Word: randomized
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...White House etiquette is any indication, you should be getting a random hug soon. The Obama family was always cuddly on the campaign trail, and last month the President bestowed no fewer than nine hugs on senior male staffers at a single meeting. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
Chau and Luu are not the first to experiment with a technique like this. In the terra incognita of cognitive research, brain-computer interfaces are increasingly common - but complicated. Typically, subjects have to be trained to use them and must rehearse a random, energy-intensive brain task like mentally singing a song in order to light up a pattern of brain activity that sends a signal to the researchers. The new technique extracts information much more directly by targeting the frontal lobe's preference functions. What's more, while other studies have required the subjects to activate their brains over...
...trivia game known as “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” the object is to start with a random actor, link to one of that actor’s co-stars, and then—in only five more steps—get to the ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon. In 2007, two Vanderbilt professors set out to find Bacon’s legal scholar analogue: someone famous who collaborates often in a variety of genres and who gives no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The man they selected is today’s most frequently...
...good, we’ll put it on the menu,” our waiter told us. Or rather, challenged us. As it turns out, he had told the bartender to come up with a rival concoction, and he would decide the winner based on a random taste test among other customers. After a few minutes of brainstorming, we called our waiter over.“Here you have it,” we told him. “The Obama: Kahlua, Vodka, Baileys, and coconut liqueur, served over ice. Kahlua for his black side, Vodka for his white side...
...Khan also claimed that the army had colluded in at least one nuclear transaction - a charge Musharraf angrily denied. The Islamabad High Court swiftly muzzled him in July 2008, denying any future access to the media. But over recent months, he began writing a regular newspaper column, "Random Thoughts," a platform he has used to rail against Musharraf's campaign against militancy and to fondly recall decades past, when he had the ear of Pakistan's leaders. Despite what she believes are restrictions on his ability to speak out, his wife says Khan will continue to write his column...