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The Lead Climber's Rope

In 2013, mountaineer Conrad Anker led a team up the treacherous southwest face of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. The route had never been completed....

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The Load-Bearing Wall

In 2019, a couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, hired a contractor to open up their cramped kitchen. They wanted the wall between the kitchen and...

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The Night Blaise Pascal Stopped Thinking and Started Knowing

On November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal — a man who had already revolutionized geometry, invented the mechanical calculator, and dazzled the...

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Pandita Ramabai and the Temples That Breathe

In 1889, Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India, a refuge for child widows and girls rescued from temple prostitution. Ramabai,...

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The First Victory That Promised the Last

In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...

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The Day the Bells Rang for Salk

On April 12, 1955, scientists at the University of Michigan announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." Within minutes, church bells...

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Mission Control Never Signs Off

When astronaut Scott Kelly began his 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015, he didn't drift through space alone. Every day, hundreds of...

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The Doctor Who Defeated Death's Oldest Weapon

In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...

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The Bee Sting That Lost Its Power

In 2019, a beekeeper named Sarah Mapelli stood on a stage in Portland, Oregon, with twenty thousand honeybees crawling across her bare skin. The audience...

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The Fortress That Fell From Behind

In February 1942, British commanders in Singapore believed their position was unassailable. They called it "the Gibraltar of the East." Over 80,000 troops were garrisoned...

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The Tinker Who Outshone the Theologians

In 1660, a traveling mender of pots and pans sat in a cold Bedford jail cell, convicted for preaching without a license. John Bunyan had...

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The Sinking Skyscraper

In 2016, residents of San Francisco's Millennium Tower noticed something unsettling — their doors wouldn't close properly. Engineers discovered the 58-story luxury high-rise had sunk...

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The Artist Who Was Enriched Beyond the Canvas

In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads in London. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in England, had told her she could become...

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The Cure Made from the Venom

At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...

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The Heart That Beat Twice

In 2018, a nineteen-year-old college student named Jordan Rice received a new heart after three years on the transplant waiting list at Emory University Hospital...

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The Telescope at Griffith Observatory

On a Friday evening in Los Angeles, a line of visitors snakes up the steps of Griffith Observatory to peer through the Zeiss telescope. A...

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The Mechanic Who Could Listen to Engines

In 1987, a Toyota dealership in Lexington, Kentucky hired a mechanic named Earl Combs who had no formal training. He had never attended a single...

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The Tower That Began to Lean

In 1173, builders in Pisa, Italy, broke ground on a magnificent bell tower for their cathedral. The white marble structure was designed to stand nearly...

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The Letter in Margaret Chen's Mailbox

Every Tuesday for eleven years, a letter arrived at Margaret Chen's apartment in Seattle — handwritten on cream stationery, postmarked from Topeka, Kansas. Her college...

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The Foundation Stone of St. Paul's

When Christopher Wren began rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666, he faced a decision that would determine the fate...

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The Bee That Lost Its Sting

Margaret Chen had been terrified of bees since she was seven years old — the summer a yellow jacket crawled into her Kool-Aid and introduced...

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The Sadhu Who Silenced the Theologians

When Sundar Singh arrived at Cambridge University in 1920, the faculty expected little. Here was an Indian sadhu in a saffron robe and bare feet...

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The Untrained Preacher Who Shook London

In 1854, a nineteen-year-old with no seminary degree and no formal ordination stepped into the pulpit of London's New Park Street Chapel. The deacons who...

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The Honeybee's Final Sting

When a honeybee drives its barbed stinger into human skin, something remarkable happens. The stinger tears away from the bee's abdomen, taking with it a...