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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I thought our kids really held their poise out there tonight. Our kids worked hard all week. The only goal we have now is to stay alive every week.
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Our problem, then, so easy to state, so hard to solve, is how to bring about a creative peace and a security which will have a strong foundation.
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We just worked hard at it, ... They had the car set up on the edge. If something had happened and I had to hit the brakes, I wouldn't have had any. They were pushing everything to the limit, using special grease in the wheel bearings and things like that - stuff you wouldn't really need today, but you did then.
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Now we are watching the agony, we are watching the suffering, we can see the extreme destruction, ... That is extremely hard for people to grasp. It's beyond the day-to-day human experience of most people. It's beyond the coping mechanisms of daily life.
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It was probably a lot harder doing it on our own.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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And it's different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it's so close to home. It's affecting a place that many of us have visited and are familiar with. Some of us know people who live there or have relatives in the region. It's much harder to separate ourselves from this.
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Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
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Our goal from the beginning has been to blur the line between education and entertainment, ... why not have one with our goal of education?
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Mental Floss is what it is. It's about people learning information they always thought they should know.
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There's so much in there. ... I'm thrilled to see the final product.