<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c5c93370-96a0-4b8d-a0ad-2c4b1494b0a0/46A0E9C3-B9AF-4D44-AC6F-9655E8F3B323/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazing" href="http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazing" style="font-size: 11px;">damncoolpics.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazing"><P>The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements. The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".<BR /><BR />The Public Health prize went to Dr. Elena Bodnar of Hinsdale, Illinois and colleagues who designed and patented a bra that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.<BR /><BR />Funny idea, but imagine you suddenly need to use the bra gas mask while walking on the street because of some disaster, then imagine all the women taking off their bras at the same time, that would be something to remember.<BR /><BR />Other winners included farmers who showed that naming your cows makes them give more milk in a study by Newcastle University, researchers who used panda droppings to break down household trash and a scientist who calculated why pregnant women do not fall over. For <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8285380.stm" target="_blank">more info</A>.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskQOw-y8I/AAAAAAAAyK8/AIveY33Dr4E/s1600-h/gas_mask_bra_01.jpg"><IMG id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441240338975682" height="286" hspace="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskQOw-y8I/AAAAAAAAyK8/AIveY33Dr4E/s400/gas_mask_bra_01.jpg" width="408" vspace="0" border="0" /></A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskPWbxFrI/AAAAAAAAyK0/ekgjJIfXu_I/s1600-h/gas_mask_bra_02.jpg"><IMG id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441225217611442" height="335" hspace="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskPWbxFrI/AAAAAAAAyK0/ekgjJIfXu_I/s400/gas_mask_bra_02.jpg" width="408" vspace="0" border="0" /></A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskOvOX3MI/AAAAAAAAyKs/mcLqc-aQN7s/s1600-h/gas_mask_bra_03.jpg"><IMG id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441214692449474" height="344" hspace="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskOvOX3MI/AAAAAAAAyKs/mcLqc-aQN7s/s400/gas_mask_bra_03.jpg" width="408" vspace="0" border="0" /></A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskOIgszpI/AAAAAAAAyKk/1Fe93hxkYQs/s1600-h/gas_mask_bra_04.jpg"><IMG id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441204300336786" height="307" hspace="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskOIgszpI/AAAAAAAAyKk/1Fe93hxkYQs/s400/gas_mask_bra_04.jpg" width="408" vspace="0" border="0" /></A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskNSdbjvI/AAAAAAAAyKc/7UDbluZq4WU/s1600-h/gas_mask_bra_05.jpg"><IMG id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441189791108850" height="274" hspace="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/SsskNSdbjvI/AAAAAAAAyKc/7UDbluZq4WU/s400/gas_mask_bra_05.jpg" width="408" vspace="0" border="0" /></A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46A0E9C3-B9AF-4D44-AC6F-9655E8F3B323/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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