"Joe vs. the Volcano": Living in Amazement

"My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are ...

Einstein Found the World Comprehensible

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

—Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate ...

Human Life Is a Statistical Improbability

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson marvels at what makes up human life:

No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types ...

George Washington Carver and the Peanut

"God's little workshop" was the name George Washington Carver gave to his laboratory. According to his own account, it was there the famous ...

Stradivari's Skill Is a Mystery

Perhaps the greatest of all Stradivarius mysteries is why no modern violinmaker has been able to replicate Stradivari's work. The violins of Stradivari's ...

A Scientific Account of Creation

Only God knows precisely what happened at the moment of creation, but physicists are beginning to get a clearer picture, as described by writer Bill Bryson: ...

Scientists Puzzle Over the Wonder of the Cosmos

The more scientists are discovering about the universe, the more perplexed they are in trying to understand exactly how it works. Many are going to extremes, ...

The Real Seven Wonders of the World

A teacher asked her students to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World. The students cast the most votes for:

1. Egypt's ...

"Alive": Hope Amidst Despair

Alive, with Ethan Hawke, is the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team, whose plane crashes in the Andes mountains in 1972. The film portrays the struggle ...

Big Bang: Best Evidence of Creation

The detection in 1963 of cosmic microwave background in the universe was one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century because it is strong evidence ...