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Dubai also provides a rare chance to experiment with health care. On the one hand, because Dubai currently has no academic medical center, researchers get to see the actual effects of different initiatives on the quality of health care delivery, according to Golan. On the other hand, unlike other nations...
Now, current students will have the chance to experiment with the new curriculum—having the option to elect to fulfill requirements under Gen Ed or the Core. Though the choice is available for all, it represents a far more viable possibility for current freshmen.
Onen was also appalled by how his paper was misused, noting that the conditions of his experiment subjects had little in common with those of the CIA program. "[The study subjects] were distracted from sleeplessness by playing different games or watching soccer matches. They could eat, drink, read and move...
The success of the experiment made it all worthwhile. Over the course of each evening, Langford watched the earthshine brighten dramatically when sunlight bounced off the Indian Ocean and dim as the African continent rotated into view. The implications for the exoplanet search are profound: If we can see the...
And the experiment was surprisingly inexpensive: The whole set-up only cost about $15,000 - next to nothing for a piece of groundbreaking astronomical research. "Earthshine is such a simple idea that we have known about for such a long time," says Langford, "but it makes looking at Earth as...