The Times's sports department experimented for the first time on Tuesday with Google+ video hangouts for a discussion about the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Separately, the department is experimenting with a new system for inspecting animal carcasses in slaughterhouses that puts more responsibility on packers to catch defects in meat.
Several surveillance drones are already used for border patrol, and the F.A.A. has allowed a few police departments to experiment narrowly, as in a ceiling of 400 feet for surveillance flights over the Everglades by the Miami Police Department.
The Times's sports department started experimenting with Google-plus video hangouts last month, and with opening day coming this week, we thought it was time to get our baseball reporters in front of webcams.
As GeekWire reports, the department started experimenting with community outreach over the game streaming platform earlier this year, starting a Twitch channel called Fuzzfeed206.
The forecasting tool, which is called Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), offers police a more community-friendly data instrument than the New York Police Department's controversial CompStat program, according to Joel Caplan, who designed RTM at Rutgers along with Dr. Leslie Kennedy and then placed the tool and information online, for free, for police departments to experiment with.
And in the United States, this year's Farm Bill included an amendment allowing universities and state agriculture departments to "experiment" with hemp in any state with a law approving such production, opening the door for America's first fully legal crop since the Second World War inspired the federal government's famous "Hemp for Victory" campaign.
Some pilots are using iPads to replace flight manuals in the cockpit, a few police departments are experimenting with using iPhones to identify suspects, and doctors are using iPads to access patient records and X-ray charts.
Within Australia, both CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, in conjunction with various government departments, have experimented with web-based delivery of climate tools.
The producer suggested that she use the chair from the studio props department, but the experiment failed, and so Doonican tried it instead.
In this, she was honouring the art school traditions of St Martin's, particularly the sculpture department's controversial experiment in teaching practice, known as the "locked room", during which students were left to work under surveillance but with limited critical feedback from tutors.
