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58 illustrations
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean emerges from nineteen years in prison a hardened, bitter man. No inn will shelter him. No family will...
In 1985, three British scientists — Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin — published findings that stunned the world. A hole had opened in...
In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released fourteen gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park. Wolves had been absent for nearly seventy years, and...
In 1995, ecologists released fourteen gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park. The wolves had been absent for seventy years, and without them, the ecosystem had...
Orthopedic surgeons know something that surprises most patients: a healed bone fracture is often the strongest point in the entire bone. When a bone breaks,...
For nearly five centuries, visitors to the Sistine Chapel gazed up at Michelangelo's ceiling and saw muted, somber tones — browns and grays and shadows....
In 2006, marine biologist Dr. David Vaughan was cleaning a tank at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida when he accidentally snapped a piece of elkhorn...
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...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb wanders into a dragon's cave, falls asleep on the treasure...
Sarah had spent three years building her doctoral dissertation — thousands of hours of research, hundreds of pages of careful analysis. Then one Tuesday morning,...