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Special Issue: Sneezing, Coughing, Nose-Blowing
Blowing: Britain vs. Japan,
Suppressed Sneezing,
Coughing in Social Settings…
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: Sneezing, Coughing, Nose-Blowing
Attempts to Understand Sneezes*
How Often Do Normal Persons Sneeze and Blow the Nose?*
Nose Blowing in Britain*
Nose Blowing in Japan*
Medical Dangers of Sneezing*
Engineering Against Coughing and Sneezing*
Coughing in Formal Social Settings*
Effects of Sneezing On and in Sex*
Cough, Sniff, and the Anal Reflex*
Cringe-Inducing Sunlight and Sneezes*
Sneezing Advice for Doctors*
Nose Blowing Pressures and Pronounciation*
Improbable Research Reviews*
Improbable Research: Salt Shakers and Ants*
Medical: When the Doc is Away; Dog Do?*
Improbable Sex: Attractiveness and Conjugation*
May We Recommend: Oh, Man*
Boys Will Be Boys: Dr. Shafik’s Anorectal Legacy*
Ig and Beyond: Adapting to Lying, Walking a Tightrope*
Icky Cutesy: Tic-Tac-Toe for Mutilation*
Dogs: What People and Their Dogs Share*
Cats: When Fat Cats Diet*
News & Notes
AIRVents (letters from our readers): Internalized Ma, Queasy Fish
Editorial Board
Puzzling Solutions: Handy
Ig® Nobel Limericks: From the Gut, in Chunks and Song*
Index of Special Issues
Teachers’ Guide
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Attempts to see a sneeze, and to suppress one.
On the Back Cover
An image from the study “The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group,” Vi Hart and Henry Segerman, arXiv 1404.6596v1, April 26, 2014.