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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 21, 2024 | bigthink.com | Immaculata De Vivo

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. People with an optimistic mindset are associated with various positive health indicators, particularly cardiovascular, but also pulmonary, metabolic, and immunologic.

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.

Sep 1, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Prosanta Chakrabarty |Peter Watts |Christopher Mason |Immaculata De Vivo

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. When my identical twins were born, I often pushed them around town in their huge orange double-wide stroller. Someone would eventually ask, “Twins?” “Yep, identical,” I’d reply, and sometimes I’d then get, “Boy and a girl?” and I would shake my head, thinking, “Don’t these folks know what ‘identical’ means?”But I was the one who had some learning to do.