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• ix • Introduction (A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown) • (1963) • essay by Robert A. Baker
• 1 • The Chisholm Effect: Basic Laws of Frustration, Mishap and Delay • short story by Francis P. Chisholm
• 5 • Body Ritual Among the Nacirema • (1956) • short story by Horace Miner
• 13 • Postal System Input Buffer Device • (1963) • essay by Robertson Osborne [as by Gil Robertson Osborne and Joe Robertson Osborne]
• 18 • Terns • short story by F. E. Warburton
• 20 • The Bridge of San Luis Rey • (1930) • short story by Edwin B. Wilson
• 30 • Cosmic Gall • (1960) • poem by John Updike
• 32 • The Abominable Snowman • (1959) • short story by John Masters
• 43 • A Psychoanalysis of U.S. Missile Failures • (1961) • short story by S. A. Rudin
• 46 • Peniwisle • (1960) • short story by R. W. Payne
• 51 • Univac to Univac • (1958) • poem by Louis B. Salomon
• 54 • Saga of a New Hormone • (1955) • short story by Norman Applezweig
• 57 • Digging the Weans • (1956) • short story by Robert Nathan
• 71 • The Twenty Third Psalm—Modern Style • (1961) • poem by R. A. Baker (I) and Alan Simpson
• 72 • Psalm • (1960) • poem by Lester del Rey
• 73 • Hiawatha's Lipid • (1960) • poem by Hugh Sinclair
• 84 • On the Nature of Mathematical Proofs • (1961) • short story by Joel E. Cohen [as by Joel Cohen]
• 91 • A New Tool • (1961) • short story by Mo Twente
• 96 • Cosmic Sex and You • (1961) • short story by Nils T. Peterson [as by Nils Peterson]
• 99 • Calling All Stars • (1961) • short story by Leo Szilard
• 106 • A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown • (1956) • short story by Charles E. Siem
• 112 • Meihem in ce Klasrum • (1946) • essay by Dolton Edwards
• 116 • A Report to the AMA • (1961) • short story by Frank Getlein
• 122 • Frieze • (1963) • poem by R. A. Baker (I)
• 123 • The Chaostron • (1961) • short story by J. B. Cadwallader-Cohen and R. R. Donnelly and W. S. Zysiczk
• 128 • How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation • (1951) • short story by James E. Miller
• 140 • Mathmanship • (1958) • short story by Nicholas Vanserg
• 146 • Logarithmic and Arythmic Expression of a Physiological Function • (1959) • short story by R. Arnold Le Win
• 150 • Report of the Special Committee • (1959) • short story by Warren Weaver
• 156 • The Average Working Hours of a Scientist During Lifetime • short story by S. Evershamen
• 158 • The Lab Coat as a Status Symbol • essay by F. E. Warburton
• 161 • Principles of Research Administration, or Eliza on the Radioactive Ice • (1959) • short story by Michael B. Shimkin
• 170 • Parkinson's Laws in Medical Research • (1962) • short story by C. Northcote Parkinson
• 177 • The Scientist as Seer • (1959) • essay by Rudolf B. Schmerl