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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:
A Man Who Swallowed 100 Ants*
Aunts Research Review*
Humans’ Reactions to Ants*
Anting*
Ants on Drugs*
Improbable Research Reviews*
May We Recommend: Managing to Plagiarize*
Icky Cutesy Research: Graze, Farts, Dry Ice, Cat*
Improbable Research: Gummy Fingerprints, Headset Seasickness, Corporate Insecthood*
Medical Research: Plunger, Spinner, Hallucinator*
Boys Will Be Boys: Ecological Harshness, Doughtray Scraper, Laughter*
Ig® and Beyond: Whale Larynxes, Hungarian Sad Song*
Ig Nobel Limericks: Clicking, Chewing*
News & Notes
AIR Vents: Aunts, Ants, and AI
Teachers’ Guide
AIR Books
On the Front Cover
A collection of defaced book covers of books about ants.
On the Back Cover
A different collection of defaced book covers of books about ants.
Some Coming Events
September 12th, 2024 — 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (and webcast), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
September 14th, 2024 — Ig Nobel Face-to-face, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Spring 2025 — Ig Nobel EuroTour
May 23rd-26th, 2025 — Balticon, Baltimore, Maryland, USA