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Special Issue: Italian Hand Gestures
Italian Hand Gestures,
Non-Italian Hand Gestures,
Non-Italian Non-Hand Non-Gestures…
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: Italian Hand Gestures
Italian Hand Gestures* – Stephen Drew
Non-Italian Hand Gestures* – Nan Swift
Improbable Research
Load of the (Wedding and Other) Rings* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Heterosexual Necrophilia in the Frog* — Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Improbable Research Reviews*
The 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
Improbable Research Review* – Dirk Manley
Improbable Medical Review* – Bertha Vanatian
Soft Is Hard* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
Boys Will Be Boys* – Katherine Lee
Icky Cutesy Research Review* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Leading Research: Smelly Marketing* – William Drinktea Thackeray
Ig® and Beyond: Toothbrush, Swearing* – Nan Swift
May We Recommend: Laughing Rats Are Optimistic* – Stephen Drew
News & Notes
AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
Teachers’ Guide
KIM CARTOON: “As a Species” – Nick Kim
Editorial Board
Ig® Nobel Limericks: Bats and Snot* – Martin Eiger
Puzzling Solutions – Emil Filterbag
Subscriptions and eBooks for You and Your Colleagues
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
A selection of Italian hand gestures that have caught the attention of scholars.
On the Back Cover
Artisans from Modena, Italy, demonstrate their system of working together in pairs to fix a broken set of eyeglasses, at a technology exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland, May 2013. Photo: Stephen Drew.