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The easy chair — From the November 1978 issue
The easy chair — From the January 1969 issue
Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee
The editor's easy chair — From the June 1966 issue
Field notes on three varieties of Japanese inns
The editor's easy chair — From the April 1965 issue
A report from Iran (part II)
The editor's easy chair — From the March 1965 issue
A report from Iran (part I)
Article — From the February 1963 issue
Books in brief — From the December 1961 issue
Books in brief — From the August 1960 issue
Books in brief — From the December 1951 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
