In the early 1960s, the Lincoln Futura concept car created for a 1955 auto show was not worth much. It was used a 1959 movie and then sold to automobile designer George Barris for one dollar. Since it was untitled and could not be insured, the car was had little value and was relegated to a back parking…

Passion In his 84 years, Thomas Edison patented over a thousand inventions. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb, but made more money off the alkaline battery. Edison was a bulldog, unwilling to accept failure as a final outcome to his efforts. Before he successfully invented the alkaline battery,…

A new app for the iPhone is now available to help Bible readers pronounce some the most difficult names, places and terms found in the pages of scripture. The Bible Audio Pronunciations app offer assistance on over 1,000 of the Bible’s toughest words. It allows users to search or browse through a database…

Don't allow the fire of adversity to make you a skeptic. Allow it to purify you. The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make. A potential leader is the one who would be able to mentally sustain your organization's vision if you quit thinking for the next month. I like to…

Jesus told His disciples to take the Gospel to the entire world. Two thousand years later, the world is connected like never before, but hundreds of millions of people still do not have access to the Gospel in their heart language. Louann Hunt, who works with a ministry called Faith Comes By Hearing…

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…

A Belgian woman only wanted to travel 90 miles to pick up a friend from the train station in Brussels. Instead, following the directions on her GPS device, she went 900 miles in the wrong direction. She ended up in Croatia. The woman said she didn’t realize there was a problem until the second day of…

VALUE A woman recently proved she is a real lover of art when she paid $10,000 for a piece of invisible art. Aimee Davison purchased the art as part of a fundraiser for the Museum of Non-Visible Art or MONA. The work, titled “Fresh Air”, was described this way, ”This is a unique piece, only this one…

The man who made a huge contribution to the modern world recently passed away, but very few people are aware of what he did. Eugene Polley went to work for the Zenith Corporation in 1935. During his 47 year career with the company’s engineering department, Polley worked on several projects. Most never…

REGRET In his book, Go the Distance, Ed Rowell says, "There are two types of pain in life - the pain of self-discipline, which is always eased by accomplishment, and the pain of regret, which aches within us until we die." —Go the Distance, p 74 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson For more information on Go…

Sharon Standifird served her country in the Gulf War, climbed mountains, and took care of her family, yet she found she didn’t get the respect she deserved from her children. When she would try to call them on their cell phones, her children choose to “Ignore” her calls. Rather than getting mad, Standifird…

INFORMATION AGE Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which has sold more than 15 million copies just released another book entitled "The Eighth Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness." The reason for the sequel to the original book is the onset of the information age."We…

2045, The Year Man Becomes Immortal shouts the cover of Time magazine! Of course that is a couple thousand years late. Jesus already promised that those who believe in Him will never die. The Time article is about the Singularity movement. The Singularity moment is when computer intelligence passes human…

A typical smartphone can make calls, send texts, and surf the Internet. Now, thanks to a Danish research team, phones can conduct brain scans. The team has developed an app that can monitor brain activity when coupled with a special headset. Presently the app only works with one smartphone model, using…

There are numerous warnings in the Bible about false prophets who make bold proclamations that later prove not to be true. Over the years, many people have made predictions about the Internet which plays such a big role in modern life. Not all of these predictions were correct; in fact, some of them…

African villagers were alarmed to see something strange flying through the air, but their fears were relieved that what they had seen was a test of an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone that could one day make their lives better. As drones are growing in popularity, United Nations officials hope the devices…

SMALL THINGS Did you know that ordinary Scotch tape can emit X-rays? According to a report published in the journal, Nature, scientists discovered that when you peel off the adhesive tape from its roll in a vacuum, you produce X-rays. The action produces so much X-ray radiation that researchers were…

In a popular Christmas story, the Grinch tries to stop people from celebrating Christmas by stealing the holiday because he didn’t understand what the season was really all about. The Christmas season can be expensive and stressful, but that does not explain why the first edition of the People app in…

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

Art historians working to restore artwork in the Basilica dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi have discovered a previously unknown component in one of series of famous frescos painted by Giotto during the 13th century. As they worked to restore the clouds in the top of fresco number 20 in the cycle depicting…

Wise people find a way or make a way when faced with obstacles. When too much rain threatened to ruin the cherry crop in New Zealand, orchard owners used helicopters to dry the crop so they could meet the demand created by the Chinese New Year celebration. Over the past seven years, China has become…

Most people look for a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi and get annoyed if that service isn’t provided. A Canadian coffee shop tried the opposite approach. The Faraday Café was built to repel and jam cell phone signals and was the first such shop in the world to try and deliberately create a wireless “black…

Published September 19, 2013 FoxNews.com Someone just paid David Rees, of Beacon, N.Y., $35 to sharpen a pencil. "I think people think: 'Wow, I can't believe he actually did it,'" Rees said. "I wasn't sure what would happen when I sent this guy my money." Now before you write him off as some con-artist…

When the scientist Stephen Hawking was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 21, he was told by the doctors that he would survive only a few years. But he could celebrate his 70th birthday on 8 January, 2012. Doctors remarked that Hawking is living today by the life sustaining power unknown…