Damn Interesting

Category: Greatest Hits • Page 5/10
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The Remains of Doctor Bass

Under normal circumstances, one would expect a wandering throng of students to demonstrate animated displeasure upon...
Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Oct 2007 • Read →
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The Vela Incident

On 22 September 1979, sometime around 3:00am local time, a US Atomic Energy Detection System satellite recorded a pat...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Oct 2007 • Read →
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The Revenge of the Fighting Quaker

In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Sep 2007 • Read →
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Spies on the Roof of the World

In the closing weeks of 1964, the US Central Intelligence Agency was gripped by anxiety in the wake of troubling news...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Aug 2007 • Read →
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Raiders of the Lost Lake

In the early 1990s, a Russian drilling rig encountered something peculiar two miles beneath the coldest and most deso...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Aug 2007 • Read →
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The Star Dust Mystery

The passenger manifest for British South American Airlines (BSAA) flight CS-59 might have made a perfect character li...
Written by Matt Castle • 30 Jul 2007 • Read →
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Coley’s Cancer-Killing Concoction

On October 1st 1890, William B. Coley, a young bone surgeon barely two years out of medical school, saw one of his fi...
Written by Matt Castle • 13 Jul 2007 • Read →
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Tesla’s Tower of Power

In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordi...
Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Jul 2007 • Read →
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On the Origin of Circuits

In a unique laboratory in Sussex, England, a computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Heavy Water and the Norwegians

On 19 November 1942, a pair of Royal Air Force Halifax bombers shouldered their way through thick winter clouds over...
Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Jun 2007 • Read →
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