Damn Interesting

Author: Alan Bellows • Page 32/34

Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
Curio:

Body-Snatching Barnacles and Zombie Crabs

There is no small number of unsettling parasites crawling, flying, and swimming about the Earth, the lucky ones hitch...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Sep 2005 • Read →
Retired:

The Little Crowbar That Could

In the late 1950s, a group of ingenious but misguided Americans began development of a nightmarish missile system: Th...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Sep 2005 • Read →
Article:

The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles

In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O'Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in loca...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Sep 2005 • Read →
Curio/Podcast:

Invasion of the Tongue Snatchers!

The Spotted Rose Snapper, which lives off the coast of California, is one of a handful of species of fish that are pl...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
Article:

The Monumental Molasses Morass of 1919

How a massive, poorly built molasses storage tank in Boston caused damage and death.
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Sep 2005 • Read →
Retired:

US Deploys Anti-Satellite Satellite

According to General Lance Lord of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, the weaponizing of space is afoot. The Air Forc...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Sep 2005 • Read →
Retired:

America Warned Hiroshima and Nagasaki Citizens

Editor's Note: Evidently in recent years historians have discredited the "old" official story about these leaflets (w...
Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Sep 2005 • Read →
Retired:

A New Face

The world's first human face transplant will likely occur in the next few months at the Cleveland Clinic, and plastic...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Sep 2005 • Read →
Retired:

Fossil-Fuel Stopgap May Virtually Eliminate Auto Emissions

It's old news that adding hydrogen to a combustion engine's ignition phase causes a much cleaner, more efficient burn...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Sep 2005 • Read →
Curio/Podcast:

The Fax Machines of the 1800s

Although the fax machine did not begin to see wide acceptance until the late 1970s, the device's invention predated i...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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