Zack Jordan • Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/author/zack-jordan/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:57:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 The Seventh Sense https://www.damninteresting.com/the-seventh-sense/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-seventh-sense/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:23:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=678 The Seventh Sense:

From childhood, we are taught that the human body has five senses. I’m sure we can all recite them: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. This list has remained unchanged since the time of Aristotle. To most people, a “sixth sense” refers either to one outside the realm of the scientific, or one that simply […]

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-seventh-sense/feed/ 60 The Bridle on the Neck of the Sea https://www.damninteresting.com/the-bridle-on-the-neck-of-the-sea/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-bridle-on-the-neck-of-the-sea/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:45:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=646 The Bridle on the Neck of the Sea:

In the grand old year of 1492, Christopher Columbus set out from Spain with a fleet of three tiny ships. His journey began in August of that year, but it was March of the next before the Old World heard from Columbus again. Time taken: nearly eight months. Over a century later, in September of […]

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