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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Dreamhost Site of the Month

We here at DangInteresting.com are collectively vibrating with titillation at winning the Dreamhost Site of the Month...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Mobile Phone as Computer

In the nearish future, your may find you desktop computer supplanted by your mobile phone. But it won't be as nasty...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Chess-Playing Clockwork Cabinet of 1770

In 1770, a nimble-minded inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled an extraordinary machine he had built. It was...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Project Facade

Project Facade is a website devoted to exploring the origins of facial reconstructive surgery, which began in earnest...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Meat-o-Matic

A few years ago, researchers at NASA fried up several chunks of vat-grown fish meat in a little olive oil, garlic, le...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Mechanically Separated Chicken and Other Horrors

The foods that lurk on grocery shelves have ingredient lists that often defy pronunciation. Those few words that can...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Can We Trust the Red Cross?

The three million unpaid volunteers for the Red Cross are an able, well-intentioned bunch... and they certainly do a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Beer Flood Claims Eight Souls

In the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution brought about considerable advances in agriculture, manufacturing, and t...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Sep 2005 • Read →
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 →
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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 →
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