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5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…

On October 21, 2018, celebrated American innovator Earl Bakken passed away. The story of his first invention is legendary. Bakken ran a small medical device repair business in his garage. When he heard about the death of a young patient whose pacemaker failed because of a power outage, his creativity…

I love stories about the simple childlike faith of children. Here is a sampling of third grade children’s praying from their childlike faith. “Dear God, how come you didn’t invent any new animals lately? We still have just all the old ones. Dear God, who draws the lines around the countries? Dear God,…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine quotes Bezos as saying, “The whole point of moving things forward,” says Bezos, “is that you run into problems, into failures, and you have to back up and do things again.…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine quotes Bezos as saying, “If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this: We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented,…

Jerry Merryman was a man who changed the world. When he died in February 2019, friends and family remembered him as brilliant and a kind man with a good sense of humor. Merryman and a team of two other men invented the hand-held calculator while working for Texas Instruments. Their work received a Nobel…

In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “Spencer Silver, the scientist who is partially credited with the creation of the Post-it, was working in his lab at the Minnesota-based company, actually trying to develop a very strong adhesive. Unfortunately, he wasn’t successful. What he accidentally made…

People will do anything to ease loneliness. A Japanese company has invented a machine that produces animated holograms. The Gatebox sells for $1,500 and with its artificial intelligence can talk to its owners. The company has issued 3,700 marriage certificates to men who have fallen in love with their…

Over the last 42 years, Bernie Carroll has earned the title of “Britain’s Angriest Man.” What did he do to earn it? He has been sending opinionated letters to his local newspaper every day. He originally focused his letters on the Liverpool city council. Over the years he expanded his rantings to topics…

John Kellett, who is known as Baltimore’s Mr. Trash, was awarded a world record from Guinness World Record for clearing 63.3 tons of garbage in one month. Kellett designed and built a solar and hydro powered trash interceptor that removes debris from the city’s Jones Falls River. In April 2017, Kellett…

When Tim Cameron lost his wallet he was concerned because there wasn’t much inside in the way of identifying information to help someone find him. Cameron’s wallet was returned, because the person who found it got inventive and used the bank account information in the wallet to return it. The person…

We have all heard the saying, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Well new research reported in the New York Times indicates what makes momma happy. The paper reported that their research shows “the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive…

It might not be good practice to eat your experiments, but astronauts aboard the International Space Station my get to do just that, and have a taste of home at the same time. For over a year, Ian and Jordana Fichenbaum worked to develop a Zero Gravity oven that could revolutionize space food. Their…

David Woodhouse of Truro, Cornwall, told the BBC that he made his initial request to see a dentist in mid-2017 after complaining about tooth pain. After waiting more than 18 months to see a dentist, a 62-year-old British man opted to pull his own tooth. Using his own needle nose pliers he tried to ease…

An optometrist in British Columbia has invented a surgically implantable bionic lens that could give patients perfect vision and make glasses, contact lenses, and laser surgery obsolete. Replacing your eye lens with this lens would take about eight minutes and your eyesight would not only improve at…

When friends from a Michigan high school reunited to uncover a time capsule they buried 30 years earlier, they were disappointed that they couldn’t find it. The seven classmates and two teachers spent two hours digging outside the school looking for the capsule that contained a cassette tape and their…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a device that can detect a person’s feelings by bouncing wireless signals off their body. Researchers claim the technology is nearly 87 percent accurate, using a measure of heartbeats to recognize sadness, anger, pleasure, joy and…

Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager are both a part of the internet news media. They also share their Jewish faith. In addition, they share and communicate a common message. “Traditional values exist for a reason. We cannot invent our own values, and we do so at our own peril.” Their message is identical to…

Los Angeles will be home to the new Museum of Failure. The museum will feature more than 100 failed inventions. The goal is to help us “accept failure, learn from it, and truly achieve progress.” Failure is not the end. The Bible tells of men and women who failed before they succeeded. Peter denied Christ…

A new traveling museum recognizes more than one hundred failed inventions. The builders want to encourage humanity to “accept failure, learn from it, and truly achieve progress.” Some of the failed innovations are the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Harley Davidson Perfume, and the Kodak Digital Camera.—Jim…

Allie Megan Webb runs a body care store in North Carolina. Her husband belongs to a group that hunts for the legendary Bigfoot. She claims to have invented a bottled scent that will attract any Bigfoot within 1.5 miles of the wearer. Her husband was wearing the scent, called “woodsy,” when he claimed…

Jack McConnell recently died at the age of 93. He was a medical researcher who participated in some amazing discoveries including a test for detecting tuberculosis and developing the polio vaccine. He was also instrumental in the invention of the first MRI system. Perhaps his biggest contribution of…

In an article in Relevant magazine, Debra Fileta, a licensed Counselor, lists five ways couples can invest in their marriage. She says, couples need to connect spiritually, and the best way to do that is to pray with each other about the concerns of the day. The second is to communicate meaningfully…