Next year, when this experiment in European-style socialism isn't working, the Democrats up for re-election will panic and make the spending this year look like an appetizer.
When leaders in their experiment were in an unstable position (told that their role was dependent on performance) and confronted with a threatening opponent they, literally, moved closer to the threat, by placing their chair on average 15 inches closer.
The explanation appears to be that the beneficial changes that happened early in the experiment, when the viruses were least well-suited to their environment, had bigger effects than those that happened later, when they were well adapted.
In an experiment, the researchers sold 73% more hand lotion when it was offered in a bonus pack than when it carried an equivalent discount (even after all other effects, such as a desire to stockpile, were controlled for).
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When finance professor Jack Treynor ran the experiment in his class with a jar that held 850 beans, the group estimate was 871.
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The field then suffered a major setback when an Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukemia in 2002.
He is a geneticist at the University of Leicester, just as he was in 1984 when he was conducting a DNA experiment that had nothing to do with identifying individuals.
When Franklin began his work on this great experiment in 1751, some 25 years prior to the Declaration of Independence, the colonies were anything but united, and they had little interest in becoming so.
In the experiment, college students remembered less information when they knew they would have access to it later.
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Radioactivity came to light a century after the discovery of uranium when Henri Becquerel used uranium salts and photographic plates in the same experiment and found that one fogged the other.
In an experiment, he encouraged the athletes to smile when they got to that point of exhaustion.
Not surprisingly, there is a seasonal spike in December when handset sales spike and people receiving iPhone Christmas gifts experiment with new applications.
When the right prefrontal cortex gets jumpy, it indicates, in this experiment, instinctive revulsion to an obnoxious, tongue-wagging character who pops up in a commercial for Carling beer.
Their chance came in 1989 when Algeria's military establishment decided it was safe to experiment with pluralism.
Enterprise Rent-a-Car conducted a similar experiment in the U.S. in 2005, when they launched their Exotic Car Collection in West Los Angeles.
Last August, ACT unveiled a technique that might allow the creation of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos--but drew fire when critics said Lanza had not been clear enough that the embryos in the experiment were destroyed.
Psychologist Phil Zimbardo showed that we all have a dark side, one that can emerge quite suddenly, in his famous Stanford Prison Experiment, which was cut off early when students who played prison guards became sadistic and those who played prisoners became depressed.
There have been moments in our history when others have counted us out or predicted the demise of our improbable American experiment.
In one experiment, Oldis and another colleague named Marjorie Kaye had both entered REM sleep, when the program turned on the red light bulb cue for Oldis.
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Switzerland's previous radical experiment with drugs when the police turned a blind eye to open-air drug markets in Zurich and Bern ended in chaos in 1995 when the places became the haunts of drug users and pushers from across Europe.
Poutine first hit their menu in the 1980s, but when Annie Barsalou took over the restaurant from her father, Pierre, they started to experiment with the dish and never looked back.
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