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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life

About two and one-half billion years ago, life on Earth was still in its infancy. Complex organisms such as plants an...
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Sep 2006 • Read →
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Happy Damn Birthday

One year ago today, the first Damn Interesting article was published. We had hoped to use this milestone occasion to...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Sep 2006 • Read →
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The Atomic Automobile

During the 1950s, much of the world was quivering with anticipation over the exciting prospects of nuclear power. Ato...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Aug 2006 • Read →
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The Ruins of Fordlândia

In the early 20th century, a cartel of Dutch and English rubber barons had a stranglehold on the vast majority of the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Aug 2006 • Read →
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Recent Downtime

Due to absurd high temperatures, our web hosting provider in California has been experiencing some power outages, gen...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Jul 2006 • Read →
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The Sleepy Sickness

Beginning as early as 1916, and continuing well into the 1920s, an unusual and disturbing illness devastated millions...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Damn Interesting: Reminder

If your fancy is tickled by the thought of writing for Damn Interesting, you've got a few hours yet to seize upon the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Damn Interesting: Join Us

As you may have noticed, we here at Damn Interesting are not producing content at the brisk pace we once enjoyed. The...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Jul 2006 • Read →
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Damn Interesting Problems

Due to a glitch of unknown origin which resulted in some data loss, there will be a slight delay before the next Damn...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Jun 2006 • Read →
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Bad Rye and the Salem Witches

In the late 1600s, the Puritan settlement of Salem in Massachusetts toppled into chaos when accusations of witchcraft...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2006 • Read →
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