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Annals of Improbable Research JULY | AUGUST 2014 (vol 20, number 4)

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Special Issue: Chewing Gum

Psycho-Dynamics of Chewing
Effect of Gum Chewing on Typing
Chewing Gum and Youths…

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: Chewing Gum

Psycho-Dynamics of Chewing* – Katherine Lee
Some Tentative Cognitive Effects of Chewing Gum* – Katherine Lee
Chewing Gum and Youths* – Katherine Lee
Chewing Gum Research Review* – Katherine Lee

Improbable Research Reviews*

Improbable Research Review* – Dirk Manley
Improbable Medical Review* – Bertha Vanatian
Improbable Sex* – Marc Abrahams
Soft Is Hard* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
Plucked From Obscurity: Induce Sleep by Restricting Blood Supply to One’s Head* – Marina Tsipis
Icky Cutesy Research Review* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
May We Recommend: Equipment That Cannot Do What We Want – Stephen Drew
Ig® and Beyond: Bees, Fish, Music and Whiskey* – Nan Swift
Boys Will Be Boys* – Katherine Lee

News & Notes

Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony info
AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
Editorial Board
Improbable Research Books
KIM CARTOON: “Pedantic aliens” – Nick Kim
Teachers’ Guide
Subscriptions and eBooks for You and Your Colleagues
Ig® Nobel Limericks: Multitudinous Authors, Jerk, and Intestinal Clog* – Martin Eiger
Puzzling Solutions – Emil Filterbag
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads

On the Front Cover

Single stick of chewing gum, prior to use in a chewing experiment.

On the Back Cover

Some of the controls in the control room of the German UB110 submarine. The photograph is from approximately 1918.

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