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In June of 1882, Scottish pastor George Matheson sat alone in his manse on the evening of his sister's wedding. Nearly blind since his university...
In 1917, Frederick Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the boundless love of God. He composed two verses easily enough, but the third...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of prison after nineteen years — hardened, bitter, and convinced no one could ever see him...
In 1992, neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma made a startling discovery. While studying motor neurons in macaque monkeys, they...
In 2012, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden discovered something remarkable about oxytocin, the hormone often called "the bonding chemical." When a parent holds...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment near the end of the long journey to Mount Doom when Frodo can...
In cardiac research laboratories, scientists have observed something that still stops people mid-sentence when they hear it for the first time. When individual heart muscle...