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The Consequences of Excessive Wakefulness

Every day, humans experience the irresistible compulsion to pass out, and then remain unconscious for hours upon hour...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Oct 2005 • Read →
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1600 Years Before the Steam Engine There Was the Steam Engine

Mankind doesn't really evolve. Not as a people. We copy, mimic, and integrate, all standing on the shoulders of the g...
Written by Jason Bellows • 27 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961

The Rose Bowl is arguably the most famous annual college football game there is, often referred to as "The Granddaddy...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Rainmakers and Cloudbusters

In the first few days of 1916, Charles Hatfield and his brother Joel finished construction of a twenty-eight foot tow...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Hunter and the Hunted

Something is lurking in the dark, waiting. A tremor is felt...something approaching. The dark thing waits patiently...
Written by Josh Harding • 25 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Japan’s Secret Biological Weapons Program

In 1945, just after Japan surrendered to the United States to end the second world war, a Japanese I-400 class submar...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Fiery Balls of Naga

Supernatural phenomena always seem to be met by photographers who possess a supernatural ability to botch a simple ph...
Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Ancient Greek Computer Technology

In 1900, Elias Stadiatos was diving near the Greek island of Antikythera searching for sea sponges when he encountere...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Price of the Nobel Prize

Sometimes the requirement of giving out a prize annually causes the prize committee to deal the accolades out on some...
Written by Jason Bellows • 18 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Bitten by the Nuclear Dragon

After the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the US Army Air Force was prep...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Oct 2005 • Read →
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