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Buenas...
Si recordais que comente el asunto de una revista satirica de los cientificos
el otro dia, en mi e-mail comentando lo del el seņor Ros en La Reserche.
Pues bien aqui podeis encontrar la renovada revista, antes "Journal of
Irreproductibles Results" ahora "The Annals of Improbable Research".
Salu2...
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Coordinador Gnl:
EDUARDO ZOTES SARMIENTO
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> De: Marc A. Abrahams <marca en cybercom.net>
> A: diotalle en jet.es
> Asunto: [diotalle en jet.es: MINI-JIR]
> Fecha: viernes 12 de septiembre de 1997 7:49
>
>
>
> Eduardo --
>
> I was the editor of The Journal of Irrpr. Res. from 1990-94.
> In 1994, after years of difficulties with the publishers,
> the founders and I and all the otehr editorial people (1955-1994)
> left, and we started a brand new magazine: Annals of Improbable Research.
>
> Complete info is appended below. I hope yuo will join us!
>
> Sincerely and improbably,
>
> Marc
>
> ==============================================================
> Marc Abrahams, editor
> The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
> PO Box 380853, Cambridge MA 02238 USA
> 617-491-4437 FAX:617-661-0927
> Editorial: marca en wilson.harvard.edu http://www.improb.com/
> General Info (supplied automatically): info en improb.com
> Subscriptions: air en improb.com
> ==============================================================
>
> PLEASE FORWARD/POST TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for asking about The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
> and about the Ig Nobel Prizes. This document gives a concise summary of
> what scientists have discovered about AIR.
>
> ***** For ticket and broadcast info about this year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
> ***** (and for a list of last year's winners!)
> ***** see sections 9-11 below.
> The most up-to-the-minute version of this notice
> can always be obtained by sending email to: info en improb.com
>
> ==============
> CONTENTS
> ==============
> 1. What is AIR?
> 2. What is mini-AIR?
> 3. About HOT AIR (our trendoid home page)
> 4. A Brief History of AIR
> 5. How to Subscribe to AIR
> 6. How to Receive mini-AIR, etc.
> 7. AIRhead Events
> 8. Our Addresses
> 9. The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (and a list of last year's winners)
> 10. Ig Nobel AUDIENCE DELEGATIONS -- basic info
> 11. Ig Nobel INDIVIDUAL TICKETS -- basic info
>
> ===================
> 1. What is AIR?
> ===================
> The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a splendidly subversive
> science humor magazine, published six times per year. AIR is
> written by AIRhead research scientists and other AIRheads from
> around the world.
>
> ----
> WIRED Magazine said "AIR is one of the finest contributions
> to western civilization.... AIR exposes the soft underbelly of science --
> and gives it a damn good tickling.... You can't afford to be left out."
> ----
> THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC said "The Annals of Improbable Research is a delightful
> publication that manages to both deflate the seriousness of science
> and promote the importance of science at the same time."
> ----
> The WASHINGTON POST said AIR is an "excellent magazine... in what
> is surely a golden age for the species."
> ----
>
> Some of AIR's recent research reports:
> The taxonomy of Barney
> A spectrographic comparison of apples and oranges
> Reviews of cafeterias at Cold Spring Harbor Lab and at
> the General Motors R&D facility
> An analysis of DNA perfume
> Experimental findings of how much wood a woodchuck could chuck
> if a woodchuck could chuck wood
>
> Some of AIR's regular features:
> Offbeat Interviews with Nobel Laureates.
> "AIRhead Research Review"
> "AIRhead Medical Review"
> "AIRhead Legal Review"
> "Cindy Crawford Discovers" (reviews of scientific discoveries that are
> reported in the research journals Vogue, Seventeen, etc.)
> AIRhead Project 2000 (an ever-growing collection of products, reports
> and projects whose names include the number 2000)
> Poetry (such as "Fifty Ways to Love Your Liver")
> Ask Symmetra (advice from scientist/supermodel Symmetra)
> Solution to the Puzzler (however, we never publish a puzzler)
>
> AIR is also famous for publishing:
> a) extracts from genuine and -- genuinely improbable -- reports
> from the world's 10,000 scientific and medical
> research journals.
> b) genuine yet endearingly bizarre photomicrographs,
> X-rays and space photographs.
>
> (Subscription details below)
>
>
> ========================
> 2. What is mini-AIR?
> ========================
> mini-AIR is our monthly electronic newsletter of tidbits too tiny
> to fit in AIR itself. mini-AIR is distributed (free!) over the Internet.
> (details below on how to add yourself to the distribution list)
>
>
> ==============================================
> 3. About HOT AIR (our trendoid home page)
> ==============================================
> Hot AIR is our celebrated trendoid home page on the World Wide Web.
> It is located at http://www.improb.com/
> For the next several decades it will be undergoing major reconstruction,
> especially on such projects as: the Gallery of Bearded Men; the
> AIRhead Project 2000 archives; the special Ig Nobel retrogravure section;
> and other AIRhead features.
>
>
> ===============================
> 4. A Brief History of AIR
> ===============================
> AIR was founded by the entire former editorial staff (1955-1994)
> of "The Journal of Irreproducible Results" and by other research
> scientists and other AIRheads from around the world. AIR's co-
> founders are Marc Abrahams, who edited the Journal from 1990-1994,
> and Alexander Kohn, who co-founded the Journal in 1955 and was its
> editor until 1989. AIR's editorial board consists of more than 40
> distinguished scientists from around the world, including seven
> Nobel Laureates, Marilyn Vos Savant (possessor of the world's
> highest measured IQ), and a convicted felon.
> [IMPORTANT: The Annals of Improbable Research is IN NO WAY associated
> with the name "The Journal of Irreproducible Results" or with the entity
> that now owns the rights to that name.]
>
>
> ==============================
> 5. How to Subscribe to AIR
> ==============================
> Officially become an AIRhead.
> Amaze your colleagues. Delight your friends. Impress yourself.
> Subscribe to The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)!
>
> Put more AIR in the lab, the classroom, the office, the waiting
> room, the library, the living room, the restroom, ...the detention
> center. And AIR makes a lovely gift of the most unexpected kind.
> 6 issues per year. Highly enriched, yet contains no cholesterol.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Rates (in US dollars)
> USA 1 year - $23 2 years - $39
> Canada/Mexico 1 year - $27 2 years - $45
> Overseas 1 year - $40 2 years - $70
>
> Send payment (US check or international money order,
> or Mastercard, Visa or Discover card) to:
> The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
> PO Box 380853
> Cambridge, MA 02238 USA
> 617-491-4437
> FAX: 617-661-0927
> air en improb.com
>
> Back issues are available:
> per copy: US: $8 Can/Mex: $11 Overseas: $16
> [Please note: we are sold out of issue #1.]
>
> ====================================
> 6. How to Receive mini-AIR, etc.
> ====================================
> mini-AIR is an monthly electronic newsletter of tidbits too tiny to fit
> in The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). It is available
> over the Internet, free of charge. To subscribe, send a brief E-
> mail message to LISTPROC en AIR.HARVARD.EDU
> The body of your message should contain ONLY the words:
> SUBSCRIBE MINI-AIR MARIE CURIE
> (You may substitute your own name for that of Madame Curie.)
> ----------------------------------------------------
> To stop subscribing, send the following message: SIGNOFF MINI-AIR
>
>
> ::::: AIR extracts on USENET
> The USENET newsgroup clari.tw.columns.imprb_research presents a
> syndicated weekly column of reports extracted from The Annals of
> Improbable Research. [NOTE: This is available only if your
> Internet site subscribes to the Clarinet newsgroups.]
>
> ::::: Improbable computer research in BYTE
> BYTE Magazine has a special Improbable Research column on its back page
> written by AIR's editor, Marc Abrahams.
>
>
> ========================
> 7. AIRhead Events
> ========================
>
> If you would like to host an Improbable Research seminar/slide show,
> please get in touch with us.
>
> ==> PLEASE NOTE: To check for any late updates to this schedule
> send e-mail to our automatic-reply address: info en improb.com
>
> SEVENTH FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY Thurs, Oct 9
> Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Tickets will go on sale in
> August.
>
> ANNUAL IG LECTURES Fri, Oct 10
> Harvard University. Lectures by Ig Nobel Laureates and other
> worthies.
>
> AIR Tour of North America October-Dec 1997
> Schedule to be announced. If you would like to host an event,
> please email <marca en wilson.harvard.edu>
>
>
> ======================
> 8. Our Address
> ======================
> The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
> PO Box 380853
> Cambridge, MA 02238 USA
> 617-491-4437 FAX: 617-661-0927
>
> EDITOR: Marc Abrahams <marca en wilson.harvard.edu>
> SUBSCRIPTIONS: <air en improb.com>
> GENERAL INFO: <info en improb.com>
> URL://www.improb.com/
>
> We receive far more correspondence than we can reply to,
> but we do try to read everything.
>
> If you need a reply to printed correspondence, please include
> your Internet address and/or a SASE.
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> 9. The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (and a list of last year's winners)
> ==============================================================================
>
> The Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be held
> on Thursday evening, October 9, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University.
> The Prizes will handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates Sheldon Glashow,
> Dudley Herschbach, William Lipscomb, Richard Roberts, and others.
> A good-natured spoof of science and the Nobel Prizes, the ceremony
> honors people whose achievements "cannot or should not be
> reproduced."
>
> The ceremony will be telecast live on the Internet (details will
> be posted on our web site www.improb.com), and later broadcast
> on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation/Science Friday."
>
> For info about tickets to attend the 1997 ceremony, see below.
>
> For reference, here is a list of LAST YEAR's (1996) Ig Nobel Prize winners:
>
> BIOLOGY Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of
> Bergen, Norway, for their tasty and tasteful report, "Effect of
> Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches." [The
> report was published in "British Medical Journal," vol. 309, Dec
> 24-31, 1994, p. 1689.]
> Drs. Baerheim and Sandvik sent a videotaped acceptance speech, and
> watched the ceremony live on the Internet.
>
> MEDICINE James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S.
> Tobaccco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip
> Morris, and the late Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown
> and Williamson Tobacco Co. for their unshakable discovery, as
> testified to the US Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
>
> PHYSICS Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his
> studies of Murphy's Law, and especially for demonstrating that
> toast often falls on the buttered side. [The report, "Tumbling
> toast, Murphy's Law and the fundamental constants" was published
> in "European Journal of Physics," vol.16, no.4, July 18, 1995, p.
> 172-6.]
> Professor Matthews sent an audiotaped acceptance speech.
>
> PEACE Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the
> fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the
> Pacific.
>
> PUBLIC HEALTH Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of
> Oslo, Norway, for their cautionary medical report "Transmission of
> Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll." [The report was published
> in "Genitourinary Medicine," vol. 69, no. 4, Aug. 1993, p. 322.]
> Dr. Moi traveled from Oslo to Cambridge -- at his own expense --
> to accept the Prize. While in Massachusetts also delivered a
> lecture at Harvard Medical School about his achievement.
>
> CHEMISTRY George Goble of Purdue University, for his blistering
> world record time for igniting a barbeque grill-three seconds,
> using charcoal and liquid oxygen.
> Professor Goble's colleague Joe Cychosz traveled to Cambridge to
> accept the Prize.
>
> BIODIVERSITY Chonosuke Okamura of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory
> in Nagoya, Japan, for discovering the fossils of dinosaurs,
> horses, dragons, princesses, and more than 1000 other extinct
> "mini-species," each of which is less than 1/100 of an inch in
> length. [For details see the series "Reports of the Okamura Fossil
> Laboratory," published by the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya,
> Japan during the 1970's and 1980's.]
>
> LITERATURE The editors of the journal "Social Text," for eagerly
> publishing research that they could not understand, that the
> author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does
> not exist. [The paper was "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a
> Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," Alan Sokal,
> "Social Text," Spring/Summer 1996, pp. 217-252.]
>
> ECONOMICS Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo for
> his discovery that "financial strain is a risk indicator for
> destructive periodontal disease."
>
> ART Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his
> ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo.
> Mr. Featherstone is traveled to Cambridge to accept the Prize.
>
> ***** And --and!-- you can hear an edited recording of last year's ceremony
> ***** by visiting the "NPR Science Friday" web site at
> ***** http://www.npr.org/programs/sfkids/showarchive/sfkc.96.11.29.html
> ***** The Ig starts at an offset of 49 minutes into the recording.
> ***** (Alas , the mini-opera "Lament del Cockroach" is not included in
> ***** the SciFri recording)
>
>
> ====================================================
> 10. Ig Nobel AUDIENCE DELEGATIONS -- basic info
> ====================================================
>
> The audience of 1200 is composed of:
> * individual ticket holders
> * organized groups called DELEGATIONS.
>
> This section describes how to form an official delegation.
> Info about how to obtain individual tickets is in the next section.
> -----
> Each OFFICIAL DELEGATION represents a single entity or idea and may
> represent a department, research lab, campus group, private company,
> government, prison, and/or concept (e.g., Non-extremists for Moderate
> Change from Finland). They are recognized at the start of the ceremony and
> use props/costumes (e.g., masks, candelabra, placards) which help identify
> them. Each delegation is responsible and culpable for its own native costuming,
> props, signs, and intellectually stimulating chants. Fire is not allowed.
> Shoes are mandatory.
>
> OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS are assured of a place in the auditorium. The total
> number of seats for OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS is limited.
> Each delegation consists of 4 to 12 people (no more, no
> less); please assign one head honcho for your delegation.
>
> Completed delegation applications must be _received_ by Tuesday, September 23,
> 1997. (No email, no extensions, no refunds, no compassion.)
>
> For details about OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS, email or call Margaret Ann
> (mag en mit.edu or 617-253-0217), Ed (eaj en mit.edu or
> 617-253-5030), or Dee (deedc en mit.edu or 617-253-5543).
>
>
> ===================================================
> 11. Ig Nobel INDIVIDUAL TICKETS -- basic info
> ===================================================
>
> Tickets for individuals (as contrasted with OFFICIAL
> DELEGATIONS) are available ONLY from the Sanders Theatre Box Office
> (Phone: 617-496-2222; TTY 495-1642).
>
> Information about all aspects of the Ig Nobel
> Prize ceremony will be posted at http://www.improb.com and will be
> available automatically from <info en improb.com>.
>
>
> ===================================================================
>