Articles by Dan Lewis

In 1812, Spain instituted something called the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, or the Spanish Christmas [...]

If you’re looking to save a few bucks and don’t really care too much about your [...]

What do Steve Jobs, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, the Eiffel Tower, Pluto, and the entire [...]

There’s something inherently fun about trying to set a new world record, especially if doing so as a [...]

Get a traffic or parking ticket and it will probably bother you for the rest of the day. Anecdotally, these [...]

Bomb threats as hoaxes are, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. In recent weeks, for example, a man called [...]

A gigaflop is a billion — one thousand millions — flops. A flop is a “floating point [...]

Every year, countless numbers of people pass away alone, without family or friends to give them [...]

Worst. Thing. Ever. You’ve probably seen or heard someone say that, usually in a [...]

From 1968 through 1978, and again from 1989 until 2003, actor Peter Falk graced television screens as [...]