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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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The Hutchison Effect

An inventor in Canada named John Hutchison is credited with one of science's most unusual and controversial discoveri...
Written by Alan Bellows • 17 Apr 2006 • Read →
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The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors

Hail, in and of itself, is not an unusual weather phenomenon. The frozen precipitation occurs inside storm clouds whe...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Apr 2006 • Read →
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A Potentially Disastrous Design Error

With its distinctive forty-five degree diagonal crown, the Citicorp building is one of the most recognizable skyscrap...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Apr 2006 • Read →
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DamnInteresting.com Makes Yahoo! Picks

We've been so busy that we hadn't even noticed, but it turns out that DamnInteresting.com was featured as the Yahoo!...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Lucid Decapitation

For thousands of years, the forceful removal of the human head has been used as a form of capital punishment. In fact...
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Germany’s Pleasure Dome

In the northeastern portion of Germany, about thirty-six miles southeast of Berlin, a passenger train and shuttle ser...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Choose Your Own Cola Adventure

Modern bottled beverages come in a plethora of flavors... cherry, vanilla, chocolate, lemon, lime, and turkey & gravy...
Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Apr 2006 • Read →
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The Remains of Lady Be Good

In early November, 1958, a British oil exploration team was flying over North Africa's harsh Libyan Desert when they...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Apr 2006 • Read →
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You Make Your Own Luck

Some individuals seem to have an inexplicable abundance of good fortune. They are successful in matters of love, in t...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Apr 2006 • Read →
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The Gravity-Powered Aircraft

Our world is certainly not left wanting for free sources of energy. The sun vomits an absurd amount of energy upon th...
Written by Alan Bellows • 31 Mar 2006 • Read →
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