Articles by Dan Lewis

For much of England’s, Scotland’s, and, after unification, the United Kingdom’s history, [...]

The system is pretty simple. For some reason — a customer spills a drink, a jar of tomato sauce falls [...]

    The medical world is full of acronyms. A patient who is “DNR” has a directive [...]

There are more than 20,000 Starbucks around the world, and almost all of them have a familiar menu — [...]

    Ever since the September 11th attacks, much of the United States has taken a proactive approach [...]

  The rules of the United States Senate allow for unlimited debate — a senator can speak literally [...]

The Japanese term chikan means “street groping,” and the fact that there’s a specific [...]

In 1976, a book titled “Lichen as Pollution Monitors” came out. In 1979, “How to Know the [...]

Every Christmas Eve, children around the world wait for a visitor to arrive through the chimney via [...]

On August 23, 2013, a giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub at the National Zoo in Washington, [...]