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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Short Fiction: Made of Meat

Terry Bisson's short story "Made of Meat" was published in OMNI magazine in 1991, and I've always found it to be ente...
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Evil and Destructive Apophis

Astronomers have been keeping their eyes on a 1,200 foot wide chunk of space rock that has been hanging around the ne...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Soldier Who Wouldn’t Quit

On December 17, 1944, the Japanese army sent a twenty-three year old soldier named Hiroo Onoda to the Philippines to...
Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Hydrogen from Microbes

In a hot spring on the Russian volcanic island of Kunashir, there lives a particular type of microbe which consumes p...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Birth of the Bermuda Triangle

On December 5, 1945 at 4:00pm Eastern Time, a fragment of a radio transmission was heard from a training flight of fi...
Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Color Photos From the World War I Era

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorski...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Dec 2005 • Read →
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History’s Youngest Mother

In 1939, a man from a small village in the Andes mountains carried his five-year-old daughter Lina into a hospital in...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Always Watch Out for Number One

If you ever plan to cheat on your taxes, here's something to consider (besides prison): Make sure that most of the nu...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Man Who Was a Dwarf and a Giant

Very few details are known about the life of Adam Rainer, but in a way, he represents an extraordinary piece of medic...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Dec 2005 • Read/Listen →
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Brain Fingerprinting

There is a new, non-invasive technology being developed which is able to peer into your brain to discover whether you...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Nov 2005 • Read →
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