[mini-AIR] mini-AIR: Dunged Fungus Flora (and the Ig Nobel issue is ready)

Marc Abrahams marc at improbable.com
Thu Jan 21 16:25:35 EST 2021 

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January 2020, issue number 2021-01. ISSN 1076-500X.
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01 TABLE OF CONTENTS

02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: The Special IG NOBEL Issue
03 Dunged Fungus Flora, Steamed and Unsteamed
04 Limerick Challenge: Dung-Aroma-ed Tobacco
05 Double-Hand Handstand on the Neck Feasibility Winner
06 MORE IMPROBABLE: Vat, Citrus, Gorilla Output, Cork
07 Coprophilous Fungus Succession on Camel Dung
20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS
30 — Subscribe to the Actual Magazine! (*)
31 — How to start or stop receiving this little newsletter (*)
32 — Contact Info (*)
33 — Standard Gobbledegook (*)

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02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: The Special IG NOBEL Issue

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03 Dunged Fungus Flora, Steamed and Unsteamed

This month's maybe-random research item:

"Study of Fungus Flora Developing on Steamed and Unsteamed Dung," C.V. Subramanian and B.C. Lodha, Kavaka, 1975.
<https://tinyurl.com/y3s83wsu>


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04 Limerick Challenge: Dung-Aroma-ed Tobacco

This month's RESEARCH LIMERICK challenge — Devise a pleasing limerick that encapsulates this study:

"Effects of Cow Dung on the Contents of Aroma Components of Flue-Cured Tobacco," Feng-xia Zhang, Yong-jian Ma, Hai-qun Bai, Peng-fei Song, and Fu-gen Han, Journal of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry (Natural Science), vol. 1, 2009.
<https://tinyurl.com/y67nf935>

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	DUNG-AROMA-ED TOBACCO LIMERICK COMPETITION
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05 Double-Hand Handstand on the Neck Feasibility Winner

The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:

"Feasibility Analysis of the Skill of Double-Hand Handstand to Handstand on the Neck in Men Acrobatics," Qiu-shuang Zhao, Journal of Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, vol. 3, 2003. <https://tinyurl.com/y858g9ax> 

INVESTIGATOR H. Ahanbsket writes:

Double-hand handstanding led,
Apparently, not to a bed.
  No half-broken necks.
  No vertebral wrecks.
No mention that anyone bled.

This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:

Two handstand identification.
How feasible realization?
  The interest of these
  From at first the Chinese
Into English and lost in translation.


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06 MORE IMPROBABLE: Vat, Citrus, Gorilla Output, Cork

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07 Coprophilous Fungus Succession on Camel Dung

"Coprophilous Fungus Succession on Camel Dung," H.A. Bokhary, Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 1, 1985, pp. 277-284.
<https://eurekamag.com/research/020/783/020783970.php>


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20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS

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