Articles by Dan Lewis

On September the 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked four American commercial jets with the intention of crashing [...]

Somewhere, out in the sky above, are stars.  But due to light pollution, even at night, many of us cannot [...]

Murder cases, prime time television has trained us to believe, are investigated by multiple, highly [...]

At 8:15 PM local time on February 19, 1994, paramedics brought 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez to the emergency [...]

Ben Matlock, the Atlanta-based fictional attorney portrayed by Andy Griffith in the eponymous television [...]

The second half of the 20th century was marked by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States (and its [...]

In recent months, “planking,” an Internet-fueled fad, has travelled the globe. Planking is the [...]

Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in Oceana.  It has a population of [...]

Aspirin is a bit of a miracle drug. It can be used to treat fever, pain, arthritis, and headaches. It can [...]

The Nares Strait is the channel of water that separates Greenland from the northernmost Canadian island, [...]