Damn Interesting

Author: Alan Bellows • Page 14/34

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

Damn Interesting: Back From Holiday

We took a few days off for the US Thanksgiving holiday, but now we're back. We'll be splitting the lickety to get a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Nov 2006 • Read →
Curio:

Giant Carnivorous Centipedes

The world has many moist, warm, and dark cavities where phobia-inspiring organisms quietly lurk. The tropical climat...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Nov 2006 • Read →
Site News:

Damn Interesting Additions

I just wanted to pop in and mention that we've made a few subtle additions to the site over the past few days. We cr...
Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Nov 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

The Timber Terror

In the late 1930s, the dark cloud of war was lurking on the horizon in Europe. Even as the United Kingdom and France...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Nov 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

The Rise and Fall of William J. Sidis

In the waning years of the nineteenth century, boatloads of Russian Jewish immigrants were arriving in New York harbo...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Nov 2006 • Read →
Site News:

Database Problems

Sorry for the delay everybody, but our database server has been experiencing problems due to a Distributed Denial of...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Nov 2006 • Read →
Article:

The Man Who Started the War

In August of 1939, German forces were amassing along the Polish border in preparation to invade. Europe was still hau...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Nov 2006 • Read →
Long-Form:

The Last Great Steam Car

When primitive automobiles first began to appear in the 1800s, their engines were based on steam power, the same powe...
Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Oct 2006 • Read →
Article:

The Gravity Express

About four hundred years ago--sometime in the latter half of the 17th century--Isaac Newton received a letter from th...
Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Oct 2006 • Read →
Site News:

Low Frequency

Several members of our staff have been briefly commandeered-- myself included-- so DamnInteresting.com is operating a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Oct 2006 • Read →
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