Sentences with phrase «sort of social experiment»

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

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I am lucky to be conducting all sorts of social science experiments in my house by having one child of each gender.

«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.

By genetically modifying the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, the microbiologists from UNIGE are able to conduct all sorts of experiments on the mechanisms of the innate immune system.

Another doc chronicling a social experiment of sorts is «Splinters,» which follows the introduction of surfboarding into an island culture of Papua New Guinea, which is not really ready for the Western transformation the sport of surfing is going to bring to their remote seaside village of Vanimo.

Solar power is no new phenomenon, although given Congress's approach to renewable energy, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was still some sort of «social experiment», not a world saving phenomenon.

Call it an experiment of sorts in social blogging, community and dialogue in using a specific example to explore the topic of the adoption of technology by lawyers.