Damn Interesting

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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Cold Power

John Piña Craven is a highly intelligent man of about 80 years who seems to think that cold water can make many peopl...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Nov 2005 • Read →
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Running Out of Oil

For years, many expert geologists have been warning us that we're rapidly approaching a point where we can no longer...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Nov 2005 • Read →
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Try Not to Think of it as YOUR Car

If you drive a car that was built in the last couple of years, there's a very good chance that it's got a little blac...
Written by Alan Bellows • 31 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Express Elevator to Space, Going Up

Only a handful of decades ago, a group of very smart scientists figured that if they crammed a giant metal barrel ful...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Consequences of Excessive Wakefulness

Every day, humans experience the irresistible compulsion to pass out, and then remain unconscious for hours upon hour...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961

The Rose Bowl is arguably the most famous annual college football game there is, often referred to as "The Granddaddy...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Rainmakers and Cloudbusters

In the first few days of 1916, Charles Hatfield and his brother Joel finished construction of a twenty-eight foot tow...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Do You Want to Live Forever?

"One hundred and fifty thousand people die every day, and two-thirds of those die of aging in one way or the other,"...
Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Steve, Don’t Eat It!

Throughout history, there have been men of science who put their own well-being on the line in the pursuit of truth,...
Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Japan’s Secret Biological Weapons Program

In 1945, just after Japan surrendered to the United States to end the second world war, a Japanese I-400 class submar...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Oct 2005 • Read →
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