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When Michelangelo stood before a raw block of Carrara marble, he did not see emptiness. He saw a person waiting to emerge. He once described...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard of treasure, and wakes up...
Fanny Crosby lost her sight as an infant due to a doctor's error. She would never see a sunset, a page of sheet music, or...
In the early 1960s, a physicist named Lawrence Kersta at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed a technique called voice spectrography — a way of visualizing the...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean is a man defined by a number. Nineteen years in prison for stealing bread have reduced him to...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the insufferable boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes up transformed into...
In Margery Williams' beloved children's story *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed toy asks the old Skin Horse a question that haunts every human heart: "What...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his...
Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable songs in modern worship — *Awesome God* — and watched it become an anthem sung in churches...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man posing as a doctor applied the wrong poultice to her infected eyes and left her permanently...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a man claiming to be a doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her infected eyes. The treatment...
In 1892, Sir Francis Galton published his groundbreaking work on fingerprints, demonstrating what forensic science has confirmed ever since: no two human fingerprints are identical....
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard, clutching a golden bracelet,...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean has spent nineteen years in prison. When he is finally released, his yellow passport marks him as a...
In the 1660s, Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam made a stunning discovery. He carefully dissected a caterpillar and found, hidden inside its body, the folded beginnings...
In the seventeenth century, Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam made a startling discovery while dissecting caterpillars. Hidden inside their soft bodies, he found the folded beginnings...
Over the course of his lifetime, Rembrandt van Rijn painted, etched, and drew nearly one hundred self-portraits — more than any major artist before him....
In the world of bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens to the recipient's identity at the cellular level. After a successful transplant, the patient's blood...
Every iPhone ships with a unique identifier burned into its hardware at the factory — a string of letters and numbers called a UDID. You...
Inside a chrysalis, something remarkable happens. The caterpillar doesn't simply sprout wings — it dissolves. Its body breaks down into what biologists call a near-formless...