At the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony , Public Health Prize winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention – 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 is assisted by Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle , Orhan Pamuk , and Paul Krugman .
This is the new episode — #128, “The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health” — of the Improbable Research TV series .
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