Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TECHNOLOGY The Gullibility Experiment
Inspired by wild discrepancies in reports of earlier UFO sightings, Science Students Terry Warren, James Gould and Douglas Eardley decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas...
On four different nights, after walkie-talkie-equipped lookouts radioed that campus guards were out of sight, the students slipped out of the tunnel, lit the flares, and launched their experiment. As the balloons soared skyward, wind caught the fins on the dangling rods and started the burning flares rotating...
It was a worthy enough experiment, but it never got off the ground. Parliament immediately went into a long recess, and when it finally reconvened last month, an angry Mobutu all but put it out of business.
Smash Success. To beat the logistics problem and find out just how effective film can be when teachers can integrate it naturally into their instruction, E.B.F. and Bell & Howell Co. have sent $650,600 worth of films and new, automatic-threading sound projectors to schools in wealthy Shaker Heights, Ohio...