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Special Issue: Ants
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.
Special Section:
Ants Research Review*
Ant Royal Incest*
Ant Psychology*
Ants in Concert*
Ants on the Move*
Ants’ Heads*
Improbable Research Reviews*
May We Recommend: Scientists Who Prefer to Stay Dry*
Icky Cutesy Research: Dating Age, Killing Ants*
Improbable Research: Male-Stuffing, Statue-Thinking*
Boys Will Be Boys: Sleep, Orgies, Blue Balls*
Ig® and Beyond: Breast Size Attractiveness, Art Bullshit*
(Also: See the article “Ants in Concert”)
Ig Nobel Limericks: Scent Strips and Pizza*
News & Notes
AIR Vents: Severed Emoji, Tea Improvement
Teachers’ Guide
AIR Books
Back Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
A collage of photos of ants. Photos by Arnstein Staverløkk and Wilferdor (under creative commons licenses).
On the Back Cover
Photo from Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, a new companion event to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Held at the new MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this event featured most of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners asking each other about their work. Ig Nobel Prizes honor things that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Video of the event is on the Improbable Research web site.
Some Coming Events
April 2024 — Ig Nobel EuroTour: GERMANY, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, SPAIN
September 2024 — 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony