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In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, there is a boy named Eustace Scrubb who is so consumed by greed that he falls...
Every day, inside each one of your cells, your DNA sustains roughly seventy thousand points of damage. Heat, ultraviolet light, the simple chemical chaos of...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the selfish boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he...
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's *The Secret Garden*, young Colin Craven has spent his entire childhood confined to a darkened bedroom, convinced he is dying. Servants...
In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed one of the most extraordinary works in Christian art — the Isenheim Altarpiece. What...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he has...
Jeremiah asked a question born of despair: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" The prophet looked at a broken nation...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a country doctor placed hot mustard poultices on her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her sight permanently....
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's treasure hoard and wakes to discover...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to find he has...
The prophet Jeremiah asked a question heavy with despair: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" He looked at the brokenness...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The treatment was wrong. The damage...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna that read simply: "Saved alone." Their four daughters — Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that should stop every one of us in our tracks....
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a scene that has stayed with readers for generations. After the great battle before Minas...
In June 2022, a micrometeorite struck one of the eighteen gold-plated mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope — a ten-billion-dollar instrument orbiting nearly...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a breathtaking discovery: your body is repairing itself right...
In 1999, scientists studying Yellowstone National Park made a remarkable discovery. Four years after wolves were reintroduced to the park, the entire ecosystem had begun...
In Japan, there is an ancient art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb is transformed into a dragon by his own greed. He is miserable,...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. Known as Wolff's Law, it describes how bone tissue remodels...