“This spring, I took my puppy for a short walk. We got about halfway around the block when our mail lady pulled up next to us and turned off her truck. “You got a new puppy?!” I nodded proudly, beaming at my fuzzy new friend. It felt good to walk with a dog again after […]

Cecilia Payne was only twenty-five years old when she discovered what the universe is truly made of. Not guessed. Not assumed. She uncovered the answer. It was 1925. Born in England, Cecilia had just become the first person ever to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College. Her thesis held a revelation that would […]

In the 1920s, a noticeably older and more contemplative Wyatt Earp was captured in a photograph at his desert camp near the Happy Days gold mine, located just across the river from Parker, Arizona. By then, the once fiery lawman and gunfighter had largely distanced himself from the wild reputation he earned during his earlier […]

“For 5 of his 7 years, my son Rylan didn’t have a steady, positive father figure—until Joe came into our lives.”

“This is my youngest daughter, she’s 14. This is her second year working a summer job. She decided where she wanted to work and walked in a resume. They didn’t call. So she called them, twice. Then went in to see if they had looked at the resumes yet. They hadn’t. They asked her if […]

It was the 1940s at UC Berkeley, and graduate student George Dantzig found himself running late for class. As he slipped into the room, two math problems lingered on the blackboard. Thinking they were homework, he scribbled them in his notes and left without asking questions. Those problems, as it turned out, were not routine […]