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In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch offers his children a definition of courage that has echoed through generations. After the death of...
In 1984, Australian physician Barry Marshall had a theory that nearly every gastroenterologist in the world rejected: stomach ulcers weren't caused by stress or spicy...
In 1612, the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi stood before a Roman court, enduring a public trial that would have silenced most people forever. She had...
In 2010, neuroscientist Uri Nili and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science made a remarkable discovery about what happens inside the human brain...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his children about the bravest person he ever knew. It wasn't a soldier or a...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, three travelers find themselves trapped underground with the Queen of Underland. She lights an enchanted fire, fills the room...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch gives his son Jem a definition of courage that has haunted readers for generations. After the...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, there is a scene that stops the neighborhood cold. A rabid dog staggers down a quiet Alabama street,...
In the early 1500s, the German painter Matthias Grunewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, France —...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch offers his son Jem a definition of courage that every believer should carry in their heart....
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Jem Finch believes his father Atticus is the bravest man in Maycomb County after watching him drop...
In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall faced a medical establishment that refused to believe him. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren had discovered that stomach...
In 2010, neuroscientist Yadin Dudai and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science made a remarkable discovery about what happens inside the brain when...
Every blogger, every YouTuber, every podcaster knows the moment. You have spent hours crafting something that matters to you — something pulled from the deepest...
In January 2007, Steve Jobs walked onto the Macworld stage to introduce the iPhone — a device that would reshape how billions of people communicate....
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, the Pevensie children hear about Aslan for the first time and ask Mr. Beaver a...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his children something they don't yet understand. After the cantankerous old Mrs. Dubose dies, he...
Every software developer knows the terror of clicking "Deploy." You've tested your code, reviewed it line by line, but there's always that moment of raw...
In 2010, neuroscientist Dr. Yadin Dudai and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel conducted a remarkable study on fear and courage....
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Scout asks her father why he agreed to defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused in...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. He found that human bone tissue actually remodels itself in...
In 2011, researchers at the University of California San Diego captured something remarkable on video for the first time. When a wound opens in living...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Horse and His Boy*, young Shasta spends most of the story running away. He is afraid of lions, afraid of the...