"...and then we just left the centrifuge running," my postdoc told me on Monday, when I asked why the lab was empty. Nine people had gone to the break room to vote for Backpack. A centrifuge is a machine that spins things. It is still spinning.
Backpack and Bear #910 advanced to the Fat Bear Week final. Bucky Dent and Bear #132 did not. I want to be careful here and say only what the evidence supports. This is the most important thing that has ever happened.
Our own work was smaller. We spent nine years on it. Late on Monday morning it produced a way to keep bread fresh for a year. I wrote that down somewhere. It is in the drawer with the stapler.
We did keep a control group. Two technicians stayed at their benches and did not vote. They finished the experiment on time. Their result has a p-value of 0.001, which means you would get it by luck about once in a thousand tries. Nobody has asked to see it.
