Scientists , including some of those at the ipcc , have sometimes played along with this , looking for harbingers of catastrophe to act as goads to change .
He sometimes goads his wife into being neater by making only his half of their king-size bed , heaping the magazines and bills splayed across the kitchen counter into teetering stacks , or moving his wife 's mound of laundry across the room .
The government 's new " excellence initiative " goads them to differentiate still more , showering 1.9 billion on research programmes and nine " top universities " with promising " future concepts " .