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Special Issue: Paradoxes
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:
Behavior Paradoxes*
Body Hole Parts Paradoxes: Oddi Sphincter, Fallible Phallus*
Cat Paradoxes*
Food and Drink Paradoxes: Ice Cream, Roaches, Feast, Fondue, Guilt*
Hot Dog Cost in Minutes of Life Lost*
Paradoxes Research Review*
Thoughtful Paradoxes: Zenos’s Paradox & Stupidity*
Pushers and Intruders in the Midst of Crowds*
Improbable Research Reviews*
May We Recommend: Coffee Mouth Rinsing*
Boys Will Be Boys: Pleasure, Do-It-Yourself, Pupils*
Medical Research: Missing Anus, Avocado, Barber Ants*
Improbable Research Review: Dot Dissing, Sweat & Gender,
Grasshopper*
Icky Cutesy Research: Denture, Cuteness, Flies*
Ig Nobel Illustrated: Scientists’ Beards, Dog Translator*
Ig® and Beyond: Stork Delivery, Egg-Crushing Bird Size*
Ig Nobel Limericks: Horses and Flies*
News & Notes
AIR Vents: Devil & Nosology, Parasites & Entrepreneurs
Teachers’ Guide
AIR books
Spot-the-Typos Contost
Unclassified Ads
Back Issues
On the Front Cover
A graphical depiction of Zeno’s paradox.
Some Coming Events
March/April 2025 — Ig Nobel EuroTour
May 23rd-26th, 2025 — Balticon, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
May 28, 2025 — Washington, D.C., USA
Date TBD — CALPACS, Santa Barbara, California, USA
September 2025 — The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
September 2025 — Ig Nobel Face-to-Face
November 7-9, 2025 — Falling Walls, Berlin Germany