What are your pet fears? The review column “Cats Research: Do Cats Eat Human Remains?” is a but one of many featured items in the special Forensics issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. The article is free to download:
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Pubic Hair Forensics (Improbable Research)
The review column “Public Hair Forensics” is a but one of many featured items in the special Forensics issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. The article is free to download:
Ways to use the special FORENSICS issue
“Ways to Use This Issue” is a featured article in the special Forensics issue (volume 27, number 2) of the Annals of Improbable Research. This article is free to download: Here’s a shorthand version of what’s in that article: Write a limerick about one of the cited studies…. Write a long-single-sentence short story that includes the titles of […]
Improbable Research: Special Forensics issue
The special FORENSICS issue (volume 27, number 2) of the magazine, Annals of Improbable Research is now out and about. It sports a special filmy noir cover design:
Ways to Use the Chocolate Issue
“Ways to Use This Issue” is a featured article in the special Chocolate issue (volume 27, number 1) of the Annals of Improbable Research. This article is free to download: Here’s a shorthand version of what’s in that article: Write a limerick about one of the cited studies…. Write a long-single-sentence short story that includes the titles of […]
Depression and Chocolate
“Depression and Chocolate” is a featured article in the special Chocolate issue (volume 27, number 1) of the Annals of Improbable Research. This article is free to download: The article highlights several research studies about the search for delicious mood management methods.
Protecting Large Hollow Chocolate Bunnies
“Protecting Large Hollow Chocolate Bunnies” is a featured article in the special Chocolate issue (volume 27, number 1) of the Annals of Improbable Research. This article is free to download: The article begins: “There are few peer-reviewed papers on the subject of designing and testing an improved packaging for large hollow chocolate bunnies. Of these, […]
The Wasted Chewing Gum Bacteriome and the Emperors
“Improbable Research: Wasted Gum, Imperiled Emperors, Hair-worn Steel” is one of the non-Ig-Nobel columns in the special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 26, no. 6) of the magazine. Highlights of that column in this issue: The Wasted Chewing Gum Bacteriome, and Statistical Reliability Analysis for a Most Dangerous Occupation: Roman Emperor. Here’s the front cover of […]
Inside (and also outside) Details of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
Lavish and copious details about the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony dominate the special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 26, no. 6) of the magazine. (The issue contains other stuff, too!) Here’s the front cover of the magazine issue:
Get thee down a rabbit hole…
The special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 26, no. 6) of the magazine includes a new kind of guide, in addition to [A] the lavish details about the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and [B] other stuff. The new guide is called “Ways to Use This Magazine. The ways include: Write a limerick about […]