Probably a quicker option is to soak off all the soil, pick those with nice equal length roots then arrange against a cleanly cut block of earth. There's no more radishes either side so you'd have to plant a fair few lines so you'd end up with one with such a neat row I reckon.
With you on this, only ever known shoes off bar the odd occasion where I'm there for work and will only be a few minutes. I ask of course before traipsing around!
I'll be in the wheelie bin out back. I'll tell you how much fun I had when they emptied the hairy food scraps that'd been trampled into the floor (collected from other film screenings of course) onto me and you'll be jealous.
That was exactly my thought as soon as I read the part "...our individual behavior patterns can be erratic and unpredictable, but groups of people, even small groups, are highly predictable."! On book 3 at moment.
Although they're not publicly putting out predictions, I bet many many models have been run to see how things pan out along side reality. Advertising is just step one. Using that advertising and algorithms to push a message, step two...etc. Though that of course introduces designing the future using Psychohistory, rather than predicting whilst observing (edit to remove- "only as per the books (at least as far as I have got)") bar the instructions to the other Psychohistorians.
I guess Coop is still the main character even though he's not in it much, so maybe Dougie? Or would it actually be Laura Palmer?!