Pollsters might want to add weight to the clipboards they give people, for one.
Social bookmarking: Consider E-mail to be the digital age equivalent to being hassled by petitioners with clipboards on street corners.
"What the Army sociologists, with their clipboards and their questions and their endless meta-analyses slowly came to understand was that courage was love," Mr Junger writes.
Apparently there are men with clipboards keeping track of the planes circling the airport and men on quad bikes guiding the aircraft into the limited parking space once they land.
Sometimes science doesn't take place in a sterile lab, with beakers and pipettes and clipboards and test tubes, but out in nature, with lots of electrical tape and one very angry crocodile.
