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In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four young daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow once...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law demonstrates that when a bone fractures and heals,...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone, when it heals from a...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, somewhere near the spot where the SS *Ville du Havre* had...
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, completely deaf. He could not hear a single note of...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves,...
Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand molecular lesions — damage from ultraviolet light, environmental...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife containing...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those...
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...
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...
Bart Millard grew up afraid of his own father. Arthur Millard was violent and unpredictable, and Bart's childhood was shaped more by fear than by...
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 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 J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, after the catastrophic Battle of the Pelennor Fields, three beloved characters lie dying in the Houses of...
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 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 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. He demonstrated that when a bone fractures and heals, the...
In the early 1500s, the German painter Matthias Grünewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, France. This...
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...
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 selfish boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he...
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...