Search Details

Word: randomization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...fact that all three acupuncture services, including the sham version with toothpicks, had about the same effect on pain reduction. It's worth remembering that the toothpicks were used at the same points involved in the standard acupuncture treatment - that is, practitioners were not pricking their patients at random. A year after the treatments, all of the acupuncture patients reported an average 63% improvement in pain relief, while half of the untreated patients reported feeling better. "Everyone agrees that acupuncture is having some physiological effect. But we still don't understand how it might be working," says Nahin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acupuncture for Bad Backs: Even Sham Therapy Works | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...Dancing technically started at ten, but people are still milling around the dining hall chatting it up and taking advantage of the open bar. All you need to drink is a friend or two over 21 or the balls to tug on some random senior’s sleeve till he or she finally relents and goes to the bar for you. Spreading love (and drink) that's the Kirkland...

Author: By Loren Amor, Aparicio J. Davis, and Esther I. Yi | Title: BALLin! FlyBy's Formal Reviews Pt. II | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

There's Lolcats, RolCats, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Maru, the cat with a blog. There are kittens on Cute Things Falling Asleep, Cute Overload, and The Random Kitten Generator. And now, thanks to a clip of a humiliated feline forced to play the piano, there is another one to add to the mix: the website called Play Him Off, Keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Actual Retail Price: Fairly uncertain. That first item may mean no exhibition games in random states next year or sleeping in buses for all we know...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Budget Plinko, Part I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Even weirder, the envelopes were enclosed with three awfully random circular insect stickers.  Inside?  A bunch of glitter and confetti...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Did You Receive This Package? | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | Next