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Oct. 2 2009 - 2:08 pm | 157 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

OddFile: Ig Nobels Announced

By RYAN SAGER
AP

AP

The Ig Nobel prizes for 2009 have been awarded. Here’s one that should show up at Victoria’s Secret any day:

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.

Read the rest here.

And feel sad that you’re not at the Ig Nobel lectures today.

Have a candidate for the OddFile? Email me at editor-at-ryansager.com.

 
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