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Special Issue: Centrifugal Research
Spinning an Ant
Centrifugal Birthing Research
Centrifuging Mental Patients…
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: Centrifugal Research
Pre-Blonsky, Post-Blonsky, and Non-Blonsky Devices* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Centrifugal Research Review* – Katherine Lee
Centrifuging Mental Patients* – Nan Swift
Improbable Research Reviews*
Improbable Research Review* – Dirk Manley
Improbable Medical Review* – Bertha Vanatian
Plucked From Obscurity: Insect Dissuasion Device* – Marina Tsipis
Icky Cutesy Research Review* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
May We Recommend: Chicken Slaughter With and Without Name Speaking* – Stephen Drew
Soft Is Hard* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
Improbable Sex* – Marc Abrahams
Ig® and Beyond: Molluscs on Prozac, Spouse at a Cocktail Party* – Nan Swift
Boys Will Be Boys* – Katherine Lee
News & Notes
Ig Nobel and Improbable Research Books
AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
Editorial Board
Formerly Dead Lal Bihari Meets Fellow Ig Nobel Winners* – Kees Moeliker
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony info
KIM CARTOON: “Rutherford” – Nick Kim
Teachers’ Guide
Ig® Nobel Limericks: Limberger, Time Flees, and Alien Kidnap Reporters* – Martin Eiger
Subscriptions and eBooks for You and Your Colleagues
Puzzling Solutions – Emil Filterbag
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Drawing from a patent for a human-powered machine designed to spin humans.
On the Back Cover
A drawing showing the Tower of Babel and the earth, from Athanasius Kircher’s book Turris Babel (Amsterdam, 1679). (Thanks to John Ptak for bringing this to our attention.)