Book of Psalms
150 chapters, 2,461 verses, in the World English Bible.
Chapters
Reflections on Psalms
Three years of 12-hour days, and a psalm about sleep
Vinod Khosla wants someone to keep up with his 80-hour weeks. Jacob's seven years for love felt like days. A builder's psalm asks what the nights are for.
Which daughter do you hold first when the plane falls?
As Flydubai 1073 dropped, Lital Hirschl-Shahar had four girls, two hands, and a face gone grey. What she told them, still afraid, was where her trust was.
Everything was legal when they carried her out on a stretcher
An 87-year-old was evicted from her home of seventy years, and every step of it was legal. A whole country recoiled anyway, as if it had watched a theft.
The unraveling no one in the stadium sees
At least one in four dead NFL players had the brain disease CTE. Its worst comes years later, long after the crowd has gone home.
When the Gut Runs Low on Fiber, Its Guests Eat the House
Trillions of microbes live in the gut. Take away their fiber and some turn to the mucus wall that seals the body. We hold together by keeping our guests fed.
A Wedding So Joyful It Mimicked a Heart Attack
A 65-year-old's heart mimicked cardiac arrest from pure joy at her daughter's wedding, proof a body was never built to hold delight without cost.
We Did Not Invent The Light
Before humans could strike a spark, they carried borrowed fire thirty meters into the dark. They could not make it. The light was simply given, a fragile glimpse of grace in an unearned world.
The Surgeon Believed in Heaven and Was Still Afraid to Die
A missionary surgeon caught Ebola and found that his faith in heaven did not keep him from being terrified to die. Scripture never promised it would.
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.