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Bra Gas Mask Wins Ig Nobel Prize

by Matthew Zuras on October 3, 2009 at 02:13 PM


The Nobel Prizes are always preceded by the Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor research that "makes people laugh and think." This year's Ig Nobel winners have turned tequila into diamonds, studied full versus empty beer-bottle-to-head injuries (turns out they both hurt), and even designed a bra that, during your average chemical warfare blitz, doubles as a pair of gas masks for you and a friend. Dr. Elena Bodnar, winner of the Public Health prize for her bustier-cum-breathing apparatus, demonstrated the effectiveness of her invention on two real Nobel laureates, who presented her award.

Nobel laureates wearing bras on their faces? Why didn't we get invited to this frat party? Bodnar shares her new (ig-)nobility with such dignified past winners as Kees Moeliker, who discovered the propensity for gay necrophilia in ducks, and Dr. Francis Fesmire, whose cure for hiccups involves the manipulation of your interior posterior.

Switched would like to applaud the Ig Nobel winners both past and current for their very Freudian contributions to the scientific canon. Keep up the good work! [From: Telegraph.co.uk]

Tags: funny, humor, ig nobel awards, IgNobelAwards, research, top, weird

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