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• Article #350: The Mole Rat Prophecies
• Article #349: The Spy Who Loved Nothing
• Article #348: The Isle of Doctor Seaborg
• Article #347: The Arizona Dragonslayer
• Article #346: The Science of Mental Fitness
• Article #345: Nineteen Seventy Three
• Article #344: Pushed to the Limit
• Article #343: Night Takes Rook
• Article #342: The Enlightenment Guide To Winning The Lottery
• Article #341: Better Call Sol
• Article #340: The Tyrant of Clipperton Island
• Article #339: Meddle, Metal, and Mettle
• Article #338: Too Close for Comfort
• Article #337: The Power of Positive Lightning
• Announcement #31: Can I Borrow a Feeling?
• Announcement #30: Apocalypse on the Set
• Article #336: Aches on a Plane
• Article #335: Bound By Tradition
• Article #334: The Ice Worm Cometh
• Announcement #29: Writer on the Storm
• Article #333: Rider on the Storm
• Article #332: Who Wants To Be a Thousandaire?
• Announcement #28: It's About Damn Time
• Article #331: The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana
• Article #330: The Wrath of the Killdozer
• Article #329: Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Mariana
• Announcement #27: Something's Afoot at Damn Interesting
• Announcement #26: A Series of Unfortunate Hacks
• Article #328: In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You
• Article #327: Mediterranean be Dammed
• Article #326: Doctor Watson's Phobia Factory
• Announcement #25: Damn Deadlines
• Article #325: The Pit of Life and Death
• Article #324: The American Gustation Crisis of 1985
• Article #323: The Heroes of SARS
• Article #322: Eugenics and You
• Article #321: A Large-Hearted Gentleman
• Article #320: Operation Pastorius
• Article #319: The Martian Express
• Article #318: The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff
• Announcement #24: Some Damn Interesting News
• Article #317: The Sheep Incident
• Article #316: The Confederacy's Special Agent
• Article #315: The Remarkable Pneumatic People-Mover
• Article #314: Life Without the Moon
• Article #313: The Third Reich's Diabolical Orbiting Superweapon
• Article #312: The Plane That Flew Too Soon
• Article #311: Mutant Killer Seaweed of Doom
• Article #310: The Unburdened Mind
• Article #309: Humoring the Gelotologists
• Article #308: The Origami Resolution
• Article #307: Sergei’s Litter
• Article #306: Transforming the Earth
• Article #305: The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth
• Article #304: Space Radio: More Static, Less Talk
• Article #303: The Sound of the Aurora
• Article #302: The Gimli Glider
• Article #301: Guppy Love
• Article #300: The Remains of Doctor Bass
• Article #299: The Crabs of Christmas
• Article #298: The Apocalypses That Might Have Been
• Article #297: The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
• Article #296: The Vela Incident
• Article #295: The Mechanical Battery
• Article #294: Amoebic Morality
• Article #293: Fortress of the Assassins
• Article #292: The Forgotten Fire
• Article #291: The Revenge of the Fighting Quaker
• Article #290: Building the BAM
• Article #289: Spies on the Roof of the World
• Article #288: One Small Step For Mail
• Announcement #23: Damn Write (Reloaded)
• Article #287: This Looks Like a Job for Vermin!
• Article #286: Raiders of the Lost Lake
• Article #285: The Star Dust Mystery
• Article #284: The Thugs of India
• Article #283: The Intrepid Pigeoneers
• Article #282: Coley’s Cancer-Killing Concoction
• Article #281: Tesla's Tower of Power
• Article #280: On the Origin of Circuits
• Article #279: Reanimated Rodents and The Meaning of Life
• Article #278: Heavy Water and the Norwegians
• Article #277: The Total Perspective Vortex
• Article #276: Beware the Dangers of Oxygen
• Article #275: Living in the Moment
• Article #274: Half Science and Hafnium Bombs
• Article #273: A Walk in the Valley of the Uncanny
• Article #272: The Birth Control of Yesteryear
• Article #271: Terror on Wall Street
• Article #270: Staying Abreast of Human Sexuality
• Article #269: The Windscale Disaster
• Article #268: Bad Blood in Tuskegee
• Article #267: Sympathy for the Devil
• Article #266: Project Alpha and the Spoon Benders
• Announcement #22: Damn Radio Activity
• Article #265: Silent Lucidity
• Article #264: Submersible Aircraft Carriers
• Announcement #21: Spring Break, Damnit
• Article #263: The Fall of the Eastland
• Article #262: The Farewell Dossier
• Article #261: A Fluke of Nature
• Announcement #20: Damn Schedule
• Article #260: The Flying Saucers of North America
• Announcement #19: Damn Distractions
• Article #259: Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations
• Article #258: Misbehaving Pituitaries
• Article #257: The Alcatraz Redemption
• Announcement #18: Damn Downtime
• Article #256: Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier
• Article #255: John Frum and the Cargo Cults
• Article #254: The Wilhelm Scream
• Article #253: The PEPCON Disaster
• Article #252: An Impostor in the Family
• Article #251: Clever Hans the Math Horse
• Article #250: The Terrifying Toothpick Fish
• Announcement #17: Dead Trees and G-Strings
• Article #249: The Association of the Dead
• Article #248: The Lonely Tree of Ténéré
• Article #247: The Woman with a Limp
• Article #246: Remember, Remember the 22nd of November
• Article #245: The Fall of Galloping Gertie
• Article #244: Undark and the Radium Girls
• Article #243: The Other Mystery of Easter Island
• Announcement #16: Damn Write
• Article #242: The Skyhook
• Announcement #15: Damn Additions
• Article #241: The Daedalus Starship
• Announcement #14: Parenthetical Apology
• Article #240: The Norwegian Puffin Dog
• Article #239: The Seizing of the Pueblo
• Article #238: Incident on Niihau Island
• Article #237: Outer Space Exposure
• Announcement #13: Damn Interesting: Back From Holiday
• Article #236: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes
• Announcement #12: Damn Interesting Additions
• Article #235: The Relics of Mu
• Article #234: Hovering in History
• Article #233: Half-Brothers in the Womb
• Article #232: The Timber Terror
• Article #231: High-Rise Syndrome
• Article #230: The Rise and Fall of William J. Sidis
• Announcement #11: Database Problems
• Article #229: The Birth of a Language
• Article #228: The Man Who Started the War
• Article #227: Monster Rogue Waves
• Article #226: The Last Great Steam Car
• Article #225: King Arthur's Grave
• Article #224: The Coherent Light Infantry
• Article #223: The Tragedy of the Love Canal
• Article #222: The Gravity Express
• Announcement #10: Low Frequency
• Article #221: Poland's Biological Defensive
• Article #220: The Battle of Los Angeles
• Article #219: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Spaceship
• Article #218: The Seventh Sense
• Article #217: How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life
• Announcement #9: Happy Damn Birthday
• Article #216: An Island Is Born
• Article #215: The Atomic Automobile
• Article #214: The Bridle on the Neck of the Sea
• Article #213: The Dark Tale of Colliding Superclusters
• Article #212: Operation Acoustic Kitty
• Article #211: Evolving Universes
• Article #210: Barnstorming
• Article #209: The Tragic Birth of FM Radio
• Article #208: Seizure Dogs
• Article #207: The Ruins of Fordlândia
• Article #206: An Astronomical Identity Crisis
• Announcement #8: Recent Downtime
• Article #205: The Sleepy Sickness
• Article #204: The Stinkbird Enigma
• Announcement #7: Damn Interesting: Reminder
• Article #203: Unbalanced Drive Shaft
• Article #202: Tesla
• Announcement #6: Damn Interesting: Join Us
• Article #201: Not Your Average Summer Camp
• Announcement #5: Damn Interesting Problems
• Article #200: Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons
• Article #199: Bad Rye and the Salem Witches
• Article #198: The Confederados
• Article #197: The Winchester Mystery House
• Article #196: The Deepest Hole
• Article #195: Can You Hear the View?
• Article #194: Son of Krakatoa
• Article #193: Number Stations
• Article #192: Two Eggs - Hold the Sperm
• Article #191: Spring Heeled Jack
• Article #190: The Hobo Code
• Article #189: Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall
• Article #188: Does Your Handwriting Express Your Personality?
• Announcement #4: Damn Interesting: A Busy Week Ahead
• Article #187: Flying Rams
• Article #186: Exhuming the Glacier Girl
• Article #185: Another World
• Article #184: This Place is Not a Place of Honor
• Article #183: Feral Children
• Article #182: Hyperbolic Discounting
• Article #181: The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy
• Article #180: In the Heat of the Moment
• Article #179: Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man
• Article #178: Calorie Reduction for Longer Life
• Article #177: Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed
• Article #176: Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Article #175: Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford
• Article #174: Baseball and the Physicists
• Article #173: Before the Big Bang
• Article #172: Ground Effect Vehicles
• Article #171: Pathological Laughing and Weeping
• Article #170: The Call of the Bloop
• Article #169: The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind
• Article #168: The Balance of Risk
• Article #167: Musical Torment
• Article #166: America's Discarded Superconducting Supercollider
• Article #165: The Hutchison Effect
• Article #164: Warm-Blooded Plants
• Article #163: America's Secret Plan to Invade Canada
• Article #162: The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors
• Article #161: A Potentially Disastrous Design Error
• Article #160: Let Slip the Dogs of War
• Article #159: Forget Yourself For Just a Bit
• Announcement #3: DamnInteresting.com Makes Yahoo! Picks
• Article #158: Lucid Decapitation
• Article #157: North Korea's "Secret" Hotel
• Article #156: The Remains of Lady Be Good
• Article #155: You Make Your Own Luck
• Article #154: Cholesterol's Achilles Heel
• Article #153: Can You Hear Me Now?
• Article #152: The Gravity-Powered Aircraft
• Article #151: The Final Total Eclipse
• Article #150: The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia
• Article #149: The Troubled History of Beards
• Article #148: Taking Control of Candy Jones
• Article #147: The Man Who Changed Comic Books Forever
• Article #146: Unskilled and Unaware of It
• Article #145: Rapatronic Nuclear Photographs
• Article #144: England's Armed Iceberg of War
• Article #143: A Life More Colorful
• Article #142: Decisions, Decisions
• Article #141: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
• Article #140: The Six-Stroke Engine
• Article #139: Forty Years of Computer Dating
• Article #138: The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637
• Article #137: China's Sorrow
• Article #136: Volcanic Winter
• Article #135: Shortness of Dark
• Article #134: Do You See What I Hear?
• Article #133: The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder
• Article #132: A Big Footprint on the Steppe
• Article #131: The Only Nazi Aircraft Carrier
• Article #130: Watch the Skies in the Year 52,007 A.D.
• Article #129: A Big, Big Hole in the Ground
• Article #128: The Falkirk Wheel
• Article #127: Social Drinking
• Article #126: The Rosetta Project
• Article #125: Dial-a-Yield Nukes: Regular or Extra-Crispy
• Article #124: Harvesting Toxins
• Article #123: It Came From Above
• Article #122: Sordid History of the Salton Sea
• Article #121: Songs of the Deep
• Article #120: Story of Vaseline
• Article #119: The Doctors' Mob Riot
• Article #118: The Crypt of Civilization
• Article #117: The Not-So-Legendary Chimera
• Article #116: India Panspermia?
• Article #115: It's a Plane! It's a Tank! It's Both!
• Article #114: The Birthday Paradox
• Article #113: Parasites on the Brain
• Article #112: The Hole Story on Trepanation
• Article #111: The World's Tiniest Gold Prospectors, Architects, and Cows
• Article #110: Free-Fall from Near Space
• Article #109: The Halifax Disaster
• Article #108: Great Advances in Smoking Safety
• Article #107: Head of the Class
• Article #106: Cancer Assassins
• Article #105: New Year's Eve 11999
• Article #104: The Green, Green Sheep of Home
• Article #103: Skipping Bombs Like Stones
• Article #102: Liver-Eating Johnson
• Article #101: Urine For a Treat
• Article #100: Unintentional, Unwitting Heroine
• Article #99: Smoke Detectors and a Radioactive Boyscout
• Article #98: The Spanish Flu Epidemic
• Article #97: The Singing Scourge
• Article #96: Phineas Gage's Brain Injury
• Article #95: The Most Powerful Bomb Ever Constructed
• Article #94: The Hazards of Eating Bats
• Article #93: Hole-y Cow
• Article #92: Prepare for Ludicrous Speed
• Article #91: A Coffee For When You Feel Like Crap
• Article #90: Nuclear Landmines
• Article #89: When They Became Him
• Article #88: Amputation Fetishism
• Article #87: More Than Just a Tune
• Article #86: Wearing Your Dead Relatives
• Article #85: The Physics of Quicksand
• Article #84: The "Wow!" Signal
• Article #83: The Hindenburg and Humanity
• Article #82: Technology and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Article #81: The (Almost) Impenetrable Defenses of France
• Article #80: The Truth About Truth Serum
• Article #79: Nothing is Wrong
• Article #78: Why Not a Wind-up Car?
• Article #77: You Can Pick Your Doctor, and You Can Pick Your Nose...
• Article #76: School Violence
• Article #75: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
• Article #74: Miniature Guide Horses for the Blind
• Article #73: Anomalous Pioneers
• Article #72: Random Event Generators Predict the Future
• Article #71: Jockey Tragically Killed Thursday, Wins the Title Friday
• Article #70: The Soldier Who Wouldn't Quit
• Article #69: The Longest-Standing Math Problem
• Article #68: The Christmas Truce of 1914
• Article #67: Happy Birthday Bermuda Triangle
• Article #66: Color Photos From the World War I Era
• Article #65: History's Youngest Mother
• Article #64: Always Watch Out for Number One
• Article #63: The Man Who Was a Dwarf and a Giant
• Article #62: Brain Fingerprinting
• Article #61: And You Thought Houdini Was Good
• Article #60: The Gay-Detecting Fruit Machine
• Article #59: The Boat Designed to Capsize
• Article #58: Lie Detectors
• Article #57: Quantum Mechanics and Immortality
• Article #56: Professional Farters
• Article #55: Atomic Annie and Her Nuclear Projectile
• Article #54: Let's Make a Deal
• Article #53: The Whereabouts of Dr. Einstein's Brain
• Article #52: How to Hypnotize a Chicken
• Article #51: Alien Hand Syndrome
• Article #50: The History of Sealand
• Article #49: Superfluous Brain
• Article #48: Runaway Breakdown
• Article #47: Leonardo The Inventor
• Article #46: Tin Foil Hats Proven Ineffective
• Article #45: The B-25 that Crashed Into the Empire State Building
• Article #44: Chernobyl
• Article #43: NASA's Messages to the Great Unknown
• Article #42: I've Got the Same Combination on My Luggage!
• Article #41: The Phantom Time Hypothesis
• Article #40: The Extraordinary Dymaxion Automobile
• Article #39: The Razzle Dazzle Camo of World War I
• Article #38: Running Out of Oil
• Article #37: Express Elevator to Space, Going Up
• Article #36: The Consequences of Excessive Wakefulness
• Article #35: 1600 Years Before the Steam Engine There Was the Steam Engine
• Article #34: The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961
• Article #33: Rainmakers and Cloudbusters
• Article #32: Do You Want to Live Forever?
• Article #31: WW2: Japan's Secret Biological Weapons Program
• Article #30: The Fiery Balls of Naga
• Article #29: The Price of the Nobel Prize
• Article #28: Bitten by the Nuclear Dragon
• Article #27: Nature's Nuclear Reactors
• Article #26: Alicia Jurman
• Article #25: It Rains More on Weekends
• Article #24: Don't Catch a Fat
• Article #23: The Emotional Bankruptcy of Alexithymia
• Article #22: An Electric Spring in Your Step
• Article #21: It Were Aliens! I Seen 'em!
• Announcement #2: Dreamhost Site of the Month
• Article #20: Meat-o-Matic
• Article #19: A Hairsbreadth From Utter Destruction
• Article #18: Beer Flood Claims Nine Souls
• Article #17: Liquid Telescopes
• Article #16: Body-Snatching Barnacles and Zombie Crabs
• Article #15: The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
• Article #14: Invasion of the Tongue Snatchers!
• Article #13: Operation Stormfury
• Article #12: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
• Article #11: WW2: America Warned Hiroshima and Nagasaki Citizens
• Article #10: The Fax Machines of the 1800s
• Article #9: The Truth About Tourette's
• Article #8: The Many Benefits of the Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow
• Article #7: The Inexplicable Voynich Manuscript
• Article #6: WW2: Britain's Giant Concrete Ears
• Article #5: Starfish Prime
• Article #4: Vesna's Fall
• Article #3: Mind-Controlling Wasps and Zombie Spiders
• Article #2: WW2: Japan's Balloon Bombs
• Article #1: Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
• Announcement #1: Damn Interesting