Word: experimentals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Decoction of Foxglove. All biographers of Erasmus Darwin are dependent on a contemporary account written by a poetess and neighbor, Miss Anna Seward, sometimes known as "the Swan of Lichfield." Anna carried on a lifelong flirtation with him (they exchanged playful love letters on behalf of their cats), and remembered...
Dr. Dement devised an ingenious experiment to find out what happens if a person is allowed to sleep his normal number of hours, but is not allowed to dream. His volunteers were awakened whenever their REMs indicated the beginning of a dream. Then they were allowed to fall asleep again...
Well, Smith girls loved it too. In a pool conducted this September by the Sophian, the semi-weekly Smith newspaper, 93% of the student body said they wanted interim continued. This was the third year of the experiment; the year in which its fate would be decided.
"Faculty vote kills Interim--'Nobel Experiment' Fails" wrote the Sophian on page one, and gave the experiment its last elegy on the editorial page. No reasons were given by the faculty for its decision.
Before the experiment started, Sloan-Kettering doctors satisfied themselves there was no danger that any of the subjects would contract cancer. What the doctors wanted to measure was the rate of cancer-cell rejection. But the fact that patients were not told the exact nature of the injections made the...