### Chinese (Sino-Japanese) Buddhism in general, and Chan (Zen) in particular, are very different kettles of fish from Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. The Daoist influence gives it a whole new flavour. Chan certainly inherits a story about emptiness from Indian Buddhism, though. And though it may put a whole new spin on it, we take it that it preserves the structural features about emptiness which gener...

In the current issueofHumanReproduction vanDorp et al. (2013) provide uswith seminal evidence about a serummarker that purportedly informs us about current and future ovarian function. Current dogma attributes to this marker the ability to determine the number of primordial follicles remaining in the ovary. The findings in this publication force us to reconsider this long-held view. I congratul...

Man’s highly developed constructive curiosity and his capacity for communication are two of the attributes distinguishing him from all other animals. Man alone has sought to understand the whole living world and things beyond his own environment and to pass his knowledge on to others. Consequently, when he discovers or invents something new he also creates a new word, or words, in order to be a...

The randomised block design is used mainly to increase the power of an experiment by matching experimental units receiving different treatments. It is widely used in many disciplines where it is known by at least eight different names. One of these, “within subjects” is confusing because the term subjects has to be defined to fit the design and another “repeated measures”, is confusing because ...