPLE issue of the magazine (Improbable Research)

The special PEOPLE issue (volume 32, number 4, July/August 2026) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers.

Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many aspects of digestion and/or indigestion:

  • People Research Review
  • Unattractive and Attractive People
  • Little People
  • Big People
  • Massive People
  • Looking at People: Spousal Likeness
  • May We Recommend: Who Does the Child Look Like?
  • Ig Nobel Illustrated: Living as a Goat
  • Improbable Research Review: Dog Pitch, Dry Moist, Psychosemenology
  • Medical Research: Tired, Old, Smelly
  • Icky Cutesy Research: Mice in Bottles, Fish in Schools, Shrikes’ Strikes
  • Ig® and Beyond: People Appreciating Food
  • Ig Nobel Limericks: Heart Throbs, Loss and Constipation
  • How To Write in a Completely Foreign Language
  • and more

We invite you to  subscribe to the magazine (six new issues a year, each in PDF form), or treat yourself to some back issues.

Improbable Research