Within an hour of the phone conversation, I was standing in a branch of "outdoor experts" Black's - true alien territory - panic-buying like a man who had foreseen Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Dennis Werner, a plant breeding expert at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, said that occasionally in a branch, the lower-cell layer, with normal genes, swaps places with the middle layer, and the leaves go back to being all green.
The company has launched a huge hiring push to take on more experts in machine learning — a branch of computing that aims to make devices that think like humans.
He is a leading expert in psychometrics, a data-driven sub-branch of psychology.
Six years later, the experts in the east branch did something no one would have foreseen here.
Their advice is often outdated and probably based on information that is not up-dated and not as good as that available to experts in the executive branch.
We have lined up a panel of discussants including David Willetts, the minister for universities and science, and several other experts in various branches of science, science policy and history, all of whom will be interested to hear your views and to discuss any questions you might have about the capital investment plans.
"The greatest danger from Islamist militants comes from the Salafists, not the Shiites but the Sunnis," said Berndt Georg Thamm, a terrorism expert in Berlin, referring to a hard-line branch of Sunni Islam.
While discussions so far have taken place between top diplomats and security experts in the executive branches of both countries, any major aid package for Mexico would probably have to have Congressional approval, officials from both sides said.
