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Outer Space Exposure

In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of spa...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Nov 2006 • Read →

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Damn Interesting: Back From Holiday

We took a few days off for the US Thanksgiving holiday, but now we're back. We'll be splitting the lickety to get a...

Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Nov 2006 • Read →

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Damn Interesting Additions

I just wanted to pop in and mention that we've made a few subtle additions to the site over the past few days. We cr...

Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Nov 2006 • Read →

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Hovering in History

During the 1950s and 1960s the United States Army spent considerable energy developing one- and two-man flying machin...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 15 Nov 2006 • Read →

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Half-Brothers in the Womb

In 1993, Wilma Stuart gave birth to two baby boys. They were fraternal twins, so some dissimilarity was to be expecte...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 13 Nov 2006 • Read →

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The Timber Terror

In the late 1930s, the dark cloud of war was lurking on the horizon in Europe. Even as the United Kingdom and France...

Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Nov 2006 • Read →

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High-Rise Syndrome

As most people know, when a cat is able to see, it will usually land on its feet. It's a neat knack they've had to ev...

Written by Jason Bellows • 08 Nov 2006 • Read →

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The Rise and Fall of William J. Sidis

In the waning years of the nineteenth century, boatloads of Russian Jewish immigrants were arriving in New York harbo...

Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Nov 2006 • Read →

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Database Problems

Sorry for the delay everybody, but our database server has been experiencing problems due to a Distributed Denial of...

Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Nov 2006 • Read →

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The Birth of a Language

Languages are thoroughly organic entities. Each one is complex and versatile, constantly shifting according to the ne...

Written by Marisa Brook • 03 Nov 2006 • Read →

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