We recently sold a lovely 17th century coffer with beautiful carving for $3,500. What else can you buy from that period for that price?

It's sold more businesses than it has managed to buy.

I recently sold a house in Laguna for $3.5 million. It was on about 2,000 square feet of land, maybe a twentieth of an acre, and the house might cost about $500,000 if you wanted to replace it. So the land sold for something like $60 million an acre.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

It's only relatively recently, since the 18th century, that people expected religion to make them happy. In a way, it's a perverse affirmation of the Enlightenment.

Every sea salt has a different culinary use, some are good for cooking, some are good for rubs, some are good at the table.