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Special Issue: Forensics
Corpse Airdrop
Death by Zuccini
How to Do a Perfect Murder
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: Forensics
May We Recommend: Historic Dropping of a Body from an Aeroplane
Forensic Techniques: Corpses, Coconuts, and TV*
Medical: Sniffles, Bikes, and Bullets*
Dental Research: Dentures, Death, and Selfies*
Pubic Hair Forensics*
Intriguing Deaths
Potent, Backfiring Alarms*
Icky Cutesy Research Review: Pyramid Collapse, Bored to Death*
Dogs Research: Dog Bite (Dead) Man*
Cats Research: Do Cats Eat Human Remains?*
Improbable Research Reviews
Improbable Research: Audience Odor, Sea Legs*
Ig® and Beyond: Young Cheater Barriers, Legal Obscurity Defense*
News & Notes
AIR Vents (letters from our readers): Unhanded Pope, Slow-Thumpers
Teachers’Guide
Ig Nobel Limericks: Un-thinking Crime, Un-testing Pollution*
Editorial Board
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Symbolic depiction of a waiter delivering a measure of justice, even while several hands tip the scale. Photo: A.S. Kaswell