And if it so happened, that a couple of maverick bioscience companies were tinkering with your patents and your technologies, you might overlook that as a distraction, an irrelevance.
By tinkering with the strength of the current, the temperature of the leads delivering it, and accentuating small shocks with artificial smells or colorful lights, scientists can trick you into tasting all sorts of flavors.
As with EPO, says Dr Tucker, the idea is to improve the all-important power-to-weight ratio- but by tinkering with the " weight" side of the equation instead of the " power" side.
William Mumler, an engraver by trade, had been tinkering with photography in a studio owned by his eventual wife, Hannah: a spiritualist medium and professional photographer.
After like 40 years of tinkering and prototyping, Harrison built a clock based around a spring made from this new kind of steel and these low friction bearings made from literal jewels and gems.
The results reveal that just as cold drinks lead to perceptions of social conditions being cold, tinkering with feelings of physical stability leads to perceptions of social instability.
The first generation of Fortissimo barley had not involved too much tinkering with the original genetics, so it was to the buzzing of bees that it responded.
In reality, so for the last, like, six, seventeen years of my life, I've been tinkering around trying to make money on the, on the internet in different ways.