Damn Interesting

Author: Alan Bellows • Page 16/34

Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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The Most Boring Story Ever Told

In the 1960s, researchers in the Soviet Union began an ambitious drilling project whose goal was to penetrate the Ear...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Jun 2006 • Read →
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No More Cavities?

The typical human mouth contains a writhing orgy of bacteria. Most of these microscopic organisms are benign, and som...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Jun 2006 • Read →
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Dang Interesting: A Busy Week Ahead

We here at Dang 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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Hyperbolic Discounting

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die." It's an appealing philosophy to some, but for an average person i...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 May 2006 • Read →
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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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Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 August 1945, a number of eyes in the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned skyward at the drone of a US B-29 bomber...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 May 2006 • Read →
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The Call of the Bloop

During the Cold War, the United States Navy erected a vast array of underwater listening devices in order to detect a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Musical Torment

When the human ear encounters music, a number of brain systems are engaged by the incoming sound. The music signal is...
Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Apr 2006 • Read →
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