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Mar 29, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Christopher Mason |Immaculata De Vivo |Erika Nesvold |Emmanuelle Pouydebat

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. —Robert GoddardUntil 1992, when the first exoplanets were discovered, there had never been direct evidence of a planet found outside our solar system. Thirty years after this first discovery, thousands of additional exoplanets have been identified.

Mar 15, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Immaculata De Vivo |Geoffrey Engelstein |Marc Wittmann |Emmanuelle Pouydebat

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Being optimistic or pessimistic is not just a psychological trait or interesting topic of conversation; it’s biologically relevant. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that optimism may serve as a powerful tool for preventing disease and promoting healthy aging.

Jan 22, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Jillian Harris |Richard Louv |Emmanuelle Pouydebat |Brigitte Berg

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The French filmmaker Jean Painlevé (1902–1989) was one of the first people to plunge underwater with a camera and bring the subaquatic world to the screen.

Jan 12, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Richard Louv |Brigitte Berg |Emmanuelle Pouydebat |Erik Butler

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. At first glance, the topics of nature, children, and democracy may not seem related. But they are. To explain this relationship, let me start with a story I’ve told often in recent years. More than two decades ago, I visited Southwood Elementary, the grade school I attended when I was a boy growing up in Raytown, Missouri.

Jan 8, 2024 | popsci.com | Emmanuelle Pouydebat

SHARE This article was originally featured on MIT Press. There may be nothing unnatural in nature, but nature still encompasses much that seems fantastically strange—the amazingly multifarious sex lives of animals, for example.