• "Grim legacy of technology's big blunders," Daily Telegraph (London), December 31, 1999
• "A Century of Spectacular Failures", Wired News, December 29, 1999.
• "'2000' may soon become a thing of the past for marketers", The Boston Globe, December 26, 1999.
• "The Best of Annals of Improbable Research" [book review], Current Science [India], December 25, 1999
• "Lipstick on the collar goes high-tech" and "Here's to you, Arvid," Canadian Medical Assn. Journal, December 14, 1999
• "WINNERS: The Ig Nobel Prizes...," Discover, December 1999.
• "Ig Nobels Honor Dubious Achievements" and "Can't Do Science in a Vacuum?", Chemical & Engineering News, November 29, 1999.
• "The Snark Hunter Award: The Ig Nobel Prizes," Skeptic.net, 1999,
• "Send in the Clones", HMS Beagle, November 26, 1999.
• "Scientific nose for biscuits," South China Morning Post, November 10, 1999
• "How milk takes the biscuit for taste," The Guardian, November 9, 1999.
• "Cold Milk Takes the Biscuit", BBC, November 9, 1999.
• "Ig Nobel Awards Recognize Eclectic Achievements", The Scientist, November 8, 1999.
• "LETTER: Thanks to school board for basket of bananas", Rocky Mountain News, November 3, 1999.
• "Nobelists celebrate the wild and wacky", Physician's Weekly, November 1, 1999.
• "Excellence in Science", Internal Medicine News, November 1, 1999
• "The IgNobel awards for eccentric research are going live on the web," Mail and Guardian [South Africa], October 27, 1999
• "Proud to be Silly," New Scientist, October 23, 1999. [Letter from Ig winner Len Fisher]
• "Kansas education chair refuses Ig Nobel Prize",Nature, October 21, 1999
• "Saratoga Sampler," Saratoga News, October 20, 1999
• "A CHILLY PEPPER -- Does the world really need a gentle jalapeno? Creators say yes; others ask, 'Why bother?'", Dallas Morning News, October 19, 1999.
• "Mobile Phone Squelchers -- Register readers weigh in," The Register, October 18, 1999
• "THE HOLE TRUTH\NOT ALL DOUGHNUTS CREATED EQUAL, COPS FIND", Toronto Sun, October 17, 1999.
• "Krishnas Congratulate Kansas Board Of Education," Vaishnava News, October 16, 1999
• "The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard invited me back because...," Suck, October 16, 1999
• "1999 Ig Profiles", HMS Beagle, October 15, 1999.
• "And now for something completely different," Aerotech News and Review, October 15, 1999.
• "Ig Nobel Prize [letter]", Kansas City Star, October 14, 1999.
• "SA company wins Ig Nobel Peace Prize", Daily Mail&Guardian [Johannesburg], October 13, 1999.
• "Many Nobel laureates were on hand...",Newsday, October 13, 1999.
• "An Ig Nobel thought: Are they going bananas?",Boston Globe, October 13, 1999.
• "Kansas educators to tackle wording of new science standards", CNN, October 12, 1999.
• "Education board hears citizens / Professor, gorilla Hare Krishnas attend meeting" [with a photo], Daily Kansan, October 12, 1999.
• "State board meeting evolves into a circus", Lawrence [Kansas] Journal-World, October 12, 1999.
• "Decision Lampooned, Lauded",Topeka Capital Journal, October 12, 1999.
• "Kansas board appears stuck with a monkey on its back", Deseret News, October 12, 1999.
• "The conflict over evolution continues to simmer at Kansas Board of Education meeting in De Soto", Kansas City Star, October 11, 1999.
• "Not So Noble Nobels", Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1999.
• "What Do You Call a Guy...", US News & World Report, October 11, 1999.
• "Feedback's Favorite Awards: The Ig Nobel Prizes", New Scientist, October 9, 1999.
• "Journal Honors 'Ig Nobelists," A Taste for Mayhem, Wonderful World of Elevators," On-Line Journalism Review, October 8, 1999
• "Science Spectacles", Times Literary Supplement, October 8, 1999.
• "How Do You Get A Gaggle...", Science, October 8, 1999
• "Ig Nobel Ceremony Honors Nutty 'Scientific' Research", Harvard Gazette, October 7, 1999.
• "Education: Tales Out of School," The Independent (London), October 7, 2000
• "Ig prizes spawn a new generation of Nobels", Nature, October 7, 1999.
• "Evolution decision earns spoof award", Kansas City Star, October 5, 1999.
• "Ig Nobel Winners Bring Research To MIT at First Ig Nobel Lectures", The Tech, October 5, 1999.
• "Not-so-noble Prizes Amuse and Bemuse Audiences", The Tech, October 5, 1999.
• "NO NOBEL? MAYBE YOU'LL WIN AN IG", The Wisconsin Journal, October 5, 1999.
• "Harvard Humor Magazine Bestows Ig Nobel Prizes for 'Achievements'", Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 1999.
• "Those nutty professors at Harvard are out with the Ig Nobel Prizes", San Diego Union-Tribune, October 4, 1999.
• "Colorado's science standards earn (dis)honorable mention", Rocky Mountain News, October 3, 1999.
• "Scientists should't take science so seriously", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 3, 1999.
• "The Others of Invention", Washington Post, October 2, 1999.
• "Cups run over for scientists who take a joke", The Times [London], October 2, 1999.
• "One for the potty: how to make tea", Daily Telegraph, October 2, 1999.
• "Fancy a Quick Cuppa -- in 5000 Words?", The Guardian, October 2, 1999.
• "Watchdogs are waffle winners",The Herald [Glasgow], October 2, 1999.
• "Why dunkin' doc is a prize boffin," Western Daily Press, October 2, 1999.
• "Dunking, doughnuts win Ig Nobel prizes," South China Morning Post, October 2, 1999
• "AN UNPOTTED GUIDE TO MAKING TEA", The Independent, October 2, 1999.
• "The Ig Nobels: Alternative prizes awarded for some strange scientific 'advances'" Montreal Gazette, October 2, 1999.
• "Homage to the Inconsequential", Newsweek, October 2, 1999.
• "And now ôignobleÕ awards", The Tribune [India], October 2, 2000.
• "Tea guidelines take the biscuit for waffle",Daily Mail [London], October 2, 1999.
• "Truly tea-dious", The Journal [Newcastle], October 2, 1999.
• "Brits Take the Biscuit", BBC, October 1, 1999.
• "Dizzy breakthroughs honoured with improbable research awards. Lone Canadian takes dubious prize for doughnut study", National Post, October 1, 1999.
• "The Boston Tea Party ", ScienceNow, October 1, 1999.
• "IG NOBEL ART OF MAKING TEA HONOURED", Press Association, October 1, 1999.
• "Ig Nobels honor Strange Science", ABC News (from AP), October 1, 1999.
• "Ig Nobel Review", WMBR (MIT Radio), October 1, 1999.
• "TEA BUT NO SYMPATHY FOR WORDY BREW", Birmingham Post [UK], October 1, 1999.
• "Winners make noble effort to cop their Ig Nobel Prize ", Boston Herald, October 1, 1999
• "The Most Ig Noble Of Prizes Awarded ", Yahoo (from Reuters), October 1, 1999.
• "Mild chile peppers bring fame to N.M. biologist", Albuquerque Tribune, October 1, 1999.
• "Wacky Inventions Win Ig Nobels ", Harvard Crimson, October 1, 1999.
• "Rare spin on infant delivery `honored,'" and "Full Honors" San Jose Mercury News, October 1, 1999.
• "State board receives not so noble award ", Daily Kansan, October 1, 1999.
• ZDNET, October, 1999.
• "Gong Site", Canberra Times, September 30, 1999.
• "Awards Are Going Live on the Web ", The Guardian, September 30, 1999.
• "Scientific Descendants Sought For Ig Nobels", Harvard Gazette, September 16, 1999.
• "Hit and Run No. CLXXXVIII", Suck, September 16, 1999.
• "The Best of Annals of Improbable Research", Journal of Chemical Education, September 1999. [book review]
• "Ig Nobel event sure to transmit jokes right through air!",Nashua Telegraph, 1 September, 1999.
• "Does a bear-proof suit protect you in the woods?", Panic Magazine, August, 1999.
• "An Improbable Journal Sparks Non-Linear Humor", Chemistry, Summer, 1999. [click on the Summer 1999 issue]
• "Improbable Researchers in Washington", Washington Post, July 6, 1999.
• "A Grizzly Obsession Suits Him", Boston Globe, July 6, 1999.
• "...Looking for descendants of famous scientists...", New Scientist, May 22, 1999
• "Celebrating Scientific Silliness", APS News, May, 1999.
• "Weird Science and Wild Wireless Times", Tele.Com Magazine, April 19, 1999
• "Canadian suiting up for grizzly undertaking," American Metal Market, February 2, 1999
• "REVIEW: ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH," LiP Magazine, February 1, 1999
• "A Formula for Laughter", Jerusalem Post Magazine, 15 January, 1999
• "The Improbable Science of Marc Abrahams", The Improper Bostonian, 13 January, 1999

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• "Miskleunen van de eeuw", De Standaard [Belgium], December 30, 1999
• "Gli oscar della risata alle follie della scienza," La Republica [Italy], December 16, 1999
• "DE NOBELPRIJS VOOR ONZIN", KIJK magazine  [The Netherlands], November, 1999
• "Des prix Nobel de la dérision ," Le Journal de Saone-et-Loire [France], 1999
• "IG NOBEL UN PREMIO DA RIDERE",Corriere del Ticino  [Italy], October 28, 1999
• "Buchrezension: Der Einfluß von Erdnußbutter auf die Erdanziehung," Benecke.com [Germany], October 26, 1999
• "Interpretacion macanocuantica de la homopatia," El Esceptico [Spain], October 1999
• "L'IG NOBEL AL CALZINO DEL PLAYBOY",La Stampa [Italy], October 20, 1999
• "La formula del biscotto che non sbriciola," Panorama [Italy], October 15, 1999
• "Noble Konkurrenz," Die Zeit [South Africa — Afrikaanz], October 14, 1999
• "Nicht nur Tee ist eine Wissenschaft für sich," Wissenschaft-Online [Germany], October 10, 1999.
• "Priser till forskning som helst bör glömmas", Dagens Nyheter [Sweden], October 9, 1999
• "Sciences: une parodie de Nobel pour célébrer l'insolite ou l'ignoble,"Le Monde [France], October 7, 1999
• "Nordmann vant Nobel-pris med uringlass", CNN Norge [Norway], October 5, 1999
• "Norsk urinprovsstudie belšnad med anti-nobelpriset," Aftonbladet [Sweden], October 2, 1999
• "L'altra faccia della scienza," La Repubblica [Italy], September 30, 1999
• "Annals of Improbable Research," Dumjahn [Germany], May 1999
• "Reirse con la Ciencia", Planeta HUMANO [Spain], March 1999
• "Scienza Bizzarra", Primavera [Italy], March 1999

Audio

• National Public Radio's broadcast of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, on Science Friday, 26 November 1999. (RealAudio\ File).

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• "If you never liked science because you thought it was dry and humorless, you've got another think coming", Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 13 December, 1998.
• "Ig Nobel Awards, 1998: Paper Airplanes, Duct Tape, and General Happiness", The Scientist, 23 November, 1998.
• "All Duct Out in the Name of Science", The Skeptic, vol. 6, no. 4, 1998.
• "Science that approaches the improbable", Kingston [Ontario] Whig-Standard, 16 November, 1998.
• "Mensa Visits the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony" [with lots of photos], Boston Mensa, November, 1998
• "The Sweet Smell of Success", The Philadelphia Daily News, 13 November, 1998.
• "Ig Nobel Awards Mix Science and Humor", Boston Software News, November, 1998.
• "The American science-humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research has also been investigating...", New Scientist, 31 October, 1998.
• "Not all science prizes are equally noble", Tampa Tribune, 31 October, 1998.
• "HAVING FUN IS IG NOBEL ENDEAVOR", Arizona Republic, 21 October, 1998.
• "The Ig Nobels," The Dispatch [South Africa], October 15, 1998.
• "A Fine Time at the Ig Nobels", and "RoboCop, Pseudotherapy, and Penile Length: The 1998 Ig Nobel Prizes", and "IgNobel Voyage: The Horror, the Horror", Netsurfer Digest, 20 October, 1998.
• "The prizes that the scientific establishment await each year...", New Scientist, 17 October, 1998.
• "Clams on Prozac, an Opera about Duct Tape...", Harvard Gazette, 15 October, 1998.
• "Science gone mad," Telegraph, October 15, 1998.
• "Smarter than your average bear-suit ", The Times (London), October 14, 1998
• "Duct Tape Celebrated at Ig Nobel Ceremony", The [MIT] Tech, 13 October, 1998.
• "Irreverence Key to Other 'Nobels," Arizona Republic, October 13, 1998
• "Smelly finger research upholds British honour", and "A Lavish Presentation Ceremony", The Guardian (London), 12 October, 1998.
• "BAD SCIENCE AND HUMOROUS RESEARCH SKEWERED AT THE IG NOBEL AWARDS", Skeptics List, October, 1998.
• "Poking Fun at Science" [with lots of photos], ABC News, 10 October, 1998.
• "Nobel prize spoofs given for weird science", WLVI-TV Channel 56, 9 October, 1998.
• "Weird science earns Ig Nobel prizes," The Holland Sentinel, October 9, 1998.
• "Bear Armor and Frisky Clams Win Ig Nobels ", Science Now, 9 October, 1998.
• "French scientist shrugs off winning his second Ig Nobel prize", Nature, 8 October, 1998.
• "For his efforts, Chopra takes Ig Nobel Prize", San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 October, 1998.
• "Noble endeavor: Read of possible pain from eating your heart out", Nashua Telegraph, 7 October, 1998.
• "Researcher Proves Scientists Are Funny. Some of Them.", New York Times, 6 October, 1998.
• "Grizzlies Are his Strong Suit", Ottawa Citizen, 6 October,1998.
• "Blindsided by Science", Wired News, 5 October, 1998.
• "The IgNobel prize, awarded for genuine yet barmy ", Sunday Telegraph [London], 4 October,1998.
• "From the Fast Track to the Laugh Track", Boston Software Newspaper, October, 1998.
• "Annals of Improbable Litigation," Harvard Magazine, September-October 1998
• "Lessons from Seat of Learning", The Scotsman [Glasgow], 27 September, 1998.
• "Want to be Superman?: Inventor has the suit", The Montreal Gazette, 22 September, 1998.
• "Nature is usually the first...", New Scientist, August 29, 1998.
• "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids," Science, June 5, 1998. [includes Arthur C. Clark's prediction about the Ig Nobel Prizes.]
• BOOK REVIEW: The Best of Annals of Improbable Research, Journal of the American Medical Association, May 27, 1998.
• "The Annals of Improbable Research -- on Tour!", SF Weekly, April 22, 1998.
• "Theories of improbability: Gum-chewing Nobelists talk silly science", Stanford Report, April 15, 1998.
• "BOOK REVIEW: The Best of Annals of Improbable Research", New Scientist, April 18, 1998.
• "The Grub Gets a Drubbing at Institute", San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9, 1998.
• "Is It Ig Nobler for Science...", Journal of the American Medical Association, April 1 1998.
• "Boost or Boot or Just Ig Nored?", Journal of the American Medical Association, April 1 1998.
• BOOK REVIEW: The Best of AIR, Discover Magazine, March 1998
• "E-mailed antigens and Iridium's iridescence," Skeptical Inquirer, January-February 1998.
• "The Most Expensive Chairs in the World", The Washington Post, February 8 1998.
• "Get a (Past) Life -- While You Can", The Washington Post, January 11 1998.



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• "Die Marx Brothers im Wissenschaftsbetrieb," Universum [Austria], 1998
• "Bravo, meriti l'IgNobel", Il Mondo [in Italian], 30 October, 1998.
• "Cozze felici e grizzly senz'armi",Tempo Medico[in Italian], 28 October, 1998.
• "Ed ecco i premi Ig-Nobel Laureate le ricerche pi inutili e sciocche", La Stampa [in Italian], 21 October, 1998.
• "AIR IgNobel Preise 1998: Im Zeichen der Ente", Die Zeit [in German], 15 October, 1998.
• "Alternativ nobelpris for stinkende finger," Nettavisen [in Norwegian], October 12, 1998
• "Die Nonsenss-Nobelpreise", Bild [in German], 10 October, 1998.
• "Annals of Improbable Research," University of Amsterdam Biology Department News [in Dutch], October 1998
• "Von friedlichen Zundungen zur Abwehr", Salzburger Nachrichten [in German], 10 October, 1998.
• "Antinobelpreise in den USA", Rein Zeitung [in German], 9 October, 1998.
• "Das Muttergluck der Muscheln", Die Welt [in German], 9 October, 1998.
• "In der Jury sitzen auch Passanten", Die Welt [in German], 8 October, 1998.
• "Fatterelli di cerniere e bambole gonfiabili", Tempo Medico [in Italian], June 3, 1998.

Audio

• National Public Radio's broadcast of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, on Science Friday, 27 November 1998. (RealAudio\ File).
• AIR's Somewhat Serious Science is a regular feature on Science Friday
        •  Super philosophy
        •  Which field of science has the smartest people?
        •  Anagrams
        •  Is faster-than light travel possible?
        •  Does reality exist?

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• BOOK REVIEW: "Having fun with science, but for a serious purpose" The Rocky Mountain Press, 7 December, 1997.
• "Improbable Researchers Gather for 1997 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony" APS News, December 1997
• BOOK REVIEW: "Those Wacky Scientists and their Silly Games", The Globe & Mail, 15 November, 1997.
• "Prizes for the Rest of Us", The Why Files, November 1997.
• "Unconventional Wisdom: New facts and hot stats from the social sciences", The Washington Post, 2 November, 1997.
• "Chicken debunker wins a prize," Sunday Times [London], October 19, 1997
• "'Ig Nobel Prizes' Awarded to 10 Scholars for Insect-Splat Finding and Other Feats," Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 October, 1997.
• "Games: The Ignobel prizes ," The Independent (London), October 16, 1997
• "Connected: Spammer's award," Daily Telegraph [London], October 14, 1997
• "Bug splats identified," Augusta Chronicle, October 14, 1997.
• "Masters of mediocrity also honoured," South China Morning Post, October 11, 1997
• "Ig Nobels awarded at where else? Harvard University ," Baltimore Sun, October 11, 1997
• The Whiteboard News, 10 October, 1997. (excerpt)
• "Making a splat in the noble cause of science," The Times [London], October 10, 1997
• "Noble winner mocks Blair's science chief," Daily Telegraph [London], October 10, 2000
• "A Gala Night for Weird Science", Wired News, 10 October, 1997.
• "'Ig Nobel' prizes awarded for mediocrity", Reuter, 9 October, 1997.
• "Purple Haze: What Is Barney Anyway?", MADorRAD?, ABCNews.com, 16 August. (Text file)
• "Annals of Improbable Research," LibraryJournal, August, 1997. [Review of the magazine]
• "Is the Enlightenment out of fashion?," 21stC, Spring, 1997
• "BARNEY'S BONE STRUCTURE BARELY RESEMBLES ANY KNOWN...", The New Republic, March 3, 1997.
• "An Interview with Don Featherstone", On Stagnant Pond - A Cybersalute to the American Plastic Flamingo, February 27, 1997.
• "Who's the Smartest of Them All?," Science, February 21, 2000
• "As if!", Hoosier Times, 1997.
• "Mastermind of Scientific Humor", Baltimore Sun, February 21, 1997.



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• Werft bitte endlich eure Perlen unter die Sue!", Die Weltwoche [Switzerland], October 1997.
• ""Ig Nobel" premia mediocridade", O Estado de Sao Paulo [Brazil], October 11, 1997.
• "Annals of Improbable Research," Tempo Medico [Italy], May 21, 1997
• "L'autre visage de la science", Quebec Science, April 1997.

Audio

• National Public Radio's broadcast of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, on Science Friday, 28 November 1997. (RealAudio\ File).

Internet Media

• HotAIR was one of the cool sites reviewed on Pat and Mike's Audio Show (July 21, 1997).
• Screens from HotAIR and SharewAIR (as well as the WebMaster) were featured on The Internet Cafe during the third and fourth weeks of February. The show's theme was "Weird Science".

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• "The Victors Go Despoiled", Scientific American, December 1996. (Gif of the magazine page).
• "Creators of zany projects honored," Detroit News, November 04, 1996
• "Sorting Out This Case Could Take The Wisdom of a Learned Hand", The Wall Street Journal, 11 November, 1996.
• "Ig-niting Controversy", The Scientist, 28 October, 1996.
• "Twitting Science," Science, October 18, 1996
• The Guardian, 12 October, 1996.
• "Ig Noble Ceremony Honors Hilarious Experiments", The Tech (MIT), 11 October, 1996.
• "Poking Fun at Science an Ig Nobel Job," Arizona Republic 10 October, 1996.
• "We are amused", Chemistry & Industry Magazine, 7 October, 1996.
• "Ig Nobel Flames", Chemistry & Industry Magazine, 7 October, 1996
• "UB RESEARCHER 'HONORED' WITH SPOOF AWARD," Buffalo News, October 6, 1996
• "Presenting the IgNobels, UnPrizes Satirizing Weak Science," New York Times, October 5, 2000.
• "Physicist is toast of irreverent alternative award", The Times (London), 4 October, 1996.
• Scripps Howard News Wire 20 Feb, 1996.
• "His Existence Questioned", The Scientist, January 1996



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• "Ad Harvard assegnati i premi Ig Nobel", Nautilus [Italy], October, 1996.
• "'Nobelprijs' voor beschuitje", De Standaard [Belgium], 5 October ,1996
• "GONORESMITTET AV DUKKE", Verdens Gang [Norway], 4 October, 1996.

Audio and Video

• National Public Radio's broadcast of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, on Science Friday, 29 November 1996. (RealAudio File).
• BBC World Service News, October 4, 1996. (960 Kb .wav file).
• C-SPAN (VIDEO of the entire ceremony), October 2, 2006

Other Sources (you'll have to search)

• "When Apple Meets Orange," The Washington Post, 17 November, 1996.
• "Science writer is the toast of spoof Nobels", The Daily Telegraph, 4 October, 1996.
• Many other news stories about AIR and the Ig Nobels are not available in electronic format. For some gifs and audio files, see George Gobel's home page.
• Articles appearing in The Scientist can be found by searching their website for the words "improbable research".

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• "You May Already be a Wiener," Scientific American, December 1995.
• "Rel rond weke cornflakes,"De Standaard [Belgian],13 November 1995.
• "TODAY'S STOP: THE ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH," Tourbus, October 19, 1995
• "Science Humor Magazine, Comic Awards Improbably Change Location,"The Scientist, 2 October 1995.
• "The Annals of Improbable Research",RAGEMagazine, 1995.
• "The private side of publishing on the Net," The Globe and Mail, 15 September 1995.
• Articles from The Scientist may be found on their site in the following gopher files (scroll down or search for "improbable research"):
        •  Jan. 9, 1995
        •  April 3, 1995
        •  June 23, 1995
        •  Oct. 30, 1995
        •  Nov. 11, 1995

• "Parse Analysis," New England Journal of Medicine, August 31, 1995
• "Kartoffelchips im Windkanal," Die Zeit, 20 August, 1995.

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• "The Anual Ig Nobel Prizes,"Scientific American, December 1994.
• The Ig's on Science Friday, 25 November 1994 (Audio file)
• "Mutiny on the Joke Journal,"Science Vol. 264, 24 June 1994.
• "'Irreproducible' Team Clones a Rival", Nature, Vol. 369 - 9 June 1994.
• "Mind and Matter - A 12-month electronic gestation leads to an old-fashoned paper birth,"The Toronto Globe and Mail, 1994.

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