In the 1960s, the American government carried out an experiment known as Project Storm Fury.
That's one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week.
Gates says Yamaguchi started out as an experiment in the politics of art and race: What would happen to his pots and bowls, which weren't selling so well, if he told people they were made by the mixed-race son of a Japanese master potter who had taught his methods to the neighbors of his black Mississippi bride?
To try the system out, the team established an experiment with 100 participants, all of whom were asked either to watch a short video and describe what they saw, or to listen to the description and describe what they heard.
More intriguingly, an experiment carried out in 2004 by Brian Hare, then at Harvard and now of Duke University in North Carolina, suggested that natural selection in the context of domestication had boosted dogs' intelligence, too, by allowing them to understand human behaviour in a way that their ancestors, wolves, cannot.
CERN, in Geneva, have in mind an experiment to find out if either theory is correct.
The ocean is a single, contiguous body of water that is crucial to human life: an unauthorized experiment carried out in one place can have consequences hundreds of kilometres away.
Catholic elders in Calcutta say Bishop Gomes is carrying out what they described as an "experiment worth trying", but they were not sure whether the time was right to start a drive against child marriage across West Bengal.
Traveling down from the top of the hierarchy to the base sensations, he figures, the neocortex functions as a prediction machine, anticipating what we will see next, where the ball is headed or how an experiment might turn out.
The game follows two survivors of a secret experiment that must fight their way out of an asylum.
Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday morning when he showed up at the team's facility ready to work out, the end of an embarrassingly unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York that produced more hype and headlines than production on the field.
They rejected bilingual education not out of anti-immigrant fervour but because it is widely seen as an experiment that failed.
An experiment being launched today in cities around the world intends to find out.
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The puzzle is Mr. Soderbergh's approach to what might have been an intriguing experiment, rather than the off-putting one it turned out to be.
An experiment, granted, that most observers still want to see play itself out, and succeed.
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But the Web is a freewheeling experiment in creative destruction, and an itsy-bitsy piece of software out of Germany might muck up the realm of flashy display ads, an industry on which a Micro-hoo would depend heavily for its ad revenue.
Its mission is to carry out Martin's experiment on a much grander scale, pouring iron ore into the ocean in an attempt to stimulate plankton growth and assess the wider effects on sea life.
The participants had to record themselves how many words they got each round and, at the end of the experiment, hand in a notebook of their achievements and take the corresponding amount of money out of an envelope.
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