Articles by Dan Lewis

In 1912, a pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville came up with a test to measure the spiciness of peppers.  His [...]

The video below is of lunch — lunch for an American tourist in Hokadate, Hokkaido, Japan. The dish is [...]

Mukesh Ambani has money.  A lot of money.  With an estimated personal wealth of roughly $27 billion (give [...]

Today is November 11, 2011 — or, 11/11/11.  It is a very “eleven” day. But with the number [...]

In a letter dated November 17, 1789, Benjamin Franklin told his friend Jean-Baptiste Leroy that the United [...]

The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect in 1919, and early the next year, [...]

Superman hails from a planet called Krypton, an Earth-like planet of (superpowered) Earth-like people. As the [...]

It is not uncommon for police detectives to, informally at least, employ the assistance of reporters when [...]

  The Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, pictured above, is a thermonuclear bomb weighing a relatively light 7,600 [...]

Before wax became widely available and at a relatively inexpensive price, many candles were made of tallow [...]