Annals of Improbable Research: new issue!

My favorite magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, just released a "special issue" on navel lint. Other highlights:

• "The effects of a joke on tipping when it is delivered at the same time as a bill", by Nicolas Gueguen, Journal of Applied Social Psychology 32:1955-63 (2002). The same author also published a paper called "Bust size and hitchhiking: a field study."
• "First names and crime: Does unpopularity spell trouble?" David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee, Social Sciences Quarterly 90:39-49 (2009). (The answer is "Yes.")
  
• "Attractiveness, easiness, and other issues: Student evaluation of professors on RateMyProfessors.com", by James Felton et al, SSRN Working Paper #918283 (July 2006). "[A previous paper] demonstrated a student preference for course easiness and instructor sexiness... Results indicate even stronger relationships than previously reported."

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