The most powerful computer in the world is currently the IBM BlueGene/L, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It can perform 280 trillion calculations a second!

However, that's nothing compared to the computer they're trying to put together at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It's called The Roadrunner Project, after New Mexico's speedy ...

Text: John 15:1–7

Purpose: To visualize the powerlessness of depending on ourselves rather than God.

Objects: An electric power strip with multiple outlets (the kind that computers and appliances are plugged into). One or two appliances and a light.

Experience: Hold up the power strip for everyone to see and say: "You have all seen one of these. We use power strips to plug computers or appliances ...

In 2006, Yoko Ono placed a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for December 8—the anniversary of John Lennon's death—to be made a global day of healing.

"One day we will be able to say that we healed ourselves," Ono promised, "and by healing ourselves, we healed the world."

Set against Chicago's World's Fair in 1893, Erik Larson's bestselling book The Devil in the White City tells the true story of two men, each serving as an extreme example of what human beings are capable of. The first is Daniel Burnham, considered by many to be the greatest architect of his day.

Burnham was the driving force behind Chicago's World's Fair, transforming it into a phenomenon that forever ...

The top single superpower adults would most like to have:

To read minds: 28 percent
To fly: 15 percent
To be invisible: 11 percent
To possess super strength: 9 percent
To walk through walls: 1 percent

Author and pastor Greg Laurie offers the following advice about determining whether or not you are growing old:

• You know you're getting old when you actually look forward to a dull evening at home. • You know you're getting old when your mind makes commitments your body cannot keep. • You know you're getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work. • You ...

At least 12 American multimillionaires are looking forward to their lives beyond death. Confident in the continued progress of modern medicine, they have arranged for their bodies to be frozen after they have died. They have also have set up "personal revival trusts," which are designed to ensure their present wealth will be waiting for them when they have been resuscitated 100 or 200 years in the ...

The Question of God: Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis explores the most basic and meaningful questions about life by contrasting the views of Freud and Lewis.

In this clip, a photograph shows Freud standing between his two adult sons. The narrator says, "But there was another category of human misery not created by people, and against which there was no defense." Freud is shown in another photo with his ...

When Yahaya Wahab's father passed away in January of 2006, Yahaya cancelled his father's phone line and paid the final bill of 84 ringgit (approximately $23). Consequently, he was mildly surprised to receive another letter from Telekom Malaysia in April of 2006. He was completely and utterly shocked, however, after opening that letter. In fact, he said later that he almost fainted.

Inside was a bill ...

Healing is a rather slippery matter to get a hold of, isn't it? You never know whom it may come to or in what way it may come. Consider Scott Adams. You may think you don't know him, but you do. Scott Adams is the creator and writer of the Dilbert cartoons. Americans love to thumb through their newspapers and laugh at his witty insights about the workplace.

What you may not know is that Adams suffers ...