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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
Long-Form/Podcast:

The Traveler and His Baggage

In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Jun 2021 • Read/Listen →
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Pushing the Envelope

As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies w...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Apr 2021 • Read/Listen →
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The Anticipated Future of the Moon

When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately...
Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Feb 2021 • Read/Listen →
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It Makes One’s Head Swim

On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt--at that time the Prime Minister of Australia--decided to go for a swim. He and his...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Jan 2021 • Read/Listen →
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A Day on Venus

Compared to Earth, our astronomical next-door neighbor Venus is 95 percent as large, 28 percent closer to the sun, an...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Dec 2020 • Read/Listen →
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It Belongs in a Museum

In January 2010, two journalists knocked on the door of 84-year-old Frenchman Jacques Bellanger to ask him about the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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A Wealth of Insight

At the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, social psychologist Paul Piff paired off approximately 200 u...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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The Unknown Father

Alois Schicklgruber was never quite certain who his father was. Born in 1837, Schicklgruber was the child of Maria An...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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The Overlooked Amendment

"Article the Second" was a single-sentence amendment written by James Madison in 1789, intended to be added to the Un...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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One Small Step for a Man

During the development of the Apollo moon missions in the early 1960s, the newfangled government agency called “NASA”...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →
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