The perhaps misleadingly-named Lee Loveless [pictured here] works for the UK’s National Health Service [NHS) in the city of Portsmouth. Loveless appears, in words only, in a BBC news report: Vampire video aims to help improve Portsmouth’s teeth A viral vampire video is at the centre of a new dental health campaign in Portsmouth. Inspired […]
Tag: public health
Bra to star in press conference Tuesday
Dr. Elena Bodnar will hold a press conference next week — on Tuesday, Sept 28, at 11:00 am — at the MIT Museum to announce that her Ig Nobel Prize-winning Emergency Bra is now available to the public, and to present a new invention (a counterpart device to be worn by men). UPDATE: The press […]
Scotsman: the volcano and the bra
The Scotsman comments on a dealing with the effects of the Icelandic volcano eruption: It’s better than cupping a hand over your face IT MAY well be time to resort to extreme protective measures amid fears over the ash cloud polluting our atmosphere. Perhaps we should join the Edinburgh International Science Festival in celebrating one […]
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) […]