Articles by Dan Lewis

If you’re a student and you want to get a teacher’s attention, it’s easy: just raise your hand and keep [...]

Hi! Today’s Weekender is about typos, but nothing I wrote about this week prompted me to write this essay. [...]

Pictured above, via the South China Morning Post, is a picture of farmland. But it doesn’t look like most [...]

There are many Dan Lewises in this world. There is, of course, me — the one who wrote the words you are [...]

Walk into most restaurants in the United States, and you’ll find that the tables are set roughly the same [...]

Hi! On Wednesday, I shared a bonus fact about scurvy, a serious medical condition caused by a deficiency of [...]

Pictured above is a TV dinner — a meal you make by opening a box of already-cooked food and microwaving it [...]

If you work or dabble in programming languages, there’s a good chance you know the name Donald Knuth. He [...]

Hi! On Tuesday, I shared a story about the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, which you can read at that link. The [...]

If you look at the top of this email (under the ad, unless you’re a supporter who receives an ad-free [...]