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Damn Interesting • Obscure true stories from science & historyA collection of fascinating true stories from history, science, and psychology. In text and podcast form.Damn Interesting • Obscure true stories from science & history Damn Interesting M E N U Science, history, psychology, and technology since 2005. Made by humans. Created Curated A Possible Future An attempt to secure the future of the site, with an unfortunate quantity of moist metaphors. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (19) ✉️ Share Twenty The authors, editors, illustrators, and podcasters of Damn Interesting mark the 20th year (so far) of making interesting stuff. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (21) ✉️ Share There Once Was a Man Called Curley A would-be priest's audacious plan to win his money back from the bookmakers. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (34) ✉️ Share Omiword, a Word Game Introducing Omiword, a free daily word puzzle from the makers of Damn Interesting. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (5) ✉️ Share Much Ado About Adenoids The largest and strangest riot in New York City’s history. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (12) ✉️ Share A Trail Gone Cold Against the odds, a tiny Icelandic town speaks of a local Black ancestor. Geneticists and historians combine forces to uncover the man’s eventful life. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (15) ✉️ Share Breaking a Bit After a rough August, we're taking a much needed break. In the meantime here is a word game we made. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (6) ✉️ Share Giving the Bird the Bird A Brief Note From an Ex-X User. Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (36) ✉️ Share Journey to the Invisible Planet The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets. Damn (2) 💬 Discuss (6) ✉️ Share From Where the Sun Now Stands When the U.S. Army came for their land in 1877, the Nez Perce tribe complied. But tensions boiled over, and Chief Joseph led as they ran for their lives. Damn (0) 💬 Discuss (9) ✉️ Share The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land. Damn (0) 💬 Discuss (12) ✉️ Share The Kingpin of Shanghai From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China. Damn (0) 💬 Discuss (10) ✉️ Share To Hell With Facebook The earliest known version of the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" was written by the English philosophe... Damn (1) 💬 Discuss (75) ✉️ Share Full Archives Older -- Posted by Alan Bellows 65 years ago today, the Soviet Union detonated the most powerful bomb ever constructed The Most Powerful Bomb Ever Constructed 🌎️ damninteresting.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss (62) ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows The scenario he hadn’t prepared himself for was the one in which he found nothing at all. After firing three shots at the lock of the storage-closet door, Welch saw that it contained no secret room, no ring, no conspiracy. He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos. The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch 🌎️ theatlantic.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Video: What if We Can’t Detect Dark Matter? [12:44] 🌎️ youtube.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share We're attempting our first-ever annual fundraiser so we can survive in these times. We need $18,704 more. Click for more info. -- Posted by Alan Bellows This week: Cat physicist, Poe’s portrait, cartwheeling snake, and more! 🌎️ damninteresting.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Photographer Captures Ghostly Face in the Waves on Deadly Beach It's a very dangerous beach. 🌎️ petapixel.com (sea also) Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows What killed 500-plus penguins? How scientists solved the mystery The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were surprised by what they found. 🌎️ npr.org Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars’ ancient crust. 🌎️ arstechnica.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows A Fire Ravaged the ‘Eagle’s Nest,’ an Alpine Retreat Built for Top Nazis. What Happens Next? Police have detained a 33-year-old German citizen in connection with the blaze, which gutted the infamous historic building. In recent years, the mountaintop guesthouse hosted a restaurant, beer garden and exhibit about the site’s dark past 🌎️ smithsonianmag.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows As the female lac bug pierces a tree with her needlelike mouthparts and sucks the sap out, she secretes a goo, also called lac, from a gland on her abdomen to form a cocoon of sorts. Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions Sorry! 🌎️ theatlantic.com Damn (2) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows When we cannot grieve a loss, we lose something else along with it: the chance to register what mattered to us. Grief is how we come to know what we loved in the presence of its absence. We need a language to name the grief that comes without death Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves 🌎️ aeon.co Damn (3) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows But there are actual terrifying objects in space, entities operating on a scale that crush our minds and reduce our human experience to a mote of dust floating in the dark. What’s the scariest object in the universe? It’s Halloween, and nothing is scarier than our terrifying universe 🌎️ scientificamerican.com Mirror Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Look, like any other tool, AI can be used for good, or for evil. If a power tool manufacturer gives your toddler a running chainsaw, you’re probably going to have a bad time. But don’t blame the manufacturer. Some Thing is Happening! A note from the AI companies 🌎️ alanbellows.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss (2) ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Invasion of the Sexy A.I. Joke Thieves Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience. 🌎️ nytimes.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Blockchain firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm TRM says a North Korean hacking unit was likely behind a massive hack at Binance. 🌎️ apnews.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Could a giant sunshade in space ‘solve global warming’? Scientists are taking the idea seriously Some say the concept is complete fantasy, but a detailed analysis suggests that the falling cost of rocket launches might make it feasible in a few decades. 🌎️ nature.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows Driverless 18‑wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road Chaotic roads are still too difficult for automated trucks to navigate. 🌎️ theconversation.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber. 🌎️ quantamagazine.org Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows The breach includes names, job titles, and work contact information, such as email addresses, cell phone numbers, and office locations, of more than 40,000 people who work for the federal department Hacker stole personnel data about thousands of Homeland Security employees, including CBP and ICE agents A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online. 🌎️ techcrunch.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows • Curated by J. A. Macfarlane Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams? Writers are being bombarded daily with invitations from fake book groups and offers to publicise their work. For the scamming industry, aspiring authors can be a soft touch 🌎️ theguardian.com Damn (0) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share -- Posted by Alan Bellows The death, from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, was announced on social media. Patrick Stewart, Master of Shakespeare, ‘Star Trek’ and More, Has Died The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” 🌎️ nytimes.com Damn (3) 💬 Discuss ✉️ Share Older Home About Us Support Us Originals Links Podcasts Surprise Me Archives Software Follow Us Contact Us Home About Us Support Us Originals Links Podcasts Surprise Me Archives Software Follow Us Contact Us Login/Register Made by humans. 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