Articles by Dan Lewis

The term “burn after reading” — beyond being a reference to a Coen Brothers movie — [...]

At six o’clock or so every morning — significantly later if you’re lucky — phones [...]

In Judeo-Christian religions, the Ten Commandments are generally regarded to be of elevated importance (or, [...]

In the summer of 1959, a group of fishermen made their way to the Galapagos Islands, specifically the tiny [...]

In June of 2012, a 22-year-old man was arrested in the Washington, D.C. area, for trying to rob a bank. If [...]

In the early 1950s, the predecessor to the California Department of Transportation (colloquially [...]

  Most famous pieces of stolen art are stolen because they’re famous. But the picture above — a [...]

If you’ve ever taken a subway in a major city — or if you’ve been anywhere else that large numbers [...]

In the late 1800s, a man named John Harvey Kellogg invented the cereal now known as Corn Flakes, and a few [...]

The video above is a bit more than 30 seconds long. It features a young woman carrying a gold foil bag of [...]