Damn Interesting

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

Sure, it's happened to all of us at one time or another... you're strolling down the road minding you own business, a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Sep 2005 • Read →
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One Step Closer to the Hydrogen Economy?

Assuming that humanity finds a means to produce hydrogen without causing as much pollution at the point of origin as...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Sep 2005 • Read →
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WW2: Hitler’s A-bomb

It is well known that Hitler's weapons scientists were pursuing an atomic weapon in the waning days of World War 2, b...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Sep 2005 • Read →
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The Moon: The Next Best Thing to Being There

While rambling about on the moon's surface, the Apollo astronauts spent a lot of time training their Hasselblad EDC c...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Hurricane Katrina: The Story in Pictures

This incredible annotated photo gallery by a New Orleans resident/Nicaraguan immigrant chronicles the progression of...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Sep 2005 • Read →
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The Many Benefits of the Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow

It's a foregone conclusion that eventually-- most likely within the next twenty to thirty years-- the technology to a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Sep 2005 • Read →
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The Inexplicable Voynich Manuscript

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book Library is in possession of many fascinating historic texts, but perhaps its mos...
Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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False Sense of Security: Master-Keyed Locks

Matt Blaze of AT&T labs published an interesting research paper detailing a troubling fundamental weakness in master-...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Sep 2005 • Read →
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WW2: Britain’s Giant Concrete Ears

Early in World War 2, before the invention of radar, the British isles had an interesting system devised to detect in...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Regenerating Rodents

Not so long ago, researchers at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia made a serendipitous discovery: when they punche...
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Sep 2005 • Read →
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