Our beloved graphic designer, the modest and sublime Geri Sullivan, is retiring. We at the magazine Annals of Improbable Research are looking for an improbably great graphic designer to join our gang. The main duty is to lay out each of the six new issues we create every year. (One of those six issues focuses […]
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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 […]
Recent progress in ‘IKEA catalogue’ studies
The cultural, artistic and linguistic implications (and more) of the IKEA catalogue have not been overlooked by academia. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of some relevant publications over the last 10 years or so. • Neoliberalism in your living room: A spatial cognitive reading of home design in IKEA catalogue • Presupposition based on IKEA catalogue […]
Hot Rod Magazines — A harmless diversion for teens? [podcast 72]
The danger posed by reading hot rod magazines — in the opinion of at least one English teacher — screeches, metaphorically, throughout this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Harvard physics professor Melissa Franklin — tells about: The danger from Hot Rod Magazines— “Hot Rod Magazines: A […]
OUR IMPROBABLE FUTURE: PDFs Will Replace Paper
UPDATE (October 2015): We have now converted the magazine to PDFs. No more paper! You can now subscribe to the PDF edition of the magazine. (The November/December 2015 issue will be the final issue that we also publish on paper — all new issues after that will be exclusively in PDF form!) * [Here, below, is the […]