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Here are some notable items published in the magazine and elsewhere, and troves of material from the early years (1995-2005) of this web site, and bits of our earlier work that appeared elsewher. In fairly random order, here are:
- Some Classic Articles Published in the Magazine
- Troves from the early years of this web site
- Other Classics by Our Founders and Staff
- A hodgepodge of links suggested long ago by readers
- HISTORICAL WHATNOT: The Loopy Lawsuit
NOTE: Since early 2006, we’ve been publishing most
of our new web content in blog form.
Some Classic Articles Published in the Magazine
- Apples and Oranges — A Comparison
- The Taxonomy of Barney
- Scientific Dining: Review of Blackford Hall, Cold Spring Harbor
- Family Trees for Clones
- An Astrology Chart for Bacteria
- How To Write A Scientific Paper
- Does It Rain More Often on Weekends?
- Tastes Like Chicken
- Does a Cat Always Land on Its Feet?
- What Are They Doing? (Psychology)
- The Need for Double-Strength Placebos
- The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome
- Postal Experiments
- To Make Love as a Testee
- Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
- Tenureclocky
- Cloning of the Zucchini Opiate Receptor
- The Effect of Television on Sexual Behavior
- The Cosmic Finger of Friendship
- Questions From the Chinese Translator
- The Sleep-Retardant Properties of My Ex-Girlfriend
- Like Treats Like
- Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics, Translated
- Dead As a Doornail
- Trinkaus — An Informal Look
- Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake
- Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg?
- The Fastest Man on Earth (The Birth of Murphy’s Law)
- How to Get Girls Interested in Science
- Integrated Pest Management of Manifestations as Infestations
- The Morphology of Steve
- Esther the Cold War Kitty
- The Atkins Diet Opera
- Textbook Disclaimer Stickers
- On Yawning; or, The Hidden Sexuality of the Human Yawn
- The Lost Theorems of Kakutani
- Assessing Gluteal Hardness in Uniformed Security Guards
- “Toll House” Recipe Cookies Do Not Maintain Their Morphology Under Heat Stress Conditions
- Sluggish Data Transport Is Faster Than ADSL
- How to Write a Love Letter
- Stock Market Behavior Predicted by Rat Neurons
- Anatomy of the Centaur
- Chicken Chicken Chicken
- Cartozoology
- How to Cater a Roman Orgy
- Horse Calculus
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Feline Reactions to Bearded Men (etc.)
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- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men (the original report)
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men of Beard Type #55G
- Web User Reactions to Bearded Men
- Adult Human Male Reactions to Boxing Felines
- For additional reports, see the Nov/Dec 1999 issue and many subsequent issues of the magazine
- Canine Reactions to the Mona Lisa
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Troves from the early years of this web site
Here lie many things: news items and features / unauthorized teaching materials / The Bureaucracy Club / Projects & Surveys / Universal History project / Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Other Classics by Our Founders and Staff
(NOTE: We have a big backlog from which we may add to this sporadically.)
Classic Articles From the AIR Vault
- The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth
- Infectious Diseases In Bricks
- The Abortion Controversy
- Titular Dominance in I Love Lucy
- PROOF READERS’ UPDATE — The Four Color Map Theorem
- The Lighter Side of Coffee
- The Black Hole of Calcutta
- Scheduled Earthquakes
- The Psychology of Repetitive Reading
- Virtual Academia—Year 1 Report
- The Psychology of Repetitive Reading
- The Psychology of Repetitive Reading
- INTERVIEW: Martin Fleischmann, Cold Fusion Pioneer
- A Grand Unified Theory of Everything in Nature
- Referential Ethics
- A Decade of Burnt Food — / Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 /
Nobel Interviews From the AIR Vault
- NOBEL THOUGHTS. Interviews with: / Sheldon Glashow / Dudley Herschbach / Eric Chivian / Jerome Friedman / Stanley Cohen / Fred Robbins / Henry Kendall / James Watson / Simon van der Meer / Joseph Murray / Jan Tinbergen / David Baltimore / Leon Lederman / …
Legendary Personalities, From the AIR Vault
- IN MEMORIUM: / Howard J. Brannd, The Father of Psychoterminology / Raul de Womynn, The Father of Desensification / Elrod Hibbard /
- Accusations Haunt the Legacy of Dr. Bruttelheim
- Vellum Manikowski, the ‘Cosmic Pie’ Man
Murder Mysteries From the AIR Vault
- The Bertrand Russell Murder Mysteries — / Episode IV / Episode V / Episode VI / Episode VII /
Scientific Gossip From the AIR Vault
Puzzler Solutions From the AIR Vault (NOTE: AIR has never, ever, published a Puzzler)
- Puzzler Solutions [NOTE: We never, ever publish the Puzzler] — / 36-1 / 36-2 / 36-3 / 36-4 / 36-5 / 36-6 / 37-1 / 37-4 / 37-5 / 37-6 / …
Recommended Citations From the AIR Vault
AIR Vents (letters from our readers) From the AIR Vault
- AIR Vents — / Accidental Data / 36-1 / 36-3 / and more 36-3 / The Lugnut Letters 1 (of 2) / The Lugnut Letters 2 / 37-1 / …
Technology Updates From the AIR Vault
- New Approaches to Smoke
- The Hand-Held Optical Scanner
- Intelligent Liquids
- The Hair Recorder
- The Drain Brain
- The Ersatz Drinking Cup
- Biodegradable Nuts
- Condensed Books
Classics by Alex Kohn (AIR’s co-founder)
- How To Make a Scientific Lecture Unbearable
- Peculiar Relationships Between Authors and the Subject of Their Studies
- NO-Acetol –a novel form of birth control
A few highlights from Marc Abrahams (AIR’s editor and co-founder)’s late, possibly lamented columns in Byte and Design News)
- Apoptosis — programmed cell phone death
- Utra Testing — how klutzes are immensely valuable
- Get All Wound Up — how design engineers can save the world