The chapter title refers to the human experience which Wright sees as a large experiment testing what conditions are required for a human civilisation to succeed.
To watch: An early U.S. Air Force experiment testing the effects of weightlessness on cats.
The mayoral election in Moscow was meant as an experiment, testing the mood in the country.
But the Hopkins study was apparently of a type known as a challenge experiment, testing a theory about how the body responds to various stimuli.
Women in rich and middle-income countries may soon find themselves enrolled in a real-life experiment testing this proposition.
Those extreme juxtapositions are so exciting to write about: it's like a perfect experiment, testing one version of the truth against another, incompatible version, and seeing what explosions, what deformations result.
"Syriana" made sense in the end, but you practically needed a database to sort out the story elements; the movie became a weird formal experiment, testing the audience's endurance and patience.
There has been almost no field research on technologies to reflect sunlight; a British experiment testing the feasibility of pumping liquids to great heights was canceled this year after a dispute over patents.
Mr. Bowles, who was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said Tuesday that Congress should run an experiment testing the feasibility of converting Medicaid to a lump-sum block grant in 10 states.
So I spent the next four to five years conducting experiment after experiment, testing it in different ways, to confirm to myself that this approach was economical and could be done".
If students choose to do an experiment testing the effects of clothing on test performance, for example, have the students first run one trial of their test in class, wearing whatever clothing they happen to have on.
