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Article:

Does Your Handwriting Express Your Personality?

It is a technique used all over the world, and training in it is widely offered. Many employers, especially in France...
Written by Marisa Brook • 25 May 2006 • Read →
Site News:

Damn Interesting: A Busy Week Ahead

We here at Damn Interesting are preparing to move the site to its new home on a dedicated server, which should help i...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 May 2006 • Read →
Article:

Flying Rams

During World War 2, large bombers and flying fortresses were considered critical for victory by both the Allied and A...
Written by Greg Bjerg • 22 May 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

Exhuming the Glacier Girl

In the early days of the Second World War, Allied forces began Operation Bolero, a daring and risky effort to bring A...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2006 • Read →
Article:

Another World

Try to imagine a world without numbers. No more addition or subtraction, algebra nor calculus. No more high school ge...
Written by Daniel Lew • 19 May 2006 • Read →
Article:

This Place is Not a Place of Honor

If you look at it just right, the universal radiation warning symbol looks a bit like an angel. The circle in the mid...
Written by Alan Bellows • 17 May 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

Feral Children

"Monkey boys," "wolf girls," "gazelle boys," and even an "ostrich boy;" they are all part of the lore of the feral ch...
Written by Greg Bjerg • 15 May 2006 • Read →
Article:

The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy

Summer 1878: With the end of the two-year Russo-Turkish War, the countries of Europe gathered at the Congress of Berl...
Written by Marisa Brook • 12 May 2006 • Read →
Curio:

In the Heat of the Moment

In the U.S., violent crime rates are consistently higher in the South than in any other part of the country. It's jus...
Written by Daniel Lew • 11 May 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man

Early in the morning on the 1st of May 1943, a fisherman on a beach in Spain discovered a waterlogged corpse which ha...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 May 2006 • Read →
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