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At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, American gymnast Kerri Strug sprinted down the vault runway with everything on the line. On her first attempt, she had...
Every year, the average person manages over 100 passwords. We forget them constantly. We lock ourselves out of bank accounts, email, even our own phones....
Every year, millions of patients lie down on an operating table and do something remarkable — they surrender. General anesthesia asks more of us than...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, young Lucy Pevensie steps through a wardrobe into a world she has never seen. She...
In George MacDonald's novel *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene discovers a mysterious thread given to her by her great-great-grandmother. The thread is...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor's failed treatment left her permanently blind. It was a loss that could have defined her...
In orchestral music, one of the hardest things for a musician to learn is the rest — those measures of silence where your instrument sits...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor's mistake destroyed her eyesight forever. She never saw a sunrise, never read a page of...
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. women's gymnastics team stood on the edge of history. After a stumbling first vault, Kerri Strug limped back...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a man posing as a doctor placed a hot poultice on her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her...
In 1882, Louisa Stead stood on the shore with her young daughter Lily and watched her husband rush into the waters of Long Island Sound...
Every time you buy something online, your browser performs a small miracle of trust. Before your credit card number travels across the internet, your computer...
Every day in hospitals around the world, patients do something remarkably brave. They lie down on a narrow table under fluorescent lights, and an anesthesiologist...
In 1669, Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam made a discovery that stunned the scientific world. He carefully opened a caterpillar's chrysalis midway through metamorphosis and found...
In 1999, biologist Bernd Heinrich documented something remarkable in his study of caterpillar metamorphosis. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar doesn't simply grow wings. It dissolves....
In C.S. Lewis's *Prince Caspian*, there is a moment that has stayed with me for years. The children are lost in the woods of Narnia,...
When you step inside the Cathedral of Chartres, the first thing that overwhelms you is the light. Enormous stained glass windows flood the sanctuary with...
When scientists first opened a chrysalis mid-transformation, they expected to find a half-formed butterfly — perhaps a caterpillar with small wings budding from its back....
Every day, in hospitals around the world, patients do something remarkable. They lie down on an operating table, allow an anesthesiologist to render them completely...