So, in an odd experiment, he gave them an artificial one.
By James Surowiecki A few years ago, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman conducted an odd experiment.
The Shariah court here, not much older than Ms. Lawal's baby girl, is an odd experiment, cobbling together the customs of British law and the tenets of Islamic law.
In an odd experiment conducted a couple of years ago, two social psychologists, Janice Templeton and Mark Leary, wired subjects with facial-temperature sensors and put them on one side of a one-way mirror.
And so began her odd experiment of dining in disguise, passing herself off as a series of old ladies or visiting midwesterners, the kind of diners who are generally stuck at a table next to the gents' and find it impossible to attract the waiter's attention.
That work led to a few more collages on dance themes and, in 1940, to an odd experiment in which Matisse translated a new painting, "Still Life with Shell," of a seashell, apples, and serving vessels on a table, into pinned paper elements, with lengths of string for the table's edges.
In a large tent, in a field in Surrey, there is a rather odd experiment going on.
Edison (started small with financiers support, did "1000-odd" experiments and went on to create (invent) the light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures, DC electrification).
And when they do, results can be ruinous: consider Romera New York, which closed in March, only half a year old, after its odd gastronomic experiments drew poor reviews and ridicule.
Those are surprisingly good and the company loves to show them off with odd little experiments.
Cockerham runs a website called Cockeyed where he blogs about his different builds, odd science experiments, and public pranks, among other things.
