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

The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia

There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto...
Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2006 • Read/Listen →
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Unskilled and Unaware of It

When asked, most individuals will describe themselves as better-than-average in areas such as leadership, social skil...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Mar 2006 • Read →
Curio/Podcast:

Professor Edgerton’s Atomic Camera

During the early days of atomic bomb experiments in the 1940s, nuclear weapons scientists had some difficulty studyin...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Mar 2006 • Read/Listen →
Article:

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time...
Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Mar 2006 • Read →
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The Six-Stroke Engine

Under the hood of almost all modern automobiles there sits a four-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE). Though the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Mar 2006 • Read →
Article:

Shortness of Dark

Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Th...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Mar 2006 • Read →
Article:

The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder

In a nutshell, evolution describes the fact that in a given set of organisms, those which manage to survive are the s...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Mar 2006 • Read →
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The Grand Canyon Skyway

When standing at the rail of the observation deck of the Sears Tower-- one of the tallest buildings in the world-- ma...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Mar 2006 • Read →
Article:

Watch the Skies in the Year 52,007 A.D.

Fifty thousand years from now-- if all goes according to plan-- a bright streak will smudge the sky as a man-made met...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Mar 2006 • Read →
Curio:

The Falkirk Wheel

Near Falkirk in Scotland, the Forth & Clyde Canal meets with the Union Canal, however at their meeting point the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Mar 2006 • Read →
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