The icy patch on the sidewalk leered at us. Dark, dangerous, and sinister, it lurked, waiting for unwary pedestrians. Its smooth, thick surface sneered at us, daring us to try…
Connecting your world to His Word
Author: Sean Connolly
In high school, I had a major crush on Michelle. We were in typing class together (You know, where students learned how to use a typewriter correctly, those clackety things…
When his ex-finance finally caught up to him, furious after being abandoned at the altar, Jake realized he was in serious trouble. On his knees in the filth and muck,…
It’s all about the beat. Or rather, it’s all about being in sync with the beat. Researchers at McMaster University found 14-month old infants, after being bounced along in sync…
Tensions were high, and lawsuits were threatened, all because of the noise of an industrial plant impacting a nearby residential neighborhood. My job was to solve the noise problem, which…
“Is this a successful operation?” In his book Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Father Greg Boyle says he gets that question a lot from potential donors…
The destroyer USS Doyle was on a rescue mission. As the ship churned through the Pacific Ocean at top speed in the dark of night, Captain W. Graham Claytor realized…
It seems counterintuitive. More cushioning should make for a softer landing. But as Christopher McDougall writes in his book Born To Run, that’s not always true. In a series of…
Many an adjective has been wasted to try and describe the indescribable Grand Canyon – immense, vast, magnificent, spectacular, enormous, etc. – but the adjectives are too common to explain…
What if we could see how much energy gets sucked up by our electric-powered machines, simply by plugging them in? That was the idea behind the Power-Aware Cord, one of…