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Special Issue: Children
Pre-Teen Werewolf
Big-Toe Curling
Saliva, Snot, and Sugar
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.
May We Recommend: The Heightened Danger of Noodle Soup*
Contents
Special Section: Children
Unusual Children*
Children and Walking and Toes*
What Children Dislike or Like*
Children Chewing*
Saliva, Snot and Sugar*
Improbable Research Reviews
Improbable Research: Achievers, Elastics, Stool Gazers*
Medical: Teeth, Hula-Hoops, Toad-Kissing*
Babinski Sign and a History of Hammers*
Icky Cutesy Research Review: Wolf and Leech*
Ig® and Beyond: Compulsive Whistling, Maggots on Pizza*
News & Notes
AIR Vents (letters from our readers): Impossible Events, March of Time
Teachers’Guide
Ig Nobel Limericks: Levitating Frogs, Incompetence Unawareness*
Editorial Board
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
The upraised big toe—the Babinski sign—evident in a child, in a Renaissance painting. See page 11 and page 22.
On the Back Cover
An unidentified man stands inside a spiracle on a lava field near Laxamyri Iceland,1893.
Where There’s More
There’s always new improbable — it’s not what you expect! — stuff on the Improbable Research blog at IMPROBABLE.COM