Word: tricked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It's true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a set of tiny robotic Pied Pipers that can trick roaches into following them - even to places where a sensible roach would never venture. But the research they've just described in Science has to do not with extermination strategy but with understanding how roaches make decisions. "When you observe cockroaches," says Halloy, "you see that they...
...same shelter. That they huddled is no surprise, since roaches like to gather in crowds. But since cockroaches don't have enough intelligence to allow for leadership skills or even communication, the fact that they collectively decide on one shelter looks, says Halloy, "like a kind of magic trick...
...critical-mass hypothesis has merit, Halloy and his co-workers figured they should be able to trick the roaches into doing something unnatural. To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything...
Some sites are harder to crack, and Indonesia has a reputation for fraud now that precedes its online shoppers. More and more merchants around the world refuse to ship to Indonesia. But the "carders" of Bandung have found a way around that. The trick is not to identify themselves as Indonesian. The credit cards they use are usually from other countries. When a carder provides the shipping information, he makes up a name and street address, leaving off his country's name and asking instead that the merchandise be sent to "Java West, India" or "Bound Dungs, Australia." The carder...
...conditioning and getting stronger because I knew that would help me once we got to games,” she says. “I think that defensively, I’ve gotten a lot better.”The extra effort Moretzsohn put into her play did the trick. She became more confident on the court and began to emerge as a dominant player last season.“She’s 6’7, she has an unbelievable hook shot, and now she’s catching passes that she’s never caught before...