Erik Butler

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 5, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Emmanuelle Pouydebat |Erik Butler |Jeffrey McKinnon |Prosanta Chakrabarty

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. 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.

Jul 3, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Kendra Coulter |Emmanuelle Pouydebat |Erik Butler |Eva Meijer

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Fireworks have become a fixture of many celebrations around the world, from weddings to national holidays. But there are many among us, including the furry, feathered and finned, who feel fear with every thundering boom. Animal caretakers, wildlife rehabilitators and fire services see firsthand the damaging — and sometimes fatal — effects whenever and wherever fireworks are deployed.