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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
Long-Form/Podcast:

The Derelict

A series of accidents and errors amass into disaster at sea. But that's not the end of the story.
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Jan 2015 • Read/Listen →
Site News:

May Have Settled

It was early in the morning on the 1st of May 1832 in New York City. The ordinarily gentle horse-drawn traffic of the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2014 • Read →
Podcast:

The Clockmaker

A patient German inventor in Nazi Germany takes matters into his own hands.
Written by Alan Bellows • 29 May 2014 • Read/Listen →
Long-Form/Podcast:

Absolute Zero is 0K

Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Mar 2014 • Read/Listen →
Site News:

The Dang Interesting Article Accelerator

We here at Dang Interesting don't manage to post new articles quite as often as we'd like. We relish researching and...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Feb 2014 • Read →
Long-Form/Podcast:

Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

An unlikely and unethical psychological experiment is undertaken at Michigan's Ypsilanti State Hospital in 1959.
Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Nov 2013 • Read/Listen →
Podcast:

The City Under Ice

The story of Camp Century: A 1950s-era experimental "nuclear city" under the Greenland ice sheet that was not what it seemed.
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Sep 2013 • Read/Listen →
Curio:

Niagara be Dammed

In 1969 the US Army Corps of Engineers shut down the American section of Niagara Falls for maintenance. Parts of the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Sep 2013 • Read →
Podcast:

The Conductor

The tragic story of the holder of a very unfortunate world record.
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Jul 2013 • Read/Listen →
Long-Form/Podcast:

Andrée and the Aeronauts’ Voyage to the Top of the World

The story of three adventurers who tried to reach the North Pole via hydrogen balloon in 1897.
Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Jun 2013 • Read/Listen →
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