How a Frog,Pipa pipa,Succeeds or Fails in Catching Fish

Catching Fish and Avoiding Sharks

Although researchers agree that the first 5 years of life are critical for children’s developing executive functions (EFs), further advances are hindered by a lack of consensus on the design and selection of developmentally appropriate EF tasks for young children. Given this debate, well-established adult measures of EF routinely have been adapted for young children. Given young children’s comp...

Anglers’ Probabilities of Catching Record-Size Fish

—Most state fishery management agencies publish lists of the largest (e.g., 10, 25, and 50) specimens of each species captured by anglers. We fitted normal distributions for smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu and striped bass Morone saxatilis and a mixture of two normal distributions of largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides to the length of time that individual fish had been present on lists ...

Why Fish Oil Fails to Prevent or Improve CVD: A 21st Century Analysis

In May 2013, The Risk and Prevention Study Collaborative Group (Italy) released a conclusive negative finding regarding fish oil for those patients with high risk factors but no previous myocardial infarction. Fish oil failed in all measures of CVD prevention—both primary and secondary. This study was so conclusive that Eric Topol, MD, editorin-chief of Medscape and Medscape’s Heartwire for car...

How the Law School Fails: A Polemic

The Norm Game - How a Norm Fails