Damn Interesting

Author: Alan Bellows • Page 22/34

Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Inventing the Tweel

Much of the technology that is used on modern cars, though it has been incrementally improved over the decades, is st...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Personal Air and Land Vehicle

Despite many technological innovations, the twenty-first century has so far completely failed us in two key departmen...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Why Not a Wind-up Car?

Many hybrid cars use an interesting system called "regenerative braking" to recapture some of the energy which is was...
Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Dec 2005 • Read →
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You Can Pick Your Doctor, and You Can Pick Your Nose…

In the scientific and medical communities, the technical name for using one's finger to extract boogers is rhinotille...
Written by Alan Bellows • 17 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

On September 2, 1944, as the Second World War was in progress in Europe and the Pacific, some strange happenings were...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Lie Detectors Alongside Metal Detectors?

Someday in the future, when you're moving through airport security, you may be required to speak to the GK-1 machine...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Miniature Guide Horses for the Blind

By using selective breeding programs over many generations, horse breeds have been produced which are little more tha...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Dec 2005 • Read/Listen →
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Nazi Propaganda Swing

Despite the fact that swing and big band music were forbidden as "degenerate" in 1930s Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels,...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The SMART Car

In lots of places other than the United States, there is a plucky little automobile for sale called the Swatch Merced...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Jockey Tragically Killed Thursday, Wins the Title Friday

On May 8th, 1936, a horse jockey named Ralph Neves was riding in the third race of the day at Bay Meadows Racecourse...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Dec 2005 • Read →
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