Book of Psalms
150 chapters, 2,461 verses, in the World English Bible.
Chapters
Reflections on Psalms
The Years Moses Could Already Count
Billions are being spent to make the human boundary negotiable. An ancient prayer treats that same boundary as the one thing worth knowing precisely.
What the Genome Kept
A new paper in Nature names a category of molecules that have been in the human genome the whole time. Most have no known function. The body keeps revealing layers.
The Sleeping Brain Was Listening
Under propofol, the hippocampus kept guessing the next word in a podcast. Something in the patient was reading sentences nobody could report having heard.
The Scroll You Cannot Stop
A new meta-analysis of 98,299 people says the medium is not the problem. The person who cannot put it down is.
The Doll Was Made For You
A Wisconsin seamstress has hand-sewn a thousand custom dolls for children whose bodies the toy aisle has never carried. The reels keep going viral for the same reason.
The Molecules We Cannot Read
NASA found 21 organic molecules on Mars, seven never seen there before. The building blocks of life are present. Whether life was present remains unknown.
The Carousel Remembers What We Forget
The Smithsonian's restored carousel reopened on the National Mall. The first riders were the Black children who desegregated it sixty years ago.
The Law That Ran Out of Time
The UK's assisted dying bill passed the Commons, then died in the Lords without a vote. The question of who owns a life remains unanswered.
The Brain Accepted What We Printed
Engineers printed artificial neurons that living brain cells treat as their own. The detail that made it work was the one they tried to remove.
A Sledgehammer and a Sacred Image
An Israeli soldier photographed smashing a Jesus statue in Lebanon forces a question the evangelical-Israeli alliance has avoided for years.
The Story You Tell About Your Pain
A new study finds that how people explain their depression to themselves predicts how long they stay on medication, regardless of symptom severity.
A Record Kept for 1,200 Years
He spent decades reading 9th-century Japanese to log cherry blossom dates. He died before filling in 2026. Someone he never met is finishing the row.