bipolar

Chile's Atacama desert currently produces the largest market share of the world's lithium carbonate.

"In the first twenty-five years after lithium was introduced to treat manic depression, it saved $150 billion in hospitalization costs."
- Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Superfreakonomics, p.145

Brewski

From Freakonomics:

The more beer scientists drink, the less likely they are to have a paper published or cited, according to a new study by Thomas Grim, an ornithologist at Palacky University, Czech Republic.

Grim surveyed the behavior of Czech scientists and found a correlation between amount of beer consumed and papers published.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics.