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Ig Nobel Prize
As soon as you get up, you will turn on your As you can guess from the name, this
cell phone and check some messages. And contest's name follows the "Nobel Prize". Can
turn on the radio to listen some news when you believe that karaoke won this contest?
you have breakfast. When your preparation is Moreover, there are many special inventions
done, you will go to school by bus or on foot, which won this contest like a vanilla ice cream
listening to music using your MP3 player. made from cow's dung, and a sound that can
be heard only by teenagers; adults can't hear
Most students will do that every morning. it. When you hear about these inventions,
From morning to night, is there any time that you may think "They're strange! They're not
we don't use any inventions? Maybe the answer useful." But in fact, they are only strange at
is "No". Inventions make our life convenient. fi rst blush compared to our convenient, useful
But do you know this? Now many scientists things. Science starts not excessive things but a
are making some weird inventions. Now here little original idea. If you want to be a scientist,
is a very interesting contest which is called I would like to advise you to search about "Ig
"Ig Nobel Prize". Maybe you heard about this Nobel Prize".
contest once, at least. Park, Yunjeong (1-5)
yj4253@naver.com
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