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Special Issue: Pizza and Popcorn
The evolution of pizza
Can Italian pizza save lives?
Popcorn-popping physics…
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.
Contents
Special Section: Pizza and Popcorn
Pizza Research Review*
The Evolution of Pizza
Italian Pizza Will Save Your Life, Maybe*
Some Medical Dangers of Pizza in Mediterranean Countries*
Some Risks of Pizza in Britain*
Popcorn Usage Research Review*
Popcorn Kernel and Flake Research*
Improbable Research Reviews*
Forensic: Death by Inglorious Means, Hooligan*
Improbable Research: Beard on Crystal, Fly in Wine*
Improbable Sex: The Postage Stamp Test / Money, Sex and Happiness*
Smoking / Drinking / Drugs: Performance of Pot-Smoking Mason Workers*
News & Notes
AIRVents (letters from our readers): Popcorny Bearcat, Buttery Man
Editorial Board
AIR Books
Puzzling Solutions: Health Problems*
Ig Nobel Limericks: Depression and Driving-TV*
Index of Special Issues
Teachers’ Guide
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Researchers have gained surprising insights from pizza, and from popcorn.
On the Back Cover
Cookies named, apparently, after the inventors of calculus— offered for sale in a supermarket in Somerville, Massachusetts. Photo: Alice Shirrell Kaswell.