DataTorch – Life-Changing True Stories, Ideas and Teachings

DataTorch shares truthful human stories, inspirational ideas and practical teachings to help readers reflect on life and make positive changes.

St Josephine Bakhita: The Woman Who Found Freedom and Chose Forgiveness		My real Mission will Begin after my Death-Saint Padre Pio
Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Self-Taught Genius Who Saw the Divine in Numbers		Mother Teresa's "Home for the Sick and Dying" in a Hindu Kali Temple
Michael Faraday: From a Bookbinder's Bench to the Power Behind the Modern World		Struggle of Scientists Wife against Chemical Warfare
St. Devasahayam Pillai: The Man Who Lost Everything but Would Not Surrender His Faith		Physiologist is blind to the blood that flows, he sees nothing but his idea- Claude Bernard
Martin Luther King Jr.: When Faith Became Courage in the Face of Hatred		Dostoevsky was classified as "one of the most dangerous convicts"
St. Jude Thaddeus: Stories of Hope When the Way Seemed Impossible		Experiments With Celibacy / Brahmacharya
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid: Turning War into Freedom		Ethical aspects in Organ transplantation- Christiaan Barnard
Harriet Tubman: Guided by Faith on the Road to Freedom		ill-health saved me from the distractions of society and amusement-Charles Darwin
St Thérèse of Lisieux: The Little Way of Trust and Love		Advantages and disadvantages of Marriage - Charles Darwin
Florence Nightingale: The Calls That Led Her to the Lamp		Passages from the Life of a Philosopher Charles Babbage
Saint George: The Dragon, the Widow’s Pillar and the Captive Youth		Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
The Shed Where Radium Was Found: Marie and Pierre Curie’s Years of Hard Work		Casimir Funk's Pigeon Experiments and Vitamine
St Francis of Assisi and the Animals: The Stories Behind His Love for Creation		God created, Linnaeus organized
St Francis of Assisi: The Freedom He Found in Letting Go		Carl Linnaeus- Natural world as a reflection of the logic of God's creation
Joan of Arc: Conscience, Courage and the Cost of Conviction		Carl Friedrich Gauss -Finally I succeeded — not on account of my hard efforts
The Exercise for a Happy Death		Lokasundari the Wife Effect of CV Raman
The Boy Who Helped Begin Don Bosco's Oratory		CV Raman was so confident of winning the Nobel Prize
Dominic Savio: The Young Saint Who Found Holiness in Joy and Daily Duty		Humans bet with their lives - Blaise Pascal's Wager
How St. Augustine found Peace in the middle of his chaos: The Divine Prompt		Blaise Pascal- Sickness is the natural state of Christians
The Architecture of Spirit: Swami Vivekananda's Evolution of Prayer		Vesalius’s Timeless Lesson: Trust Your Own Eyes
Hezekiah: The King Who Leaned on Heaven		Cicero -Do try to kill me properly
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Jesus Christ		Archimedes faced death with courage
An addled child (-Thomas Alva Edison) became genius of the century, by a hero Mother		Albert Einstein and Zionism
Alfred Nobel- From 'merchant of death' to great Peace maker!		Mother Teresa's Call within Call
Saint Joseph - Man of Dreams; Man of Action.		Nikolle Bojaxhiu, the Father of Mother Teresa
Holy Mary- Mother of Jesus		Rudyard Kipling's famous poem 'If'
Curious prediction of Bhaskaracharya about daughter		19 year old Boy ignited World War 1 ?
In search of Philosophers Stone - Hennig Brand		Steve Irwin- Life is like an Egg, handle it carefully
The Enlightenment or Liberation of Human - Moksha		Last words are for fools who haven't said enough- Karl Marx
What must I do to inherit Eternal Life? - Jesus		Peace begins with a Smile - Mother Teresa
The Parable of the Prodigal Son and His Brother		"If they have no bread, let them eat cake"
The death of Socrates		The Diamond Necklace Affair-The Scandal That Sparked a Revolution
Saint Paul - Suffering comes equipped with God’s purpose		Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists- Execution of Lavoisier
Paul the Apostle - Now get up and go and you will be told what you must do		Uncertainty is the greatest torture that a man suffers on earth - Ampère
Transformation of Ashoka the Great		Alhazen pretended madness to escape from Egypt Ruler
Helen Keller- The Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence		Alfred Nobel -The merchant of death
Helen Keller - at sea in a dense fog		Electricity and life - Galvani experiment with frog legs
Saint Mary- The strong and courageous woman		If a person is homosexual and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?
The difficult journey of Joseph and Mary		Alexander Graham Bell - dedicated his life to the penetration of "inhuman silence"
St. Mary--The power of the Most High will overshadow you		Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of world's first antibiotic
Spiritual awakening of Leo Tolstoy		Albert Einstein’s Love affair and his Marriage
The mother of Napoleon Bonaparte		I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly - Albert Einstein
Do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh -Saint Augustine		End of World in 2060 ? - Newton's prediction
Human person is naturally inclined to sin - Saint Augustine		Why Isaac Newton never married?
The Last Station -Tolstoy Preaching in the Final Hours		I know that I know nothing - Socrates
Tolstoy chose poverty and denial of the will		St. Paul - The Man who carried Christ's mission to alien lands and peoples
A Letter to a Hindu: Tolstoy and Indian independence movement		Ashoka the Great - Wheel of Time - Rise and fall
Leo Tolstoy- A conspiracy designed to exploit and to corrupt