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Every day, without your awareness or consent, somewhere between 50 and 70 billion of your own cells choose to die. Scientists call it *apoptosis* —...
In 1633, Rembrandt van Rijn completed *The Raising of the Cross*, one of a series of Passion paintings commissioned by the Dutch Stadtholder. The canvas...
In 1914, German artist Käthe Kollwitz received the news every parent dreads: her eighteen-year-old son Peter had been killed in the first weeks of World...
On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente lined a double off the wall at Three Rivers Stadium — his three-thousandth career hit. He was thirty-eight years...
In 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved consecration hymns: *Take My Life and...
In 2002, three scientists — Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston — received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for uncovering one of the...
In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, a...
In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but dissolute, he drifts through his...
If you have ever put on a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones, you know the almost eerie moment when the outside world goes quiet. The...
Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "We are made of star stuff" — and he was not being poetic. He was being precise. Every carbon...
In 2002, scientists Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, and H. Robert Horvitz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering something remarkable inside every...
Every atom of calcium in your bones, every molecule of oxygen in your lungs, was forged inside a dying star. This is one of astrophysics'...