Articles by Dan Lewis

The distance from New York to Chicago is about 700 miles (about 1,125 km). It’s close enough so that two [...]

The HMCS Cayuga was a Canadian naval destroyer active during the Korean War, serving three tours of duty. At [...]

It was the mid-1800s. A Canadian politician named William Hamilton Merritt wanted to increase trade with the [...]

Drew Carey, the comedian, once told the following joke: “Oh, you hate your job?” “Oh my [...]

The Better Business Bureau, better known as the BBB, is a non-profit organization which, per its website, [...]

The Amish are a group of traditional Christians who famously eschew modern technology in favor of what many [...]

1) “The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá” (New York Times, 48 minutes, July 2015). I don’t [...]

The age-old riddle is simple: which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? Your instnict may be [...]