Portfolio
Selected Writing
“Ahead of the Super Bowl, a Look Back at the Strangest Halftime Show Ever” - MensJournal.com
“One Type of Accidental Death Is Becoming More Common, New Analysis Reveals” - MensJournal.com
“The Most Overused Slang Term of 2025 is One Experts Say You Should Banish Immediately” - MensJournal.com
“The Bizarre Free Love Cult That Housed a Presidential Assassin” - MentalFloss.com
“Daniel Radcliffe on Space Travel, Russian Literature, and Napoleon” - mental_floss magazine (cover story)
“Frost Bite: When Sub-Zero Temperatures Shattered an Antarctic Explorer’s Teeth” - MentalFloss.com
“Ken Jennings on His New Book of Kennections Quizzes, ‘Jeopardy!’, and His Favorite ’80s Wrestler” - MentalFloss.com
“How Did the Teddy Bear Get Its Name?” - MentalFloss.com
“Seward’s Folly: The Conspiracy That Has Plagued New York City’s William Seward Statue for More Than a Century” - MentalFloss.com
“Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena” - MentalFloss.com
“5 Fascinating True Crime Books to Read, Recommended by Casey Sherman” - MentalFloss.com
“How Do Two-Way Mirrors Work?” - MentalFloss.com
“8 Animals That Recently Went Extinct” - MentalFloss.com
“Head Case: What the Only Soft Tissue Dodo Head in Existence Is Teaching Scientists About These Extinct Birds” - MentalFloss.com
“The Flesh-Eating Beetles that Work at Natural History Museums” - MentalFloss.com
“The Most Secretive Book in History” - mental_floss magazine
“Welcome to the Food Chain” - Popular Mechanics (Honorable mention in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009)
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Behind the Scenes with Andy Serkis” - PopularMechanics.com
“James Cameron’s Deep-Ocean Dive, Diagrammed” - Popular Mechanics
“Explosive Cinema” - Popular Mechanics
“This Is My Job: Fossil Collections Manager” - Popular Mechanics
Selected Editing
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“Making Waves: A Page-Turning History of the Beach Read” - MentalFloss.com
“10 Artists Who Refused to Play Live Aid” - MentalFloss.com
“How Kathy Bates’s Grandfather Got Wrapped Up in the Mystery of a Mummified John Wilkes Booth” - MentalFloss.com
“8 (Supposedly) Cursed Books” - MentalFloss.com
“Certified Stinker: The Leonardo da Vinci Musical Financed by Guano” - MentalFloss.com
“15 of History’s Greatest Mysteries” - MentalFloss.com
“Mapped: The Spookiest Place Name in Every State” - MentalFloss.com
“The Strange History of the Worst Sentence in English Literature” - MentalFloss.com
“10 Slang Terms Kids Are Using in 2025, Decoded” - MentalFloss.com
“When the Guy Behind “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” Wrote a Song About Cannibalism” - MentalFloss.com
“ ‘Phantom of the Paradise’: How Brian De Palma’s Flop Rock Opera Became A Cult Classic” - MentalFloss.com
“Linguistic Siblings: 14 Pairs of Words With Surprisingly Shared Etymologies” - MentalFloss.com
“What Is Gen Z Stare?” - MentalFloss.com
“The Grisly 1924 Crime That Led to the Forensic ‘Murder Bag’ ” - MentalFloss.com
“Penelope, the Bronx Zoo Platypus That “Faked” a Pregnancy and Then Disappeared” - MentalFloss.com
“10 Surprising Things You Shouldn’t Put Down Your Drain” - MentalFloss.com
“The Strange Literary Puzzle That Only 4 People Have Solved” - MentalFloss.com
“15 Euphemisms for Terrible Things, Explained” - MentalFloss.com
“Caught in the Devil's Backbone: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis” - MentalFloss.com
“5 Ways the English Language Breaks Its Own Rules” - MentalFloss.com
“Rules for Murder: The Detection Club and the Evolution of the Murder Mystery” - MentalFloss.com
“You’re Probably Mispronouncing ‘Biopic’—Here’s Why” - MentalFloss.com
“101 Gadgets That Changed the World” - Popular Mechanics
“I’ll Try Anything: Flying a Legend” - Popular Mechanics
“MythBusters Workshop: Frozen Skiff” - Popular Mechanics
“This Is My Job: Art Detective” - Popular Mechanics
Selected Video
“16 Facts That Sound Like Lies” - The List Show, Mental Floss on YouTube (writer, host)
“8 Mysterious Phantom Islands” - The List Show, Mental Floss on YouTube (writer, host)
“10 Bizarre Animal Smuggling Stories” - The List Show, Mental Floss on YouTube (writer, host)
“100 Fascinating Titanic Facts” - The List Show, Mental Floss on YouTube (host)
“The Real Origins of 20 Scary Stories” - The List Show, Mental Floss on YouTube (host)
“Misconceptions About Cats” - Misconceptions, Mental Floss on YouTube (host)
“How Mad Magazine Changed Comedy & Angered the FBI” - Throwback, Mental Floss on YouTube (host)
Selected TV Appearances
“Candy Clash” - History’s Greatest of All Time With Peyton Manning, HISTORY
“Invention Showdown” - History’s Greatest of All Time With Peyton Manning, HISTORY
“Empire of Convenience” - The Food That Built America, HISTORY
“Coffee: A Brewed Awakening” - The Food That Built America, HISTORY
“Legends of the Mall” - The Food That Built America, HISTORY
“Wipe Out the Competition” - The Mega-Brands That Built America, HISTORY
“Photo Bombs” - The Mega-Brands That Built America, HISTORY
“Hook Island Monster, Skydiver's Plane Stall, and Somalia Freighter Phantom” - The Proof Is Out There, HISTORY
“Worm in the Sky, Skeletal Mystery Remains, and Thessaloniki Mystery Sounds” - The Proof Is Out There, HISTORY
“Apollo 16 UFO, Radiation Burn Mystery, and Bosnian Spheres” - The Proof Is Out There, HISTORY
Podcasts
“TR vs. Time” - History Vs. Theodore Roosevelt (writer, host, executive producer)
“TR vs. Language” - History Vs. Theodore Roosevelt (writer, host, executive producer)
“History Vs. TR” - History Vs. Theodore Roosevelt (writer, host, executive producer)
“History Vs. Bonus Episode: The Case of the Missing Colt .38” - History Vs. Theodore Roosevelt (writer, host, executive producer)
More episodes here.
Media
“Fun Facts About Libraries” - The Curiosity Desk, WGHB
“What Did Teddy Roosevelt Do to Dr. Seuss?!” - Part Time Genius
“Mental Fries / Vocal Floss” - The Vocal Fries Podcast
“How Mental Floss became the leading publisher of obscure trivia” - Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter
“Mental Floss Editor in Chief Erin McCarthy on the title’s 20-year mission to make readers smarter” - Media Voices Podcast
“How Mental Floss Built One Of The Quirkiest, Most Delightful Brands In Journalism” - Forbes