Word: labs
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...opers share not only household chores and homemade dinners but also unusual traditions. In their small computer lab, photos of their annual “Lingerie Study Break” show Co-opers in Lamont Library wearing not much more than purple body paint and underwear...
...recent work culminated with the implementation of the perennial Aquilegia (or columbine) flower as a new “lab rat” for genetic experiments...
...teams that our blockmates or best friends play for; we don’t wear crimson, black, and white in the press box; we usually avoid letting out a cheer when Harvard slams home the game-winner. (Usually.) And while it may be tough to report that our lab partner scored an own goal in last night’s loss, we bite the bullet and do it. (Usually.)It is in fact at the other end of the relationship spectrum that we seem to struggle more: serving as partners of and advocates for the athletes and coaches that...
...Kentucky, has found that study volunteers who are warned that a certain alcoholic drink will highly impair their performance on a psychomotor test actually do better on the test than people who are given the same drink but no information about impairment. In other words, at least in a lab setting, those who are led to believe that they're about to get truly blotto end up not letting themselves get so blotto. They don't perform as well on their tests as sober people, but they perform a lot better than the average drinker...
...trenches about 19 in. (.5 m) into the surface, a depth where scientists believe ice meets soil, and haul a sample onto the spacecraft. There, an instrument will heat the soil in tiny ovens, checking the resulting vapors for water and carbon compounds. An on-board chemistry lab with dual microscopes will add water to the sample and analyze the spectral and electrochemical results to check acidity, salt levels, and ion concentrations...