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Special Issue: Cats (and Dogs)
Comparative Meows,
Cat Rolling, Analyzed,
The Paradox of the 1,001 Cats…
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: Cats (and Dogs)
Comparative Meows* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Cats Research Review* – Stephen Drew
Cats and Dogs Research Review* – Csikszentmihalyi Aeiou
Cat Predation in England* – Nan Swift
The Rolling of Domestic Cats* – Marc Abrahams
Improbable Research*
Is This Article Consistent With Hinchliffe’s Rule?* – Stuart Shieber
Improbable Research Reviews*
Improbable Research Review* – Dirk Manley
Improbable Medical Review*– Bertha Vanatian
Boys Will Be Boys* – Katherine Lee
Soft Is Hard* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango
Improbable Sex* – Marc Abrahams
Icky Cutesy Research Review* – Alice Shirrell Kaswell
May We Recommend: Microorganism Billiards* – Stephen Drew
News & Notes
New! Improbable Research Weekly Podcast and The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
Teachers’ Guide
Editorial Board
AIR Books
Puzzling Solutions: Heads! – Emil Filterbag
Ig® Nobel Limericks: Sex, Knots, and Ostriches* – Martin Eiger
Subscriptions and eBooks for You and Your Colleagues
KIM CARTOON: “Time Flies” – Nick Kim
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
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A cat.
On the Back Cover
Two volunteers in an experiment to try to determine the effects of coffee-drinking on body size, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015. Photo: A.S. Kaswell, Improbable Research staff.