Your Brain Is Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Your brain is about the size of a head of cauliflower. It looks and feels like a three and a half pound lump of firm tofu. It comprises about two percent ...

Biblical Wisdom on the Neurons Lining Our Gut

In the dynamic relationship between love and knowledge, head and heart, the Scriptures paint a holistic picture of the human person. It's not only our ...

Leonardo da Vinci—How to Be Insatiably Curious

The human brain weighs three pounds. It is the size of a softball, and yet with it we have the capacity to learn something new every second of every minute ...

MD Describes Importance of Blood

Physician Horace Smith describes the importance of human blood:

Each drop of human blood contains over 5 million red cells … In an average lifetime, ...

Actress Laments Our 'Fixation on Youth'

In a recent (October 2014) New York Times article, actress Frances McDormand spoke out against what she called Hollywood's and America's "perverse fixation ...

Media Images Propel Women into Body Hatred

The average woman in America sees about 3,000 ads each day—many of which send messages about what the "ideal" female body should look like. But ...

Actress Says, "You Can't Eat Beauty"

The Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong'o, who received the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years as a Slave, offered this ...

Pre-Oscar ‘Vampire Facelifts’ Highlight Our Culture's Skewed Understanding of Beauty

Before this year's Academy Awards event in Los Angeles, a remarkable uptick in cosmetic surgeries highlighted the radical lengths some are willing ...

Your Brain Has 500 Trillion Connections

Your body, including your brain, is fearfully and wonderfully made. In the book Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? science writer Joshua Foer explains ...

Famous Actress on the Pain of Aging

Kristin Scott Thomas, the British-born actress who was nominated for an Oscar (The English Patient), talked about the pressure of growing older in a culture ...