Do you share the Christmas tradition of watching “Project Grizzly“, the documentary film about Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise? Here’s the film: Troy was awarded the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize for safety engineering, for Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. BONUS: Farewell, […]
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Home-built suits of armor, built to survive against grizzlies or neighbors
Savor, if you will, the lurch of latter-day suits. Compare and contrast these two descriptions of men who scrounged materials to build suits of armor to protect them against possibly malevolent forces. First, Troy Hurtubise, 1998 Ig Nobel Prize winner, who built a suit of armor to protect him against grizzly bears. Stephen Smith wrote […]
Safety School: Bulletproof Whiteboards
“The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore announced that it is purchasing 200 [bulletproof] whiteboards from Hardwire LLC, a company based in Pocomoke City, Maryland, citing the need for a heightened sense of security in the wake of deadly mass shootings in recent years,” reports CNN. The manufacturer says its product is “now available in pink, blue, […]
Knight on a treadmill (a tale of energy spent)
ScienceNOW reports on a new study (published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B) about knights of old: Heavy Armor Gave Knights a Workout Knights in shining armor paid a heavy price for the protection their suits provided them from swords, arrows, and Frenchmen catapulting cows. Researchers have found that the steel plate-mail armor worn during […]
One Fan’s Tribute to Project Grizzly
Here is one fan’s short tribute video — a re-enactment with a grizzly-bear suit and an anti-grizzly bear suit suit — to Troy Hurtubise. Troy was the subject of the documentary film “Project Grizzly” [which you can watch in its entirety at the NFB web site, or see a snippet below the jump here]. He […]
Troy on the march
Troy Hurtubise, 1998 Ig Nobel Prize winner (in the field of Safety Engineering) for spending seven years building and personally testing a suit of armor that he hopes will protect him against grizzly bears (an adventure that inspired an episode of The Simpsons TV show), and whose subsequent exploits we have documented, has invented yet […]