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... experiment is a terminal one , one has a corpse on his hands . Many localities have strict ordinances governing the kinds of materials that can be placed in garbage . The only alternative is to bury the remains . If you work in a uni ...
... experiment is a terminal one , one has a corpse on his hands . Many localities have strict ordinances governing the kinds of materials that can be placed in garbage . The only alternative is to bury the remains . If you work in a uni ...
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... experiment is a beautiful thing . It is an adventure , an expedition , a conquest . It commences with an act of faith , faith that the world is real , that our senses generally can be trusted , that ef- fects have causes , and that we ...
... experiment is a beautiful thing . It is an adventure , an expedition , a conquest . It commences with an act of faith , faith that the world is real , that our senses generally can be trusted , that ef- fects have causes , and that we ...
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... experiment . Glencannon had maintained that cats perspired through the soles of their feet so to test the hypothesis a cat was to be heated and then persuaded to walk across a piece of blot- ting paper . For reasons most plausibly ...
... experiment . Glencannon had maintained that cats perspired through the soles of their feet so to test the hypothesis a cat was to be heated and then persuaded to walk across a piece of blot- ting paper . For reasons most plausibly ...
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