This unique enterprise, which began as a documentary experiment almost a half century ago, has grown into an inspiring testimonial to the unpredictability of the human spirit.
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The Playbook feels like a lab experiment masquerading as a commercial ready product.
What is true is that we are seeing a fascinating experiment in what a currency of the future might look like.
Nokia will support MeeGo as an open source initiative and expects to ship one MeeGo device in 2011, but my take here made it feel like the MeeGo effort more as a science experiment, than a product strategy.
It would be a big experiment, but it would at least be a planned one unlike the equally big, but unplanned experiment that is now being conducted by motor cars, power stations, cement factories and logging companies all across the planet.
In a 2004 experiment, Kaye created a piece of software he called the "virtual intimate object, " or VIO.
In a parallel experiment he looked at a group of women being treated with a new drug called lapatinib.
Mr Barrington said a recent experiment had resulted in a "very large bang" and "an awful lot of rust" falling off the fort.
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In this experiment, which was originally a thought experiment but has recently been conducted, time seems to run backward.
Agile development has a useful concept called a spike: a small experiment done to prove something a developer has never done before to understand the full scope of a certain type of feature.
At this point, it's as much a thought experiment as an attempt to create a usable tool.
To further study the reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab.
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In a second experiment, the researchers looked at a group of 88 leaders from other Harvard executive education programs with varying levels of responsibility for managing groups and subordinates.
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However, the scenarios included multiple rounds of negotiation, so there was room for give-and-take: in a third experiment, with negotiation focused on a single issue, mimicry failed to have its desired effect.
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The researchers conducted a third experiment online to test the effects in a more diverse population.
Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr.
Founded in 2008 by Danny Gabriner, it began as a home experiment with sourdough baking that resulted in a doughy vision.
In the mobile research I just mentioned, we did a little experiment where we used network quality as a proxy for performance.
Like a physical experiment, every entrepreneurial venture embodies and tests a hypothesis about products or markets.
Those valuable but expensive trials, where doctors design a careful experiment and then give patients either Vioxx or a comparator drug, could answer questions about Vioxx's safety.
And by using the glove between each set he was, in a subsequent experiment, able to raise his performance in a full session from 180 pull-ups to 600.
In a third experiment involving only women, those who saw a photo slide show on the recession rated more highly the importance of finding a mate with sound finances.
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In a separate experiment, the researchers demonstrated that they could induce a promotion or prevention focus simply by phrasing the goals of the study in two different ways.
The paper demonstrated the hypothesis through a complicated experiment in which college students were asked to make a judgment about something they could not know for certain -- guessing someone's weight in a photo -- before having their moods swayed either positively, negatively or neutrally by snippets from films intended to provoke either anger, euphoria or no strong feelings.
He is the new official spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment, a particle physics experiment at CERN.
"It's a very interesting experiment capturing a number of attributes, " Sicher said, likening it to Starbucks' Refreshers drinks, which promise "natural energy" from green coffee extract.
If the World Bank is going to help find solutions to the lingering problems of global poverty and underdevelopment, its next President must be a person that comes to the job with a willingness to experiment and a heavy dose of, dare I say it, humility.
In fact, the authors hope to do a preliminary experiment monitoring the spread of the novel H1N1 virus on a college campus, Fowler said.
Mel Gibson stars as a daredevil Air Corps pilot in 1939 who volunteers for a cryogenics experiment after his true love (Isabel Glasser) enters a seemingly irreversible coma.
When a scientific experiment fails, we know we have to come up with a different theory.
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