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On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's garden at Embley Park in Hampshire, England, and heard something she could not explain....
In the winter of 1632, an eighteen-year-old French soldier named Nicholas Herman stood staring at a leafless tree in the frozen countryside of Lorraine. The...
Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother...
Maria Chen spent her first morning at Cornell's Sapsucker Woods completely overwhelmed. The May forest was alive with sound — trills, warbles, sharp chips —...
At 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, David Marsh's phone buzzed on the nightstand in his apartment in Columbus, Ohio. Half-asleep, he silenced it — probably...
In 2019, Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Maria Reyes was three weeks into her first posting at Station Cape Disappointment in Washington State when...
In the autumn of 1953, Frederick Buechner was a twenty-seven-year-old novelist living in Manhattan. He had published two well-received books, moved in literary circles, and...
In 1995, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton traveled to Olympic National Park in Washington State to document something increasingly rare: one square inch of pure silence....
In her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Anand pressed her stethoscope to an elderly patient's chest and heard something...
In 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from the aging John Newton in a London parlor, convinced he needed to leave Parliament and enter the clergy....
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old, already famous for his...
When twelve-year-old Maya Chen first noticed it during a Tuesday afternoon lesson in her teacher's studio on West 72nd Street, she stopped mid-bow. A faint...
Marcus Thompson was a sophomore at the University of Georgia when he started waking at three in the morning, three nights running. Each time, the...
In 2019, a first-year medical student named Priya Chandrasekaran sat in a cardiology lab at Johns Hopkins, stethoscope pressed to a patient's chest, hearing nothing...
During her third year at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Desai pressed a stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual. Just the steady...
In 1521, a Basque soldier named Ignatius of Loyola lay in a castle in northern Spain, his right leg shattered by a French cannonball at...
In May 1942, a frightened woman knocked on the door of a small watchmaker's shop at 19 Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. She was Jewish, desperate,...
During her first clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anya Krishnan pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, recorded four words in her diary...
During her third-year clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anita Patel pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
In late March, along County Road 12 outside Ithaca, New York, ten-year-old Maya Chen pressed her face against the car window and frowned. Her father...
In 2010, Dr. Evan Atar Adaha stood in a makeshift surgical tent in Kurmuk, a dusty border town in Sudan's Blue Nile region. Ethiopian militias...
In 1936, a young apprentice named William Braid White sat in a concert hall in Chicago, convinced the Steinway on stage was perfectly tuned. His...
In May 2013, intern forecaster Kendra Williams sat at her workstation in the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma. Three times that afternoon, she...