102 Unit 07 For science! w45u8v In this unit you will: discuss energy use at home compare ways of generating electricity argue for or against water power learn about a grave matter practise analysing graphs discover how education can help the climate Discuss the Ig Nobel Prize winners below with a partner, then share your findings in class. 1 Which one do you find most surprising? 2 How could these findings be(come) important? 3 Do you think this is a good way to get people interested in science? Why?/Why not? SPEAKING 1 By the way The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that make people laugh, and then think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, praise the imaginative – and spur people’s interest in science, medicine and technology. For proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots. For demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine. For discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way. For trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children. For discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa). For inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg. Physics (2008) Chemistry (2015) Mathematics (2015) Pharmacology (2008) Medicine (2016) Astronomy (2013) Biology + Work in small groups. Come up with one fun and one serious question science should answer in the future. How would an answer to these questions help us live better lives? 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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