Word: methods
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...play at gunpoint, Rubin is neither crazy nor intimidating. Unlike Robert (Mutt) Lange, the obsessive genius behind AC/DC and Shania Twain, he has never ordered 80 consecutive vocal takes of a one-syllable lyric. "Those guys have made some of my favorite records," says Rubin. "But they had their method, and I have mine...
...graduate student at Cambridge University, where he began his career doing fieldwork in Brunei. Ashton wanted to understand how different species of trees were able to randomly mix in the same environment and coexist without competing. He pioneered the strategy of building plots and studying them—a method already common in agriculture—in the study of tropical forests. Ashton continued to do work in Asia throughout his career. Stuart J. Davies, a former advisee of Ashton’s and the current science director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science-Arnold Arboretum Asia Program, said...
...diamond semiconductor is no easy feat. Rather than trying to mimic the conditions under which diamond is generated deep in the earth, Apollo, Element Six and most of the other leading diamondmakers are relying on a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD). It's a low-pressure, high-temperature method that uses heat energy from plasma and a combination of gases to rain carbon atoms on a starter seed of the gem, which gradually grows into a larger single-crystal diamond. CVD produces a more uniform, consistent diamond in sizes large enough to make an effective transistor. Using the diamond...
...contrary, we assert that human embryonic stem cells hold great promise to find new treatments and cures for diseases,” the researchers wrote. The DPC publication cited research contained in an August 2005 Science article in which the Harvard researchers discovered a method for “reprogramming” adult cells into embryonic stem cells by fusing an adult and embryonic cell together to form a new hybrid cell with the characteristics of an embryonic stem cell. The DPC report claims that this research justifies President George W. Bush’s current stem cell policy that...
...Jerome brothers are screaming at each other about how to write a radio skit. Eugene, the younger, keeps tossing out what he thinks are funny situations. Stanley insists on order and method. The keys to comedy, he says, are "conflict" and "wanting," and every detail must make sense. Eugene demands, "It's just a comedy sketch. Does it have to be so logical?" Stanley, the self-appointed teacher, replies, "It's not funny if it's not believable...