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Special Issue: Morbid
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:
Butt Death Research*
Life and/or Death*
Dead Reckoning Research*
Morbid Research Review: Lightning, Sky, Serial, Dolls*
Morbid Curiosity*
Morbid Animal Research*
Morbid Plant Research*
Old and Young*
Curiosity and Cats*
Substances After Death*
Improbable Research Reviews*
May We Recommend: The Blow-Up-the-Garage-To-Save-the-Car Experiments*
Improbable Research: Push/Pull, Glitter, Endless Forms*
Medical Research: Teeth Usage, Railway Droplets, Throat Pens*
Ig® and Beyond: Backward Swimming, Last Meals*
Ig Nobel Limericks: Cockroach, Wheel*
News & Notes
AIR Vents: Raven’s Ruminations, Moving Parts
AIR Books
Teachers’ Guide
On the Front Cover
Photo of a squirrel that died after getting its head stuck in a ball. This taxidermy specimen is stored in the Det Grønne Museum in Auning, Denmark. Photo: Kees Moeliker.
On the Back Cover
Photo of an abandoned bird’s nest in the mouth of a large stone sculpture of a human face hanging on the wall of “Michalangelo’s Cloister” in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome, Italy. Photo: A.S. aswell.
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
February 2025 — AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Spring 2025 — Ig Nobel EuroTour
May 23rd-26th, 2025 — Balticon, Baltimore, Maryland, USA