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In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a remarkable discovery now known as Wolff's Law: bone adapts to the stress placed upon it. When a...
In 1748, a violent storm nearly sank a slave ship crossing the Atlantic. The captain, a foul-mouthed, hard-drinking man named John Newton, cried out to...
In 2002, Renee Napier received the phone call every parent dreads. Her twenty-year-old daughter Meagan had been killed by a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge....
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that changed how we understand life itself. For decades, researchers...
In 2002, biochemist Dr. Charles Serhan at Harvard Medical School discovered a remarkable family of molecules he named "resolvins." Here is what they do: when...
In 1822, Charlotte Elliott attended a dinner in Brighton, England, where she met the visiting Swiss evangelist César Malan. When he asked whether she had...
In 2002, Renee Napier received the phone call every parent dreads. Her daughter Meagan had been killed by a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge. The...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled him for decades. He found that our...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a scene that has haunted readers for over 160 years. Jean Valjean, a convict hardened by nineteen years...
In 1772, an Anglican clergyman sat down to write a hymn for his small congregation in Olney, England. The words he chose stunned with their...
In the 1960s, Eric Clapton and George Harrison were the closest of friends — two guitar legends who jammed together, shared stages, and built a...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. The old bishop...
In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a study at Hope College that revealed something remarkable about what unforgiveness does to the human body....
In 2005, researchers at Ohio State University published a remarkable finding. Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser and her team gave small, standardized wounds to married couples, then...
Every surgeon who treats chronic wounds knows a counterintuitive truth: before a wound can heal, it must be made to hurt again. The procedure is...
In 2004, a team of neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by Dr. Richard Davidson, studied the brains of Tibetan monks who had spent...
Robert Robinson was a troublemaker. After his father died when Robert was eight, his mother sent him to London as a barber's apprentice, where he...
Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains tens of thousands of points of damage — from ultraviolet light, from the oxygen we...
In 2014, the European Court of Justice handed down a landmark ruling that changed the internet forever. A Spanish man named Mario Costeja González had...
In 2015, three scientists — Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar — received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping something astonishing: the molecular...
In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge killed two young women in a Florida car crash. One of them was twenty-year-old Meagan Napier. Her...
In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1668. The canvas...
When Bart Millard was growing up in Greenville, Texas, his father Arthur was a man ruled by rage. The beatings were frequent. The fear was...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand molecular injuries — damage from sunlight,...