The Best of Annals of Improbable Research
by Marc Abrahams
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The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is often desribed as the Mad Magazine of Science. It is a bi-monthly magazine and an Internet Website. It is best known for hosting the Ig Nobel ceremony, honouring real scientists who have conducted funded research, yet whose achievements cannot and should not be reproduced.Tags
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I couldn't stop laughing. Probably not so much fun if you're not secretly a science geek.
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Marc Abrahams is the editor and cofounder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), its online counterpart, and the monthly e-newsletter mini-AIR. The father and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University, Abrahams has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard. He lives in show more Cambridge, Massachusetts show less
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- Canonical title
- The Best of Annals of Improbable Research
- Original title
- The Best of Annals of Improbable Research
- Alternate titles
- Best of AIR
- Original publication date
- 1997
- First words
- The Annals of Improbable Research, also known as AIR, is many things.
- Blurbers
- Magliozzi, Tom; Magliozzi, Ray; Flatow, Ira; Herschbach, Dudley; Gardner, Martin; Rennie, John (show all 9); Lipscomb, William; Roberts, Richard; Stipp, David
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 502.07 — Natural sciences & mathematics Science Miscellany
- LCC
- Q172 .B47 — Science Science (General) General
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 164
- Popularity
- 199,025
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.75)
- Languages
- English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
