The Journal of Irreproducible Results
Norman Sperling, the editor of JIR, the Journal of Irreproducible Results
was so nice to send me an issue as part of the campaign to let people know JIR
is back again.
JIR started in 1955 with Issue 2 when Alexander Kohn filled it with fake
articles with references to the not existing issue 1. Many people liked it and
it became a real journal with funny scientific articles. It was copied all
around and you will find some stuff originating there within my own science
jokes site.
Somewhere around the eighties it got so many subscribers that JIR needed a
new publisher, but it seems the relation between the staf and the publisher was
troublesome. About 10 years ago the editors of JIR walked out and started a new
magazine called (Annals of Improbable Results
(AIR). This left the original journal in a troublesome situation. The new
publishers gave the journal back to the old publisher, Dr Scherr. The fact that
the original publisher, now also editor, spent a lot of time suiing the AIR new
journal did not help either. But there where still new issues coming out.
Now the Journal of Irreproducibe Results is back under new management and
editor, Norman Sperling.
What about the contents? This issue has 34 pages. As before the JIR has
pseudo scientific articles of one or two pages. For example there is an article
that gives an explation for the fact that women see much more colors than men
(wheat, tan, sand, khaki brown, cocoa, sable, chestnut, mocha, burnt sienna,
mahogany, sepia, walnut, seal brown and chocolate versus brown, light brown and
dark brown.) The explanation is given by a bigger part of the brain the Corpus
Croyola for women. The author further speculates that this is because that
boys get boxes with eight colors of crayons and girls boxes with 64 or even 128
colors.
If you are interested you can get more infomation and subscribe at the JIR webpage.