Our brains literally rebel against this experiment, and, using their MRI scanner, Camerer and his colleagues figured out why.

FORBES: This Is Your Brain On Money

In this regard, the new experiment of using popular literary classics to generate new audiences may well be a salutary step forward.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera

From August 8-18th, in this ingenious 30-city social experiment, Honest Tea was using the honor system to see which city had the most honest people.

FORBES: Connect

And those commanders in whom we've placed the trust to make life-and-death decisions and to defend our freedom should be given that same level of trust in determining what people they use and what jobs to perform the mission, and women have done this, and they're not using women today in Iraq as a social experiment.

NPR: Women in Combat: Rules and Reality

This was both insurance against another run on the rupiah and part of China's experiment with using the yuan as an international currency.

ECONOMIST: The rise of Chindonesia

An experiment under way at the University of Washington, led by Eric Adelberger, tests this idea using the world's most sensitive torsion balance, a souped-up version of the kit Henry Cavendish, an English physicist, used to measure gravity directly for the first time in the late 18th century.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

His study's design imitated Milgram's, even using the same scripts for the experimenter and suffering learner, but the key difference was that this experiment stopped at 150 volts -- when the learner starts asking to leave.

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