| Annals of Improbable Research | | | | Discipline | scientific satire | | Language | English | | Abbreviated title | AIR | | Publisher (country) | (USA) | | Publication history | 1994 to present | | Website | Content URL Informational URL Image File history File links Cover_Annals_of_Improbable_Research. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
| | ISSN | | The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a monthly magazine devoted to scientific humour, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal. In each issue, AIR usually showcases at least one actual piece of scientific research being done on a very strange topic, but most of their articles concern real or fictional absurd experiments, such as a comparison of apples and oranges using infrared spectroscopy. Other features include ratings of the cafeterias at scientific institutes. AIR awards the Ig Nobel Prizes for "results that cannot or should not be reproduced". ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ...
A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ...
Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...
Some different types of apples Apples and oranges refers to the idiom comparing apples and oranges, which is used to indicate that two items or groups of items have not been validly compared. ...
IR spectrum of a thin film of liquid ethanol. ...
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early fall — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. ...
AIR is not the first science parody magazine. The Journal of Irreproducible Results was founded by Alex Kohn and Harry Lipkin in 1955, but most of its editorial staff, including Editor Marc Abrahams, split after the magazine was bought by publisher George Scherr in 1994. Scherr filed a number of court actions against AIR, alleging that it was deceptively similar to the Journal and that it had stolen the name "Ig Nobel Prize," but these actions were unsuccessful. The Journal of Irreproducible Results is a magazine of science humor, published in San Mateo, California as of 2004. ...
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
AIR got some unexpected attention from American military intelligence when a copy of one of their articles was found among other papers in an abandoned terrorist headquarters in the Middle East. The article was a highly unrealistic and farcical explanation of how to build a nuclear weapon that some unwitting Al Qaida member had filed away for unknown reasons. Nonetheless the discovery prompted a short-lived official investigation of AIR. Military intelligence (abbreviated MI, int. ...
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant - yet often possible - situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ...
Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...
The AIR website ("HotAIR") is the most popular science/humor site on the net, according to both Yahoo [1] and Google [2].
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