Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
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A national accreditation scheme implies regulation and de facto licensing of reporters, a concept abhorrent to most of us. Let individual journalism programs forge partnerships with industry rather than force-fitting everyone to a single system. Employers know which courses produce the best graduates and many choose to look no further.
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All the political appointees have been given their marching orders.
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and be independent and let them go and not worry about having to deal with me.
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The latest ANZ job advertisements data suggest that there will be no improvement in the labor market over the next few months, with little prospect of significant growth in employment and with the unemployment rate likely to trend higher.
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The last of the sniper teams dispatched by Robert Kennedy in 1963 to assassinate Fidel Castro were captured in Havana.
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The market has got itself into a far-too-dovish spot given the tone of the Fed-speak. There is potential for rate expectations to rebuild and that should support the dollar.
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There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
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I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.
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Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.
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Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.
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The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.