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In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge crossed the center line and killed two young women — one of them Meagan Napier, just twenty...
In 2001, Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that should give every grudge-holder pause. She asked participants to think about someone...
Every day, each cell in your body sustains up to one hundred thousand DNA lesions — damage from sunlight, from oxygen, from the simple act...
In 2002, Renée Napier received the phone call every parent dreads. Her daughter Meagan had been killed by a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge. The...
In 2014, the European Court of Justice handed down a landmark ruling now known as "the right to be forgotten." A Spanish citizen named Mario...
In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a landmark study on what happens inside the human body when we refuse to...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a newly released convict named Jean Valjean stumbles through a world that wants nothing to do with him. Every inn...
In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that changed how scientists understand forgiveness. She asked participants to recall someone...
Every version of Git, the software that tracks every change programmers make to their code, keeps a complete history. Every mistake, every broken line, every...
In 2012, singer-songwriter Matthew West released a song called *Forgiveness* after hearing a story that stopped him cold. A young woman named Meagan Napier had...
In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt van Rijn's final masterpieces — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, painted around 1668....
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that changed how we understand life itself. He found that...
In 1758, a twenty-two-year-old Englishman named Robert Robinson sat down and wrote one of the most beloved hymns in Christian history: *Come, Thou Fount of...
In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1668, near the...
Surgeons have long understood something remarkable about abscesses. When infection pools beneath the skin, the body walls it off, forming a pocket of pressure and...
In August 2014, thirteen-year-old Mo'ne Davis became the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series history. Her seventy-mile-per-hour fastball made her...
Every day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains tens of thousands of breaks — from ultraviolet light, metabolic stress, even the ordinary work...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied hot mustard poultices to her inflamed eyes. The treatment destroyed her...
In the world of art, there is a term that bridges the studio and the sanctuary. It is called pentimento — from the Italian pentirsi,...
Surgeons have long understood a principle that the rest of us resist: a wound must be debrided before it can heal. Debridement — the careful...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles into the home of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. The bishop feeds him, gives him...
In emergency rooms around the world, surgeons face a counterintuitive decision when treating deep lacerations. The instinct — for patient and doctor alike — is...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage — from sunlight, from...