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The mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
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Issue Number 1994-08
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December, 1994
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ISSN 1076-500X
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Key words: science,humor,improbable research,Ig Nobel
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The mini-journal of inflated research and personalities
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published by The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
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at The MIT Museum
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1994-08-01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1994-08-01 Table of Contents
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1994-08-02 AIRhead News Flashes and Flushes
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1994-08-03 Sad News: Alex Kohn Has Passed Away
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1994-08-04 Vos Savant Slated to Sip Soup at Ceremony
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1994-08-05 Robin Leach / Rich & Famous / Food
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1994-08-05 AIRhead Time Caplet: Contest Winners
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1994-08-06 Further Selected Abstracts from AIR vol. 1, no. 1
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1994-08-07 AIRhead Project 2000: preliminary results
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1994-08-08 Ancient Rocketry?
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1994-08-09 May We Recommend...
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1994-08-10 Musical Advice to Christmas Shoppers
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1994-08-11 Slide Rule Surprise
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1994-08-12 AIRhead Events
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1994-08-13 Calls for Papers
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1994-08-14 What is AIR? (*)
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1994-08-15 How to Subscribe to AIR(*)
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1994-08-16 How to Receive to mini-AIR, etc.(*)
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1994-08-17 AIR's Mailing and Internet Addresses (*)
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1994-08-18 Please DO make copies! (*)
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Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.
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1994-08-02 AIRhead News Flashes and Flushes
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1. In the November issue we reported that many readers had pointed
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out that the October issue of mini-AIR was mistakenly dated 1894
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rather than 1894. We apologize for acknowledging our mistake.
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2. Time Caplet Update
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A time caplet was buried in 1914 by followers of Constant Desiree
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Despradelle (1862-1912). The time caplet was coated with a special
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anti-aging cream. On December 14, 1994, five Nobel Laureates and
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their acolytes will unearth & rebury the time caplet. The event
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is growing in scale, pomp and verisimilitude (see section 1994-08-
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04, 1994-08-05, and 1994-08-06 below for details). This gala no-
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questions-asked occurrence will mar the publication of the first
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issue of AIR. A copy of this valued Collectible Issue will appear
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in your home or that of a loved one within the next few weeks,
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provided that you have remembered to send in your subscription.
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(See section 1994-08-16 below for details).
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C. AIR home page is still coming
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Our World Wide Web home page is patently pending. Our Global
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Village Idiot, Amy Gorin, assures us that January will be the
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month when we reveal this home page. It will contain, among other
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data, an X-ray image from our research project on "The Taxonomy of
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Barney." Details will be announced.
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5. We have nearly completed construction of the official MIT
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Museum Public High-Vacuum Toilet Facility (there are only three
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public restrooms in Cambridge). It features six opto-electronic
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multimedia functions, including a data bank of 250 tatoos. The
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number will be increased as soon as the Internet drop is
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installed. Please stop by and try it.
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6. Acting on a tip from a reader in Hong Kong, we have obtained a
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cache of slide rules. (See section 1994-08-12 below for details.)
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1994-08-03 Sad News: Alexander Kohn Has Passed Away
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Last week Alexander Kohn died. Alex was the co-founder and
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editorial board chairman of AIR. In 1955, together with Harry
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Lipkin, he founded The Journal of Irreproducible Results, of which
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he was editor until 1989, and editor emeritus until this year,
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when we all left that magazine to create AIR. By day, Alex was an
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eminent virologist at Tel Aviv Medical School. By evening, he was
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a scholar of the history of scientific fraud. At night, often in
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the guise of Dr. X. Perry Mental, Alex produced some of the
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funniest and most literate commentaries, parodies and satires ever
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written. In coming months, AIR will reprint some of Alex's (and
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X.P. Mental's) best articles. Alex was loved and admired by many
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people in many places. Anyone who has read his work, and
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especially those of us who were lucky enough to know him
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personally, will miss Alex terribly.
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-- Marc Abrahams
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1994-08-04 Vos Savant Slated to Sip Soup at Ceremony
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AIR editorial board member Marilyn Vos Savant, possessor of the
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world's highest IQ, will be present at the ceremony, eating soup.
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At the conclusion of the ceremony, Ms. Vos Savant will hand out
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crackers to all audience members who desire them.
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1994-08-05 Robin Leach / Rich & Famous / Food
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Robin Leach, host of the noted science television programs
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"Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" and "Robin Leach Talking Food,"
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has created and sent us a special videotape (duration: 43 seconds)
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and two other items for entombment in the Time Caplet. We do not
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know why.
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1994-08-06 AIRhead Time Caplet Contest Winners, etc.
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CAPLET CONTEST WINNERS
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Our contest was to determine "What/who should be placed into the
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time caplet when we re-bury it?" A frighteningly large number of
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readers felt compelled to submit entries. Winners will receive
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nothing, because this contest was devised by AIRheads. However,
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their names and winning entries will be included in the AIR home
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page; space does not permit its inclusion here. One of the
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winning items, submitted by reader Donald Turnblade, represents
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the Internet: it is a half naked Barbie doll with fiber optic
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cables instead of doll hair.
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RESEARCH MINI-PRESENTATIONS
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Several pieces of outstanding improbable research will be mini-
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presented at the event:
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"Politically Correct Cardiology."
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"QI of IQ: A Quantum Interpretation of the Intelligence
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Quotient."
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"The Taxonomy of Barney"
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ATTENDING THE EVENT
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The event will take place at the MIT Museum, on Wednesday,
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December 14, at 6:30 pm. For details on attending the event, see
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section 1994-08-13.)
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1994-08-07 Further Selected Abstracts from AIR vol. 1, no. 1
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Following are further selected abstracts from vol. 1, no. 1, of
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The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). For full details,
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including lurid photographs and data, see the issue itself.
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"The Paradigm Paradox," Bill Schweber.
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The word "paradox" has appeared frequently in the standard
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literature since its use in a 1965 book by Thomas Kuhn.
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Occurrences are tracked year by year, and presented in chart form.
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Literature citations of the word (known as "citings of sightings")
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have decreased by 75% during the past year.
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"Einstein's Shoes" (poem), by Heather Rypkema.
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"I would not live in Einstein's Shoes, despite his noted name./
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For as I walked, each shoe would move in someone else's reference
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frame..." The author pursues this thought and reaches a logical
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conclusion.
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Sleep Research Update (who is sleeping with whom in the lab)
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Scheduled UFO Appearances
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"The Pop-Up Medical Thermometer," by Stephen Drew.
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The pop-up medical thermometer is inserted into the skin or into
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existing body apertures. The inner cylinder pops up when the
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patient's fever subsides, indicating that it is time for the
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patient to go home. The technology was originally developed for
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the poultry industry. This is its first application to
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biomedicine. [Includes photo]
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"Book Review: The Nairobi Telephone Directory," by Tim Healey.
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This reference work has been deliberately constructed so as to
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encourage the contemplative life. Some, but by no means all, names
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are listed by forename rather than surname. Alphabetical order is
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enhanced in new ways (A,B,C,D,E,S,E,M,E,F,G,...). The Classified
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Section headings invoke long chains of "see also" references,
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often ending with nonexistent sections.
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1994-08-08 AIRhead Project 2000: preliminary results
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As announced in mini-AIR 1994-02-03 (June, 1993), we are compiling
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a list of studies, projects, and products that involve the number
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two thousand. Randomly selected items from the list include:
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ITEM #0000A-71 (submitted by investigator Dave Bell)
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Infantryman AD 2000. "Jane's Military Review" reports
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that: "as visualised by Scicon Computer Systems, he would
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be armed with a two-shot vertical-launch missile system and
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a twin-barrel personal defence weapon."
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COLLECTION #309 (submitted by investigators Earle Spamer and
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Richard Clark):
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ITEM #SC908 "Wildlife 2000," edited by Jared Verner,
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Michael L. Morrison, C. John Ralph, University of
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Wisconsin Press.
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ITEM #SC909 "Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Vols. 1 and 2," by
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Hirshfeld and Sinnott, Cambridge University Press
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and Sky Publishing Corporation.
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ITEM #SC9902 "Sky Atlas 2000.0," by Wil Tirion, Sky
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Publishing Corporation.
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ITEM #SC4192 "Norton's Star Atlas 2000."
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ITEM #SC4189 "Uranometria 2000.0, Vols. 1 and 2," by Tirion,
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Rappaport and Lovi.
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ITEM #26 (Submitted by Investigator Roger H. Goun)
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Shopping2000, by ContentWare. "The largest audio
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and graphically enriched electronic mall as Internet
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shopping content."
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1994-08-09 Ancient Rocketry?
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Dervishes Not the Only Scientific Pioneers in Turkey
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by Bill Higgins
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
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mini-AIR 1994-07 (Nov. 94) mentioned[1] a Turkish scholar[3] named
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Dr. Celaddin B. Celebi, who explained the significance to physics
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of the Whirling Dervishes: "Contemporary science definitely
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confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is to
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revolve." His name rang a bell, so I went scampering for my
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history references. Could he be a relative of a seventeenth-
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century commentator, Evilya Chelebi?
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An issue of "Aerospace Historian" (Fall/September 1988) had
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"Birdmen of the Middle East: Early Attempts at Human Flight," by
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Gary Leiser, a USAF historian specializing in Islamic history.
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Leiser quotes, and so will I, from a seventeenth-century account
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by Evilya Chelebi. This supposedly happened around 1633 in
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Istanbul. (Native speakers, please pardon my slaughter of the
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transliterations!)
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"This Lagari Hasan had fabricated a seven-cylinder rocket using 50
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okkas [about 64 kg] of gunpowder compound. When the Sultan was at
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Saray Point, he got on the rocket and his apprentices lit the fuse
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of the rocket. Saying, 'My Sultan, I have recommended you to God.
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I am going to speak with the Prophet Jesus,' and, praising and
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glorifying God, he made his ascent to the highest heaven... At the
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roof of the heavens, the powder of the great rocket was exhausted
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and when it descended toward the earth, he opened the eagle wings
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that he had in his hands and landed in the water in front of the
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mansion of Sinan Pasha. He swam from there and came naked to the
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Sultan. He kissed the ground and began to joke, saying. 'My
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Sultan, the Prophet Jesus sends you his regards.'"
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Leiser doesn't believe a word of this, but he says, "Evilya's
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account does show that the Turks had the ability to make large
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rockets, that some Turks had contemplated human flight by means of
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rockets as early as the seventeenth century, and that they may
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have even experimented with such a flight."
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EDITOR'S NOTE:
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1. One incensed reader[2] sent us a letter objecting, in highly
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colorful, ethnically oriented language, to the original report,
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which was a verbatim quotation from a Turkish ethnomusicologist.
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This reader informed us that we should not identify any reports
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concerning improbable research from Turkey as being from Turkey.
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2. No pun intended.
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3. We were unable to identify the nationality of this researcher.
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1994-08-10 May We Recommend...
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Research reports that merit a trip to the library:
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"Three cases of disputed paternity in dogs resolved by the use of
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DNA fingerprinting," I.F. Hermans, J Atkinson, JF Hamilton and GK
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Chambers, "New Zealand Veterinary Journal," vol 39, no. 2, pp. 61-
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64. (Thanks to Doug Freckelton for bringing this to our
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attention.)
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"The Orthogonal-Random Waveform Dichotomy for Digital Personal
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Communications," Andrew J. Viterbi, "IEEE Personal
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Communications," vol 1, no 1, Q1, 94, pp. 18-24. (Thanks to Pat
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O'Leary for bringing this to our attention.)
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"Energy of the Closed Universe With Respect to the Gas of Clocks,"
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by N.N. Gorobey and A.S. Lukyanenko, "Classical and Quantum
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Gravity," vol. 10, no. 10, 1993, pp. 2107-2110. (Thanks to Scott
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Osborne for bringing this to our attention.)
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(We welcome your suggestions for this column. Please include full
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citations. If possible, please send us a photocopy of the paper.)
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1994-08-11 Musical Advice to Christmas Shoppers[1]
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by Harry Lipkin
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Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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Make out your Chopin Liszt early before Debussy season, when you
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have time to check out Verdi good bargains are, can still get
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gifts Faure good price, not have to Handel large crowds and have
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time to give Bach thins you decide you don't want.
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NOTE
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1. No pun not intended.
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1994-08-12 Slide Rule Surprise
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We have obtained a stash of genuine 12" slide rules. They are
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logarithmic in nature. They can be ordered via email
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(mitshop@mit.edu) or telephone (617-253-4462). The price is
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$19.95 plus $4.50 shipping/handling. The primary use of this
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instrument is to produce the following speech from your father,
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the engineer:
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"When I was your age, we didn't have one of them fancy-ass
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computers, we had to do all the calculations by hand, and
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I'll bet you don't even know what the square root of 369.72 is,
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but I can find it using this here stick, you see, now how was
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it these things worked anyway, you are supposed to line up, uh,
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something and something else, uh, well, we were real engineers
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back then, I tell you."
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Don't say you weren't warned.
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1994-08-13 AIRhead Events
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AIRhead TIME CAPLET UNEARTHING/BURIAL Wed., Dec 14, 6:30-7:45
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The event will take place at the MIT Museum.
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A VERY limited number of tickets (they are free!) will be
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available at the Student Center Museum shop ONLY the week of the
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event ONLY ONLY ONLY.
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SCIENCE WRITERS OF NY (SWINY) Thurs, Feb. 2, 6:30
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New York Academy of Science, 2 E. 63rd St., NYC
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SCIENCE DISCOVERY MUSEUM, Acton MA Tues Feb. 7, 3:30-4:30
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A hyperinteractive presentation for kids and other scientists.
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Info:617-264-4200
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NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION Feb. 17-19
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Sheraton Tara, Framingham, MA
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MENSA OF CENTRAL NJ Sat., Mar 4, 1995, 7:30
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Sheraton, Woodbridge, NJ
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Info: 908-297-5492 matray@watson.bms.com
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INTERSOCIETY POLYMER SOCIETY October 10, 1995
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Stouffer Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD
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The society recommends early reservations. Info: (518) 387-7942
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*** If you would like to host an Improbable Research Event
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*** at your conference, university, research center, company,
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*** hospital, high school, or scenic mountain vacation home,
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*** please get in touch with us.
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1994-08-14 Calls for Papers
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CALL FOR PAPERS on the topic: "Chocolate Research." Reports of
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your research RESULTS are preferred to speculative essays.
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS for the 1995 Ig Nobel Prizes. Ig Nobel Prizes
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are awarded for achievements that cannot or should not be
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reproduced. Nominations may be submitted, anonymously or
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otherwise, by e-mail or by standard mail.
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1994-08-15 WHAT IS AIR? (*)
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AIR is a new magazine produced by the entire former editorial
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staff (1955-1994) of "The Journal of Irreproducible Results
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(JIR)". The new magazine's co-founders are Marc Abrahams, who
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edited JIR from 1990-1994, and Alexander Kohn, who founded JIR in
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1955 and was its editor until 1989. AIR is published by the MIT
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Museum in Cambridge, MA. The editorial board consists of more
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than 40 distinguished scientists from around the world including
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seven Nobel Laureates. Each October, AIR and the MIT Museum
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produce the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring people whose
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achievements cannot or should not be reproduced.
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1994-08-16 How to Subscribe to AIR(*)
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Stay way ahead of what you need to know:
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The Taxonomy of Barney * A Natural History of the Articulated
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Lorry * Effectiveness of Chinese Fortune Cookies * A Review of
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the Nairobi Telephone Directory * The Aerodynamics of Potato
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Chips * The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony * Scientific Gossip *
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Nobel Thoughts (offbeat interviews with Nobel Laureates) *
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Elegant Results (reviews of cosmetics ads) * Hot Air
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(exhalations from our readers) * X-Rays of the Rich and Famous *
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and then some!
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The first issue of AIR will appear in December, 1994. Join us as
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a subscriber, and as a collaborator!
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1994-08-18 AIR's Mailing and Internet Addresses
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The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
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Editor: Marc Abrahams (marca@mit.edu)
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WWW Editor/Global Village Idiot: Amy Gorin (ringo@mit.edu)
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Technical Difficulties: Diego Garcia, Francesca Thurston
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