Welcome to a special Spring Break edition of Hey! Isn’t That Interesting? The column that tells amusing and interesting tales.

This week is the story of our photo shoot.

First, a little background. If you’ve been a regular reader of our blog, I’m sure you’ve noticed pictures of our authors on the right column of the home page. For the first few months of the blog’s existence, the images were kind of random and inconsistent, even of poor resolution. I wanted to change that.

So, I took Terri Smith, our fabulous professional photographer and begged her to take new head shots of our authors for the site. She agreed and we did. Now, I would be lying if I said the head shots where the only things that came out of that photo shoot.

After the jump are the results of that afternoon.

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It’s time for another Hey! Isn’t that Interesting? The column that shares a quirky story and then tells you something about it.

Today’s entry contains a story that happened to me this week. No, it isn’t biographical or historical in nature, like my previous entry, but it is interesting just the same.

The tale begins after the jump!

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Hey guys!

It’s Gaby here with this new column that I will be sporadically writing among other regular posts. It’s called “Hey! Isn’t that interesting?” A column that will take an interesting story or fact and apply a lesson from it to your life!

I’m always interested in cool and often unusual stories. They make things exciting and captivating. Stories can also make complex themes and ideas more understandable to people.

Today’s installment of “Hey! Isn’t that Interesting?” is the story of a man named John Paul Stapp. A man who would become a real life human bullet all in his dedication to science!

Continued after the jump.

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