Articles by Dan Lewis

June 6, 2018 0

According to official estimates, there are about 77,000 homeless people living in New York City. The vast [...]

June 5, 2018 0

In the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” a tornado strikes a small town in Kansas. The cyclone catches the [...]

June 4, 2018 0

If you were to turn your calendar to January 7th, you’d likely see the words “Christmas (Eastern [...]

June 1, 2018 0

1) “A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses” (New York Times, 18 minutes, May [...]

May 31, 2018 0

In the fall of 1984, NBC debuted a new TV show featuring a pair of police officers who were very [...]

May 30, 2018 0

Vulcan is an M-class planet (or, was, if you think Chris Pine is more Kirk than William Shatner) in the [...]

May 29, 2018 0

When it comes to comfort food, near the top of your list is probably one of your grandmother’s [...]

May 25, 2018 0

1) “An Open Letter to Wikipedia” by Philip Roth (The New Yorker, 11 minutes, September 2012). [...]

May 24, 2018 0

The Black Death — or simply the Plague — was shockingly devastating. It spread throughout Europe, [...]

May 23, 2018 0

Thrissur is a city in India, located in the state of Kerala near the Arabian Sea coast. If you travel about [...]