Damn Interesting

Author: Alan Bellows • Page 29/34

Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Ancient Greek Computer Technology

In 1900, Elias Stadiatos was diving near the Greek island of Antikythera searching for sea sponges when he encountere...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Is Your Printer Spying on You?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recently been spending a lot of time scrutinizing hundreds of printed te...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Oct 2005 • Read →
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A Plasmoid for the Common Man

I don't know why we continue to call them "everyday household items." Behind their coy, artificial commonality, man...
Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Do-It-Yourself Gauss Rifle Hobby Kit

If you're a normal, well-adjusted individual, you are probably already in possession of one or more Gauss rifles (aka...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Get Out of Voice-Jail Free

The Find-A-Human database on QuickBase.com lists the secret touch-tone combinations that will immediately expel you f...
Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Oct 2005 • Read →
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RFID Chips: The New Privacy-Killer

If you're the type to be a bit bothered by the privacy-breaching potential of shopper loyalty cards, then RFID tags s...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Bitten by the Nuclear Dragon

After the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the US Army Air Force was prep...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Seeing Sunspots

There's a town in New Mexico called Sunspot, and it's home to one sweet piece of optical hardware: the National Scien...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2005 • Read →
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The Life and Death and Life of Dark Matter

Judging from the observed movements of distance bodies in outer space, scientists have long speculated that there is...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2005 • Read →
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Sonic Torpedo Defense

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a new ship defense technology that uses massive a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2005 • Read →
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