Annals of Improbable Research

MARCH | APRIL 2010 (volume 16, number 2)

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Special Issue: Geography & Teabagging

Cartozoology,
Panhanling Geography,
Teabagging Research...

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: Geography & Teabagging

Oklahoma and Texas Look Almost Like a Cooking Pan* — Xingjian Liu, Tinghua Ai and Yaolin Liu
Cartozoology* — Eilert Sundt
Teabagging Research Review* — Alice Shirell Kaswell
Teabagging: Removing the Sog* — Alice Shirell Kaswell

Improbable Research Reviews*

May We Recommend* — Stephen Drew
Improbable Research Review* — Dirk Manley
Improbable Medical Review* — Bertha Vanatian
Plucked From Obscurity: Screw-In Coffin* — Stephen Drew
Ig® and Beyond* — Nan Swift
Boys Will Be Boys* — Katherine Lee
Ptak: British Pyramid of Life, 1912* — John Ptak
Icky Cutesy Research Review* — Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Soft Is Hard* — Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Bissell Mango

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AIR Vents (letters from our readers)
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AIR Books
KIM CARTOON: “The Doorknocker’s
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Puzzling Solutions — Emil Filterbag
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On the Front Cover

Cartozoological images from a map of the city of Hammerfest, Finland. See “Cartozoology,” page 8.

On the Back Cover

Comparative lengths of the world’s rivers, and heights of its mountains, from: General Atlas Of The World: Containing Upwards Of Seventy Maps by Adam & Charles Black, Sidney Hall and William Hughes, 1854; published in Edinburgh by A & C Black.

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