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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...
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 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...
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 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge crossed the center line and killed two young women — one of them Meagan Napier, just twenty...
In 2004, neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar at Harvard Medical School published groundbreaking research showing that meditation and sustained mental practice physically alter the structure of...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a well-meaning country doctor made a devastating mistake. Treating her inflamed eyes with warm mustard poultices, he permanently...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the wretched creature Gollum has been skulking behind the Fellowship in the darkness of...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping something extraordinary: the mechanisms by which our cells...
In 2004, a team of neuroscientists at University College London led by Dr. Tania Singer conducted a groundbreaking study on empathy and fairness using brain...
For nearly five centuries, the world assumed Michelangelo painted in somber, muted tones. The Sistine Chapel ceiling — that breathtaking expanse of biblical narrative —...
Every day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains tens of thousands of breaks — from ultraviolet light, metabolic stress, even the ordinary work...
In Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *Gilead*, the aging Reverend John Ames spends much of his life harboring quiet resentment toward his godson, Jack Boughton....
In Japan, there is an ancient art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...