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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 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 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...