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In the early 1990s, scientists sealed themselves inside Biosphere 2, a massive glass enclosure in the Arizona desert designed to replicate Earth's ecosystems. They controlled...
On a sweltering July night in 1893, a young man named James Cornish staggered into Provident Hospital in Chicago with a knife wound to the...
In 2012, a young engineer at Knight Capital Group watched in horror as a software deployment gone wrong burned through $440 million in forty-five minutes....
In 1939, contralto Marian Anderson was already celebrated as one of the greatest singers in the world. Conductor Arturo Toscanini had declared hers "a voice...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on a ship bound for England. He planned to join them later. Partway across the...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched across...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that changed how we understand the human body. He found that bones are not static structures...
In the 1950s, British scientists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley inserted tiny electrodes into squid nerve fibers to study how electrical signals travel through the...
In 1929, a twenty-five-year-old German surgeon named Werner Forssmann was convinced that a thin tube could be safely guided into the chambers of a living...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall did something his colleagues considered reckless, perhaps absurd. He believed stomach ulcers — long blamed on stress,...
In 1984, Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall had a theory no one would believe. He was convinced that most stomach ulcers were caused by a spiral-shaped...
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 2010, neuroscientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel made a remarkable discovery about the human brain. Dr. Yadin Dudai and his team...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall was certain he had discovered the true cause of most stomach ulcers — not stress or spicy...
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 Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, the children despise old Mrs. Dubose. She is bitter, sharp-tongued, and shouts insults from her porch every time...
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 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 George MacDonald's beloved fantasy *The Princess and the Goblin*, a young princess named Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a nearly...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that still haunts readers over a century later. Jean Valjean, the former convict, has rebuilt his...
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 finds himself alone on a mountain pass in total darkness. He is exhausted, lost, and...