ScienceTake: What a Frog Needs to Make That Leap
Frogs are terrific jumpers. Ask any child who has tried to catch one. Or read Mark Twain’s story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” It helped make his name as a writer. Like Twain, Chris Richards, a researcher at Harvard, came to frogs early, as a first-year graduate student. Like Twain, he writes about…