Knowing when to stand down and when to stand up

Behavior: Knowing When to Walk Away, Knowing When to Run

A new model has been proposed indicating that humans and other animals weigh the metabolic cost of pursuit in deciding how fast to move toward a given reward, providing a powerful framework for understanding behavior.

Stand up to anonymity.

i had to turn off the television the other night. i watched “stand up for cancer” for over an hour and did not hear the word i was so desperately waiting to hear: nurse. Although i applaud the efforts of those who made history by getting the network giants to come together and tackle the national cancer epidemic in front of the American public, i could not bear to watch the show a minute longer...

Knowing When to Stop

When is a capitally charged defendant incompetent to stand trial?

Competence to stand trial is a functional test rather than a bright line test, which therefore requires a case and fact specific assessment of a client's abilities in context. This article discusses competence in the context of capital trial cases. There are serious potential pitfalls for the client when raising incompetence and the decision to do so must be based on the specific ways in which ...

Knowing when to let go

uring meiosis I, some mechanism must allow homologous chromosomes to separate while keeping sister chromatids paired until meiosis II. How does a cell make this distinction? On page 219, Rogers et al. propose that in C. elegans the aurora-B kinase AIR-2 is largely responsible for ensuring that cohesion between chromosomes breaks down at the proper place and time. The authors also identified add...