A 27-meter replica of the Black Pearl, with room for 70 tourists, eight crew, and six bronze cannons was listed for sale online at $2 million but later reduced to $750,000.

At the low end, where we’re talking about beverages drunk from paper bags, chemistry can demonstrate what separates rotgut from decent stuff. Above a certain point, however, we find more useful insight in psychology.

If a brain transplant were possible, would the recipient take on the personality of the donor?

A modern hog-raising operation may house tens of thousands of animals, all producing waste, which flows into a vast holding pond and mainly stays there—when all goes according to plan.

The correlation between childhood lead exposure and adult violent crime is consistent across jurisdictions at all levels, including cities, counties, states, and nations.