Whether it's a cloud formation or a random arrangement of vegetables, some people have a knack for finding the eyes, nose and mouth that aren't really there, conjuring a smile or a frown within configurations of largely inanimate objects.
The causes are not known but probably include a combination of inherited bad genes, bad diet (too much fat and red meat, too few vegetables) and random genetic errors that occur as cells divide.
In the poison oracle, as the Azande's version of the criminal trial is known, a chicken is fed some random amount of a vegetable alkaloid: if it dies, the accused is guilty... Chickens are unswayed by racial or ethnic solidarity, cannot be influenced by inflammatory pretrial publicity, don't sign book contracts, and never conceal conflicts of interest.
Perhaps the new rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act, which were supposed to be issued last month, could move random testing of fruits and vegetables to the F.D.A.
We calculated summary RRs and 95% CIs for the highest compared to the lowest levels of fruits and vegetables intake using random effect models to account for anticipated heterogeneity.
Throw in some oddly shaped root vegetables, but scatter at random before eating.
Farming seeds give you random results, with plants producing either vegetables or fruits.
Call on a random audience member to say what vegetable he wrote down.
However, we expect this to be random and not related to fruit and vegetable intake.
Although the individual observed differences in serum PFOA removal rates between localities and water supply were not statistically significant and may simply reflect random variation, the significant effect of homegrown vegetable consumption on the apparent half-life is intriguing.
