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In 1967, Louis Armstrong walked into a recording studio and sang *What a Wonderful World*. The timing seemed almost absurd. America was tearing itself apart...
In 1917, Frederick Lehman sat down in Pasadena, California, to write a hymn about the immensity of God's love. He composed the first two verses...
In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center made a remarkable discovery. When they examined the brain tissue of women who had passed...
In 2006, neuroscientist Dr. James Coan at the University of Virginia conducted a remarkable experiment. He placed married women inside an fMRI machine and warned...
In 1984, Stevie Wonder and Dionne Warwick recorded "That's What Friends Are For," a song originally written for a film soundtrack that nobody noticed. It...
In the early days of the internet, engineers faced a fundamental problem: how do you get millions of different computers, built by different manufacturers, running...
In 2011, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made a remarkable discovery. Dr. Leslie Seltzer and her team found that when a stressed child hears...
In 1917, a pastor named Frederick Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the love of God. He composed two verses that morning, but...
In 1499, a twenty-four-year-old Michelangelo unveiled his *Pietà* in St. Peter's Basilica — a marble sculpture of Mary cradling the body of her Son after...
In 1996, researcher Dr. Diana Bianchi at Tufts University made a remarkable discovery. She found that during pregnancy, cells from the baby cross the placental...
In the 1980s, Dr. Tiffany Field at the University of Miami founded the Touch Research Institute after observing something remarkable in neonatal intensive care units....
In 1978, neonatologist Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. His neonatal unit was overwhelmed — too many premature...
In 1996, scientist Diana Bianchi at Tufts University made a remarkable discovery. During pregnancy, fetal cells cross the placenta and embed themselves in the mother's...
Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a tiny coal mining town where nobody had much of anything. He had a stutter that...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, there is a moment that has stopped readers mid-sentence for over seventy years. Aslan, the...
Dr. James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, conducted a remarkable experiment. He placed married women inside an fMRI machine and told them...
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 Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of prison after nineteen years — hardened, bitter, and convinced no one could ever see him...
Near the end of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, Frodo collapses on the slopes of Mount Doom. He has carried the Ring across...
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 1978, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogota, Colombia. His neonatal ward was overwhelmed — too many...
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...