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Alan Bellows

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http://www.damninteresting.com

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History, Science, Nonfiction

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Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty years, I kept this project afloat by working part-time engineering jobs to pay the bills, and spending the other halves of my work days researching, writing, editing, and podcasting. But in recent years, the landscape has shifted, and those part-time positions appear to have gone extinct. Employers want all or nothing–at

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	Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories 4.06 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsettling May Have Occurred 3.19 avg rating — 47 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damn Interesting: Everything So Far by Alan Bellows (Goodreads Author), Josh Harding, Bryan Lowder 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damn Interesting: The Greatest Hits So Far by Alan Bellows (Goodreads Author), Zack Jordan, Greg Bjerg 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

by Stanley Fish

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

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