Serge_LJ (serge_lj) wrote,
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bras as weapons against terrorism

A couple of days ago, I received the newsletter of the Annals of Improbable Research. One item was about their Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health.

Video of Dr. Elena Bodnar's Ig Nobel acceptance speech is now
online. Dr Bodnar invented a brassiere that, in an emergency, can
be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one
for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy
bystander. She demonstrated it at the ceremony, assisted by Nobel
laureates Wolfgang Ketterle, Orhan Pamuk, and Paul Krugman.


Somehow, seeing Krugman wear a bra in a public setting makes last year's worldcon interview of him by Charles Stross seem rather tame.



( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxf3HK21BWI )
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