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janterry

(4,429 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2020, 08:13 PM Apr 2020

The Easiest Mask to Make and Best Fitting

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The Easiest Mask to Make and Best Fitting (Original Post) janterry Apr 2020 OP

what a great idea. Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #1

2009 Ig Nobel Prize winner GopherGal Apr 2020 #2

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)

1. what a great idea.

Reply to janterry (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 08:22 PM

Apr 2020

K&R

GopherGal

(2,008 posts)

2. 2009 Ig Nobel Prize winner

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Mon Apr 6, 2020, 09:06 PM

Apr 2020

"For achievements that first make people LAUGHthen make them THINK"

[link:https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/|]

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing 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.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent # 7255627, granted August 14, 2007 for a “Garment Device Convertible to One or More Facemasks.”

I was also interested to note that the 2000 Psychology Prize went to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I guess that was a lot funnier in 2000 than it is in 2020.

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