- From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
"18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony" was held on 2 October 2008 at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre.
Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site.
Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs jump higher than fleas that live on cats.
Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill, and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang for accidentally proving it is not.
Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber, and Brent Jordan, for discovering that exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility.
Literature: David Sims, for his study "You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations".
Medicine: Rebecca Waber and Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive placebos are more effective than inexpensive placebos.
Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence, for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds more appealing.
Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland, for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith, for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle.
2.Go to Encyclopedia Online at http://library.spu.ac.th Search for the history of automobiles or computer. Summarize the information you get.
- The history of the automobile begins as early as 1769, with the creation of steam-powered automobiles capable of human transport[1] In 1806, the first cars powered by internal combustion engines running on fuel gas appeared, which led to the introduction in 1885 of the ubiquitous modern gasoline- or petrol-fueled internal combustion engine. Cars powered by electricity briefly appeared at the turn of the 20th century but largely disappeared from commonality until the turn of the 21st century, when interest in low- and zero-emissions transportation was reignited. As such, the early history of the automobile can be divided into a number of eras based on the prevalent method of automotive propulsion during that time. Later periods were defined by trends in exterior styling and size and utility preferences
3.What is the difference between general book and reference book?
- A reference collection is a collection of source in print and electronic from intended to be referred to rather than read. The materials are usually not for loan outside the library.The Reference collection consist of encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, years books, almanacs, states and other sources providing readily accessible reference information. It is arranged to enable convenient and rapid use by library clients and staff.
General books are related to fictions and non fictions. This is very general. Text books can be related in general books. These books could relation to free writing.
4.When do you need to search information from the reference collection?
- when we need more specific information or specific topic and also specific history. It is arranged to enable convenient and rapid use by library cilients and staff, usually, not for loan outside the library.
5.what type of reference collection that you like to use most? And why?
- Dictionary because it can help me to translate the word that I don't understand and I don't know the meaning.
6.Encyclopaedia
Name of book - Grolier Business Library (Using the Internet) Deluxe Edition.
- What is the Internet?
- The internet is the name given to a collection of computers around the world that can be connected to each other over the telephone line. The Internet itself does not esist as a discrete entity, rather it is a random collection of people, companies and prganisations all joined together through the telephone system. As you will find out later in this book, you too dan provide services on the Internet. All you need are:
- a computer
- and a telephone line
and you are away.
You don't need permission and you don't need any kind of legal approval. You can literally provide services on the Internet from your back bedroom - as many people already do. In essence the Internet is simply a collection of computers that can easily link to each other and swap information.
WHERE DID THE INTERNET COM FROM?
Although we have only recently seen 'the Interney' appear on TV and in the media, it has actually been around for quite a while.
The American origins
The Internet began life in America in the late 1960s, with just four computer owned by the Department of Defense. They were known as ARPAnet - the Advanced Research Projects Agency network. To confuse the issue, the network changed its name later in the 1960s and then back again later!
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