Two wild and crazy Canadian science-policy geeks, Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, write about the slightly horrific and sometimes hilarious experiment they conducted on themselves.
While producing "hok-oo" calls, males adopted a threat posture, combined with flashing their eyelids, and they sometimes conducted a short dash towards the disturbance.
Sometimes the research that they conduct may not have immediate practical applications, but it is the ideas they generate that stimulate the rest of the scientific community.
Verizon and other large local telephone companies are required to allow competitors' employees free access to the locations they lease on their networks, although they sometimes conduct background checks or require special identification materials from these employees.
Full-factorial experimental designs have been used in soil erosion studies, but are time, cost and labor intensive, and sometimes they are impossible to conduct due to the increasing number of factors and their levels to consider.
Sometimes he conducts them; sometimes they crowd him out, at one point edging him right off a tower of boxes.
In summarising Ranjitsinhji's life at this time, Wilde suggests that his unreliability with money was quite calculated, and writes: "Many of his off-the-field exploits with A. C. MacLaren ... will probably never be known, but it seems clear that sometimes they were not averse to conducting themselves in the fashion of E. W. Hornung's fictional character Raffles, the cricketing burglar".
The studies also serve as a reminder that true experiments can sometimes be conducted in the field, cheaply; we should seize those opportunities when they arise, or create them.
Mr. Metcalfe, who sometimes led from the violin and sometimes conducted, and Jolle Greenleaf, the group's artistic director, who also sang the lead soprano part beautifully, had assembled an excellent group of performers.
