Articles by Dan Lewis

Potatoes, as a foodstuff, are pretty amazing.  They can be cultivated in most ecosystems, even in arid [...]

  David Johnson, pictured, is an allegedly homeless man living in San Francisco.  He is also a street [...]

The American Civil War was the nation’s bloodiest and deadliest in its history.  In total, there were [...]

Racetrack Playa (Google Maps view here) is a 2.8 mile long, 1.5 mile wide dry lake in California’s [...]

  The Internet. The automobile. Toilet paper. All of these things have been heralded to be the greatest [...]

With rare exception, American involvement in World War II was focused in Europe and the Pacific. Few acts of [...]

Moises Alou was born to be a baseball player. His father, Felipe Alou, played Major League Baseball from 1958 [...]

In 1979, Ashrita Furman, then age 24, decided to make an attempt at a life-long dream: break a world record. [...]

In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer by the name of Leonard George Casley owned a farm with nearly 10,000 [...]