Sentences with phrase «usual laboratory conditions»

We couldn't quite believe that budget hardware maker Kogan was able to sell a 5 ″ Android phone for # 119 plus delivery from Hong Kong so had to get one to have a look at the thing under our usual LABORATORY CONDITIONS.

We couldn't quite believe that budget hardware maker Kogan was able to sell a 5 ″ Android phone for # 119 plus delivery from Hong Kong so had to get one to have a look at the thing under our usual LABORATORY CONDITIONS.

Not exact matches

Laboratory science has its usual pitfalls, and now add these: low temperature and high wind, reagents that never made it to Antarctica, unpredictable weather conditions that delay or cut short trips to your test site because it's dangerous to fly a helicopter in a snowstorm, Weddell seals that won't let you fish in your fishing hole, the unavoidable distraction presented by a troop of curious penguins, and... well, you get the picture.

Why do we set aside our usual experience as delusive in contrast with the exceptional experience of the laboratory — why do we decide that an event which has seemed to happen can not really have happened, because under the given conditions no adequate cause of it could have been operative — if the relation of cause and effect is itself merely a succession of seemings, repeated so often as to leave behind it a lively expectation of its recurrence?