Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The initial, unsupervised groups of 10 were instructed to continue meeting on their own once a week in order to experiment with an instance of failed leadership and to have a class member become a leader by conducting the meeting. During the course's group meetings, each person fills out...
Perhaps the most intense experiences are those of the unofficial section leaders, who tend to approach the problems at hand through markedly different strategies from one another. "Some leaders pass out agendas," while others take a less structured role, says second year K-Schooler Steven Nicholas. "It is a chance...
Nichols concedes that many people think that "the class is collectively lying on the couch." But he says it would be simplistic to assume that "we--the class--were always the subject of the experiment, and he the technician."
The experiment was proposed by Purdue University Sophomore John Vellinger, a winner of NASA's 1983 national space competition. He hypothesized that an embryo would develop better in space than on earth because it would not be influenced by gravity. Chicken eggs were chosen because the incubation period is just...
STILL NOT CONVINCED? After hours of exhaustive interviews with zoologists and anthropologists, I have learned that elves do not exist; never have, never will. If you are shocked by that, then hold on: reindeer cannot fly. This was proven in an experiment conducted in a Norwegian fjord in 1908 by...