Sara Kenigsberg‘s video report, for her Northwestern University class in 2009, about how the Chernobyl power plant disaster inspired Dr. Elena Bodnar to invent the (Ig Nobel Prize-winning) brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks. The bra has since gone into production, and is now used […]
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Terry Jones takes on technology
Terry Jones, of Monty Python and other fame, interviewed by The Observer on the subject of technology. (The unrelated photo below shows Mr. Jones assisting Dr. Elena Bodnar, inventor of the brassiere that in an emergency can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks. That demonstration happened on the 2010 Ig Nobel […]
Bodnar bringing bra to Britain
Dr. Elena Bodnar writes, in The Guardian, about the soon-to-begin 2010 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK: For the Ig Nobel award ceremony, I designed a hot pink Emergency Bra that has now been dubbed the Harvard model. I demonstrated it on Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (Nobel prize for physics, 2001), Orhan Pamuk (literature, 2006) […]