A tongue in cheek comparison between the British fictional sleuth and the American Transcendentalist author, just because.

Fasting was once a religious endeavor. The idea that skipping meals could lead to improved health emerged around the turn of the twentieth century.

Are corals digesting plastic? Are gasoline cars about to disappear from our roads? Does the ecolabel on your frozen salmon mean your dinner is sustainable?

Every year, thousands of American eels make an amazing migration from their freshwater homes into the Atlantic Ocean, where they spawn and die.

Developing rare earth mining in Afghanistan has been a potential objective since the USGS estimated the country had $1 trillion in mineral ore deposits.

Waterless toilets battle the global sanitation crisis.

In the early 19th century, mulberry trees became associated with economic prosperity and morally upright productiveness, leading to a speculative bubble.

Doughnuts became popular during World War I, when Salvation Army volunteers—most of them women—made and served the soldiers million of doughnuts.

The culture industry has long repackaged content from the past for the present. Just look at Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote.

The majority of medication-related hospital admissions were caused by noncompliance—when patients, for one reason or another, don't take their drugs.