But Venture for America is tapping into a generational ethos that views the 20s as an age to experiment and to pick a passion over a big paycheck.
It took decades of improvements in detector technology--and the design of a clever experiment--to pick out slight differences in the way kaons and antikaons decayed into several combinations of pions.
As gratifying as it is to know one thing deeply, it's at least as satisfying to know and enjoy many things, no? Naturally, if you want to experiment, it helps to pick a good bottle.
Based on the selection, a 12-run PB experiment was chosen to pick up the main factors in the fermentative process for the production of melanin.
Similarly, experiments carried out in mice and tsetse flies indicate that the gene is nonessential for the survival of the parasite in vivo, though of course these types of experiment generally fail to pick up subtle fitness traits that can be sufficient to maintain the genes in nature.
The ability to choose essentially any mapper in Tentacle also contributes to making it suited for gene quantification of data generated from most metagenomic experiments, allowing users to pick an algorithm that best deals with the particular characteristics of their data.
In one experiment, people were asked to pick their horoscope out of a basket of sun-sign predictions and failed.
Ingress remains an interesting experiment that's managing to pick up traction at a decent clip, however, so its progress on iOS will be interesting to watch.
Blas Cabrera, a physicist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and spokesman for the rival SuperCDMS experiment, says that having to pick only one team "would have been a grave mistake".
But as their number increased, the complexity of their projects grew, and the grant selection committees tended to pick experiments that were almost sure to work, a trend Dr. Finch deplored.
We did an experiment, using an electronic dartboard to pick 12 stocks at a time out of the 50 largest holdings in that Vanguard FTSE fund.
