Word: experimentalism
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“It’s an extra year of their life and it’s a terrible thing, but when you try and do anything for the first time you have to be prepared for something unexpected,” said Thomas J. LeCompte, the physics coordinator...
States also may be better at innovating on delivery and payment reform, working with local health-care providers to make care more efficient and affordable. "It's very hard for the feds to experiment," says Rhode Island's Koller. "What we can do much better is work with providers and...
If the Elisas and Jorges and Angelicas of this era are fated to go the way of the Moeshes and Mitzis of an earlier one, the consolation is that with such nominative extinction comes melting-pot belonging. That's always been at the heart of the American experiment - and it...
A study published last year in The Journal of Physiology revealed the long-term effect of food imprinting. In the experiment, half of the pregnant and nursing animals were given a balanced diet of healthy foods. The other half ate some healthy food, as well as a large amount of...
A cross-disciplinary gaggle of Nobel Laureates and Ig Nobel Laureates gathered in Sanders on Thursday for the 2009 Ig Nobels, honors bestowed on "achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK [sic]." While Thursday's ceremony was indeed goofy and thought-provoking, the traditional 60...