Billed as a startup incubator for political systems, the aquatic communities would serve as experiments in governance – and represent a rejection of what Seasteaders see as big government intrusion.
Because so much is held constant among their multitudinous sites, it is easy to designate which ones will serve as experiments and which will serve as controls and to attribute cause to effect.
The video starts with Farmer slowly walking in an laboratory in which many animals are captive to serve as experiments.
This DIY public-space project has been successful in bringing together a number of actors from both private and public sectors, serving as "an experiment for Mumbai", in Manohar's words.
In a news bulletin on the project, the team explains that the project may help develop advancements in "personalization or expert matching", serving as an experiment in both psychology and social interaction.
California's diverse environmental gradients serve as natural experiments for examining controls on soil mineral distribution in landscapes.
Two additional groups of SHRs (three rats each group) fasted for 12 h with and without TCS-OX2-29 treatment were served as control experiments.
Family studies of rare Mendelian syndromes or genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of common diseases can both serve as natural experiments that point to new targets to pursue (with PCSK9 being a celebrated example)4,24,25,26.
They often serve as thought experiments, little removed from the spacier kind of science fiction or fantasy, in which ideas about how society works can be subjected to unusual pressure.
A total of 80 Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) served as subjects (Experiment 1, n = 20; Experiment 2, n = 60).
"I worry that cases like these prevent States from serving as necessary laboratories for experimenting with how best to guarantee defendants a fair trial," she wrote.
