Word: randomizations
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...take pictures of random stars; and the astronomers, though they kept their mouths shut, seemed more starry-eyed than usual after the big telescope's initial performance. The man to whom the moment meant most may have been Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, whose specialty is space. Years ago, using the 100-in. telescope on Mt. Wilson, he had explored the known frontiers of the universe. He found a baffling mystery: the distant nebulae (clouds containing billions of stars) seemed to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, as if the whole universe were convulsed by one vast...
...researchers had collared a few random facts, for what they might be worth. The cold virus can stand a lot of cold: it survived temperatures as low as -94° Fahrenheit. The virus' diameter is estimated to be one ten-thousandth of a millimeter (about the size of the influenza virus...
...dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate. In fact, they say, "Phooey...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...
...Random samplings of comments made by both graduate and College students reveal that they feel the lack of skillful cooking makes food generally unpalatable. That improvements in quality would prevent continued food waste is the consensus...