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Every day, inside each cell of your body, something catastrophic is happening. Your DNA suffers between ten thousand and one hundred thousand breaks and lesions...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a released convict named Jean Valjean stumbles through a world that wants nothing to do with him. Every inn turns...
If you have ever made a wrong turn while using Google Maps, you know what happens next. There is no lecture. No guilt trip. No...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, Edmund Pevensie is a traitor. He has sold out his siblings for Turkish Delight, allied...
In Shusaku Endo's novel *Silence*, a Portuguese missionary named Father Rodrigues faces an impossible choice in seventeenth-century Japan. The authorities have captured Japanese Christians and...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for revealing something astonishing about your body. Every single day,...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions. Radiation, toxins, even the ordinary...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean arrives at the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. He is bitter, hardened, and turned...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping how our cells repair damaged DNA. Their research...
In the Japanese art of *kintsugi*, when a ceramic bowl shatters, the artisan does not discard it. Instead, the broken pieces are carefully gathered and...
Every driver knows the moment. You miss the exit on the highway, or you deliberately take a turn the GPS didn't recommend, and you brace...
By the time John Newton reached his eighties, his body was failing him. The former slave trader turned Anglican clergyman was nearly blind. His memory,...
In bone marrow transplantation, something happens that sounds more like theology than medicine. After a donor's marrow is infused into a patient whose own immune...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, young Edmund Pevensie commits the ultimate betrayal. Lured by Turkish Delight and empty promises, he...
In 2012, marine biologist Edith Widder solved a mystery that had eluded scientists for decades. She captured the first footage of a giant squid in...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, Edmund Pevensie sells out his own family. Lured by enchanted Turkish Delight and the White...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean arrives at the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. No inn will...
When I was a young boy, my grandfather owned a small cabin deep in the woods. Every summer, my family would visit, and I loved exploring the trails and playing in the stream nearby. But one particular night, I found...
In his final years, John Newton — the former slave trader turned Anglican priest who penned *Amazing Grace* — watched his memory dissolve. The man...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the treacherous creature Gollum has been trailing the fellowship. He turns to Gandalf and...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had quietly revolutionized biology. He proved that our DNA...
In the world of hematology, one of the most astonishing facts about bone marrow transplantation is what happens after engraftment. When a patient receives a...
In Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment*, Raskolnikov commits a horrific murder and then spirals through hundreds of pages of guilt, paranoia, and isolation. He is convinced...
In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that sounds more like theology than medicine. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's healthy marrow, the...