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| Introduction | |
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| What's an Ig? | |
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| How It Began, Briefly | |
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| How the Winners Are Chosen | |
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| The Ceremony | |
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| Controversy | |
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| How to Read This Book | |
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| Medical Breakthroughs | |
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| Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation | |
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| Nose Picking in Adolescents | |
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| Elevator Music Prevents the Common Cold | |
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| Psychology and Intelligence | |
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| A Forbidding Experiment: Spitting, Chewing Gum, and Pigeons | |
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| Ignorance Is Bliss | |
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| Economics | |
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| Squeezing Orange County/Bringing Down Barings | |
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| The Good Lloyd's Shepherds Insure Disaster | |
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| Dying to Save Taxes | |
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| Enron--and Then Some (and Then None) | |
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| Peace--Diplomacy and Persuasion | |
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| The Levitating Crime Fighters | |
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| Daryl Gates, the Gandhi of Los Angeles | |
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| Stalin World | |
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| Peaceful Ejaculations and Explosions | |
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| Booming Voices of Britain | |
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| Father of the Bomb | |
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| Pacific Kaboom | |
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| Love and/or Reproduction | |
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| The Compulsive Biochemistry of Love | |
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| High-Velocity Birth | |
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| Taking Fatherhood in Hand | |
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| Insert Here | |
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| Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size | |
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| Discoveries--Basic Science | |
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| The Happiness of Clams | |
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| Cold Fusion in Chickens | |
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| Mini-Dinosaurs, Mini-Princesses | |
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| The Remembrance of Water Passed | |
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| Discoveries--Things That Rise or Fall | |
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| Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts | |
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| The Fall of Buttered Toast | |
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| The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow | |
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| Levitating Frogs | |
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| Troy and the Grizzly Bear | |
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| Troy and the Grizzly Bear | |
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| Inventions | |
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| The Most Inventive Salesman | |
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| The Kitty and the Keyboard | |
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| Patenting the Wheel | |
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| Hellish Technicalities | |
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| Who Is Going to Hell | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev Is the Antichrist | |
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| Scents and Sensibility | |
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| The Self-Perfuming Business Suit | |
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| Filter-Equipped Underwear | |
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| Food for Thought | |
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| Extremely Instant Barbecue | |
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| Sogginess at Breakfast | |
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| The Effects of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches | |
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| No Need for Food | |
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| How to Make a Cup of Tea, Officially | |
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| The Sociology of Canadian Donut Shops | |
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| The Optimal Way to Dunk a Biscuit | |
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| Education | |
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| Banning the Beaker | |
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| Deepak Chopra | |
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| Dan Quayle | |
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| Literature | |
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| 976 Coauthors in Search of a Title | |
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| The Father of Junk E-mail | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Year-by-Year List of Winners | |
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| How to Nominate Someone | |
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| The Web Site | |
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| About the Annals of Improbable Research | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |