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Click here to read the Step 2 version of this story. John watched the river. The water was green and blue and full of fish. He looked at the leaves on the trees and the long, green grass. They were moving slowly in the quiet wind. This was a beautiful place. But suddenly, John heard [...]

Read this story at Step 3 Doctor Harry Harlow made a difficult puzzle. At least he thought it was difficult. On a block of wood, he placed a metal catch called a hinge. A hinge is a piece of metal joined to a door. It allows the door to open and shut. On this hinge, [...]

by Daniel Pink (TED) Creative Commons Word Count Tracking by BeeOasis.com I need to make a confession at the outset here. A little over 20 years ago I did something that I regret, something that I’m not particularly proud of, something that, in many ways, I wish no one would ever know, but here I [...]

A light wind blew through the garden and shook the trees. From one tree, an apple fell and hit the ground. Isaac heard the sound, and it disturbed his thoughts. At the time, he was walking in his mother’s garden, and the apple had fallen from a nearby tree. Isaac began to contemplate some questions. [...]

A light wind blew through the garden and shook the trees. From one tree, an apple fell and hit the ground. Isaac heard the sound, and it disturbed his thoughts. At the time, he was walking in his mother’s garden, and the apple had fallen from a nearby tree. Isaac began to wonder. Why did [...]

  There was once a rich man whose wife died. She left him with one little girl. After some years, he married again. He hoped to give his child a mother’s love and care. His second wife had lost her husband by death, and she had two grown-up daughters. The new wife was beautiful, but [...]

Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees These sad words open the song “Strange Fruit.” The song was written by Abel Meeropol, and it was sung and made famous by Billie Holiday. The words [...]

When people ask about English language ability, what is their first question? Usually, they ask this. “Can you speak English?” The total number of native English speakers in the world today is around 375,000,000 people. And about a billion people are learning English. The Economist, a news magazine, said this amazing thing about the future [...]

Change in 59 Seconds By Professor Richard Wiseman BeeOasis Step 3 59 Seconds is about the science of self-help. So one part of the book explodes commonly held myths. So for example, the idea that to motivate yourself, you have to visualize the perfect you. From a scientific perspective, that’s a disaster. What you want [...]

Get Your Goals By Richard Wiseman BeeOasis Step 3 I tracked the lives of 5,000 people as they attempted to achieve their New Year’s resolutions. Now most of them failed, but ten percent did obtain their aims and ambitions. But what were they doing that was so different? Well it all came down to five [...]

At the start of every year, millions of people make new resolutions. This means that they promise themselves to do something differently, or to try something new. For example, many people want to lose weight, quit smoking, or change another bad habit. Others want to learn a new skill or get better at an old [...]

Once upon a time, there lived a King and Queen who had no children. Every day they prayed for a child. Finally, a daughter was born, and in their joy, they held a great celebration. For the celebration, the King invited all the fairies in his kingdom except one. There were thirteen fairies in the [...]

Once upon a time, there were three bears. They lived together in a little house in the middle of the woods. One of them was a Little Bear. One was a Middle-Sized Bear, and the other was a Big Bear. Every morning the bears ate *porridge for breakfast, and they each had their own pot [...]

by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. These pennies were saved one and two at a time. To save this money, she had to fight with the vegetable man, the meat man, and all the sales people in every store. Three times Della [...]

There once was a man who worked as a Merchant at sea. He had many ships, and he was rich. He had three daughters. The youngest was so beautiful that everyone called her Beauty. This made the two older sisters jealous. They were mean and rough by nature. They didn’t love their younger sister, and [...]

The following is a summary of a famous quote from Steve Jobs. Usually, people remember the part “Great artists steal.” But this is really about how to make “the best things.” It also shows how Steve Jobs blended the arts and sciences. Simple Version BeeOasis Step 1 It comes down to this. Try to open [...]

The students stared at the lights on the scoreboard. Through their tears, the numbers were hard to see. They rubbed their eyes in disbelief. But the numbers still read Notre Dame – 71, UCLA – 70. It was impossible, even unbelievable. Between January 30, 1971, and January 17, 1974, UCLA did not lose one game. [...]

John watched the river flow. The water was green and blue and full of fish. He looked at the leaves on the trees and tall grass. They were moving softly in the quiet wind. This was a beautiful and wild place. But suddenly John heard a crack in the woods. When he turned to look, [...]

So for the past year and a half, my team at Push Pop Press and Charlie Melcher and Melcher Media have been working on creating the first feature-length interactive book. It’s called “Our Choice” and the author is Al Gore. It’s the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” and it explores all the solutions that will [...]

These rocks have been hitting our earth for about three billion years, and are responsible for much of what’s gone on on our planet. This is an example of a real meteorite, and you can see all the melting of the iron from the speed and the heat when a meteorite hits the earth, and [...]