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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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The Life and Death and Life of Dark Matter

Judging from the observed movements of distance bodies in outer space, scientists have long speculated that there is...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Sonic Torpedo Defense

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a new ship defense technology that uses massive a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Nature’s Nuclear Reactors

In the early- to mid-1950s, Dr. Paul Kuroda from the University of Arkansas described the possibility of naturally oc...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Oct 2005 • Read/Listen →
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What You Can’t Say

The essay "What You Can't Say" is written by the excessively intelligent and articulate Paul Graham. It discusses co...
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Stem Cells Restore Mobility to Paraplegic Woman

In Korea, medical science may have just taken an impressive stride. A woman named Hwang Mi-Soon, who had been paral...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Oct 2005 • Read →
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It Rains More on Weekends

Fair weather often seems to play hard-to-get on warm season weekends. During the work week, we toil under buzzing flu...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Gator vs. Python

In the Everglades National Park in Florida, the new residents have been trying to find their place in the ecosystem....
Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Help, I’m Trapped in a Universe Factory

This doodle from Randall Munroe's Drawings is a spin-off of the classic "Help I'm Trapped in a Fortune Cookie Factory...
Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Finally, a Remote-Controlled Robot You Can Swallow

Arianna Menciassi and her team of researchers at the Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy have create...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Emotional Bankruptcy of Alexithymia

Few people are familiar with the condition known as alexithymia, yet it is not so rare a thing. Alexithymia is condit...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Oct 2005 • Read →
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