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- Exposure to gentle green places can help calm our nervous systems. In Ukraine, war-torn families are trying "adventure therapy" to cope with the trauma of war. 🧪
- Butterflies are perhaps the most extensively traded animals on the planet. But perhaps counterintuitively, a lucrative market could spark conservation. 🧪
- Sea sponges are not supposed to move. At least scientists didn’t think they were. But they crawl at a fraction of a snail’s pace, altering the seafloor in their wake. 🧪
- You have never read a science book like The Body Has a Head by Gustav Eckstein. His descriptions of biological mechanisms take flight on metaphoric reveries that compare what’s going on inside our bodies to the carnival of life outside them. 🧪