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Liver-Eating Johnson

From the cloudy reservoir of history it is often difficult to separate legend from reality, and such is the case with...

Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Urine For a Treat

A type of mushroom called Amanita muscaria grows in some parts of Siberia, and it contains a cocktail of hallucinogen...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Smoke Detectors and a Radioactive Boyscout

David Hahn was an Eagle Scout who had a merit badge in atomic energy; as everyone should know, that is ample educatio...

Written by Jason Bellows • 19 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Phineas Gage’s Brain Injury

In 1848, a twenty-five-year-old construction foreman named Phineas Gage won nationwide fame by way of a hole in his h...

Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Most Powerful Bomb Ever Constructed

On 30 October 1961, over the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Sea, Soviet scientists detonated the most powerful...

Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Hazards of Eating Bats

Bats, along with spiders and snakes, are one of the most frequently feared animals. Ask any bat lover, and they will...

Written by Bryan Lowder • 13 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Prepare for Ludicrous Speed

In 1957, German theoretical physicist Burkhard Heim publicly outlined a new idea for spacecraft propulsion. It was ba...

Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Amputation Fetishism

In the early 20th century, there was a sharp increase in the number of people openly seeking to have one or more of t...

Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Physics of Quicksand

Next time you're traipsing around in a wet, sandy, unfamiliar area, you had best be on your guard for the exotic mate...

Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The “Wow!” Signal

It's no rare occurrence in science fiction: The introverted researcher working the graveyard shift at a SETI radio ob...

Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Jan 2006 • Read →

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