He experimented with the effects of various chemical substances on disease organisms.
Terrible things did happen as the cold-blooded, unemotional machines that ran it experimented with the effects of traumatic events wars, plagues, "Gilligan's Island"—on hyper-emotionalized programs such as us.
After returning from the US, Woodruff experimented with the effects of cortisone and the impact of blood antigen on rejection.
He also experimented with the effects of printing on different kinds of paper, including Japanese paper, which he used frequently, and on vellum.
As a kid he wanted to be a marine biologist and there is still much of the mad scientist about Nilsson who, with New York superstar chef David Chang, is currently experimenting with the effect on food of wild yeasts and microbiology.
Other projects included examining possum specimens at the Peabody and other museums in the United States and Australia; experimenting with the effect of light on plant and insect specimens; examining genetic differences in the brains and skulls of chickens and alligators to shed light on the dinosaur-bird transition; and Carpenter's work with foraminifera in Long Island Sound, among other topics.
Chunlei Guo of the University of Rochester in New York state, along with colleagues both at the university and in Russia, were experimenting with the effect of ultrafast laser pulses on metals when they noticed that pulses lasting only a few femtoseconds--quadrillionths of a second--could fundamentally change the molecular arrangement of metals without melting them.
Mr. Alexander designed windows by experimenting with the effects of light, putting up cardboard panels where the windows might be and cutting in windows with an X-Acto blade.
Starting in the late nineteen-forties, doctors and researchers began experimenting with the effects that rapid cooling had on living creatures.
In practice, however, the idea of putting a barrier in front of an emergency exit is too counter-intuitive for planners to have tried.The cognitive-science model offers a more palatable option, that of experimenting with the effects of changes in people's visual fields.
