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Special Issue: Haphazard
Motorcycle and Donkeys
Flower Pot on the Head
Necrophilia and the Law…
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: Haphazard
What’s in an ‘O’?*
Donkeys Research Review: The Motorcycle and Two Donkeys Incident*
Necrophilia and the Law*
Legal Subtleties: ALL CAPS and Burglaries*
Criminal Expertise: Gunfighters, Burglars, Thieves, Perfect Murderers*
Education Research Review: Cookie-Influenced Misadjustment*
Habits and Public Health: Swimming Pools and Toilets*
Medical Eccentrics: Tooth/Bullet, Lice*
Improbable Research Reviews
Medical: Flower Pot on the Head*
Improbable Research: Outrageous Events*
May We Recommend: Salivating Over PowerPoint*
Icky Cutesy Research Review: Cat Got Your Lung?*
Ig® and Beyond: Shrunken Heads, Shorter Referees*
News & Notes
AIR Vents (letters from our readers): Familially and Pleasurable
Ig Nobel Limericks: Income, Kiss, Brows*
Teachers’Guide
Editorial Board
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Miscellany in the basement storage facility in the Natural History Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. Photo: A.S. Kaswell.
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