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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I think we were pretty fortunate. Not many kids get to play basketball together for that long. We had such good chemistry. We pretty much knew what the other guys were going to do -- or at least we knew long before the other team did.
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There are so many strategies that the arts teaches as far as higher-level thinking. To take kids out of the arts is kind of like taking a child out of science to do math.
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On the road, where our kids have played pretty well for 48 minutes . . . if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way,
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What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?
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It's difficult for some military personnel after five or six years who may be married, have kids and other financial obligations, ... If they haven't banked some on the side, it's tough.
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When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
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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.
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It's good training for a writer, ... entertaining people, telling them about your life, listening as they tell you about theirs.
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I think training is the key ... of the conference, ... One of the biggest things is being able to network with people from all over.
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We're a far better team. We'd played and beat better teams than that.
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We had never seen one before, Ben is the one who makes the decisions.