THURSDAY, MARCH 3 The League of Imaginary Scientists: The Zephyr Experiment MOCA Grand Ave (Downtown) 7-10pm For their third and final Engagement Party, the League of Imaginary Scientists present The Zephyr Experiment, inviting museum visitors to join in a hands-on experience of invention and experimental wonder, centered around explorations of human flight and floatation.
ARMCHAIR ETHICIST Some weeks ago we conducted an ethical experiment, inviting readers to offer their thoughts — in real time — about an interesting question: Should someone asked to sort through a deceased colleague's office e-mails delete an unfinished letter detailing "some pretty heavy marital woes"?
Serious games can mimic real-world issues and thus provide a safe and open environment that is inviting for exploring, experimenting and learning.
She has also had opportunities to experiment with inviting other voices that ordinarily might not be a part of traditional academic pursuits.
Last fall, two female officers went through the course as an experiment and failed, inviting questions — even though large numbers of men fail — of whether women were up to it.
The founders of the Polish mathematical school made a brave experiment consisting in inviting two philosophers with a modest mathematical background as professors at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; this did not happen in any other country.
I decided to embark on an experiment of trust, inviting students to make monthly contributions on a sliding scale.
With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full "firehose" of its 500 million daily tweets.
Academic publishers have been more willing to experiment with subscription models, inviting libraries to pay an annual fee for unlimited access to certain books.
However, Opiah said it's important to understand the exhibit simply as a social experiment, not a movement inviting the world to reach out and touch the head of the next black woman they see.
