Cast your mind back to January 1999, when then-editor Joan Juliet Buck commissioned a science-themed issue which included quantum physics, evolution as imagined by Herb Ritts, and chaos theory illustrated in puff pastry.
The UK branch of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science recently commissioned a poll from Ipsos Mori, which examined in detail the beliefs of the 72% of respondents who said in the 2001 census they were Christian.
They also commissioned a survey of women in science, engineering and medicine who answered questions about their experiences.
8– 11 For instance, the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research commissioned a survey looking at the situation of Austrian students since the early 1970s.
The rebuilt faculty room went through stints as a library and science museum, until Woodrow Wilson commissioned a 1906 renovation that made the space resemble an 18th-century chapel.
He commissioned a census.
The diary began to fill up, and among the jobs on offer was a newly commissioned radio comedy science fiction series: Hitchhiker's.
As Dan Sarewitz has argued in Nature, science funders could learn lessons from the achievements of the military-industrial complex, which successfully commissioned successful science during the Cold War, to fund meaningful science in other areas The case of neglected diseases shows that alternatives are possible.
The piece was commissioned for a new science center in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Far from discouraging that tourism-friendly if somewhat unscholarly notion, the municipal government of Chengdu commissioned science fiction writers in 2011 to conjure tales explaining the phenomenon, according to a report by China's Xinhua news agency.
But ministers at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are left with an awkward decision on whether to ban wild animals in circuses after the report they commissioned into the science of animal welfare gave little to go on.
