Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.
No other president in the last 50 years has attempted to shrink the national monuments designated by his predecessors.
How the world has—and hasn't—changed since Pacific Standard's first Issue.
The Pentagon has paid more than $42 billion to clean up contaminated sites—mostly to private contractors—with little evidence of improvements, a ProPublica investigation found.
"Community policing" initiatives can encourage officers to develop ties to the neighborhoods they patrol and fight discrimination on the road.
Awareness that a brand is widely counterfeited can make shoppers more willing to pay for the real thing, a 2012 study found.
With the very humanness of its sound, vinyl offers a sense of sentimentality—of mortality, even—that only imperfection allows.
There's a reason concrete is the world's most widely used synthetic material, and it's not because concrete is great to look at.