Sentences with phrase «ambitious experiment»

An even more ambitious experiment, extending over a decade, came recently to fruition.

It was so successful that plans are now being finalised for a second, even more ambitious experiment in May next year.

On October 21, 2008, in accordance with some overly optimistic scheduling, 1,500 physicists and world leaders gathered outside Geneva to celebrate the inauguration of the biggest, most international, most expensive, most energetic, most ambitious experiment ever built.

«Ambitious experiments cast light on far reaches of periodic table.»

Those findings set the stage for REAP's most ambitious experiment yet.

Our stories will look at what's working — and what's not — in the nation's largest, most ambitious experiment with school decentralization.

Two big cities, Chicago and New York City, undertook ambitious experiments in ending social promotion.

In one the ELA's most ambitious experiments, researchers added tiny amounts of specially labelled mercury (about a sixth of a teaspoon) to Lake 658 and its watershed for seven years in a row to determine if direct inputs from air pollution, or runoff from wetlands or forests caused the most damage to fish.

You're looking at one, tiny piece of jeans giant Levi Strauss's (Change the World 2017 list, No. 11) ambitious experiment to improve the lives of the 25 million men and women in the world's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the process.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

The volunteer organizers of the 22 April 2017 march, an ambitious experiment in global science advocacy, were eager to learn all they could about the more than 1 million people who had participated.

The key to this discovery was an ambitious experiment that had researchers tracking mouse behavior and neural activity (via the head - mounted mini-microscopes) regularly for more than three months straight — a technical feat that scientists had not attempted before.

AN AMBITIOUS experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.

The center is part of an ambitious experiment Rozelle is leading that aims to find solutions to what he sees as a crisis of gargantuan proportions in China: the intellectual stunting of roughly one - third of the population.

More than a decade ago a group of New York City residents launched an ambitious experiment to build a park atop an expanse of abandoned elevated freight train tracks.

Dr. Eisenstein will describe these waves and the ambitious experiments that use them to extend our cosmological reach.

The movie is an ambitious experiment, but a long and tedious one, and our revels end long before Mazursky's.

Alonso and I appreciated this as an ambitious experiment.

Krizya and Ashanti, along with more than 5,200 fourth and seventh graders in fifty - eight city public schools, are part of an ambitious experiment to test whether paying students for grades improves their performance.

Elm City College Preparatory Middle School has emerged as the most likely seat of an ambitious experiment to reinvent K - 8 education with two - week - long student expeditions, daily martial arts, and a «huge» investment in technology.

An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high - performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer's findings in a recent report.

That's an ambitious experiment by my yardstick.

The first phase of Sprint Beyond the Book was an ambitious experiment that teamed up novelists, scholars, digital publishers and journalists to create a digital book featuring original writing, video and images in just 72 hours.

But due to unfortunate circumstances, Hartmann was booed offstage, never to attempt the ambitious experiment again.

Founded in 1977, The Fabric Workshop and Museum has developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely - recognized Artist in Residence Program, an extensive permanent collection of new work created by artists at the Workshop, in - house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming including lectures, tours, in - school presentations and student apprenticeships.

Starting with tomorrow's Airdrop, Icelanders can claim 31.8 auroracoins in one of digital currency's most ambitious experiments.