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 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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Both pitchers were on top of their game tonight; we knew they were good and we had to keep it low scoring. Kellen had nice control and we made some tremendous defensive plays all over to hold them to one run.
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We knew they'd press. We didn't handle the ball as well as we wanted and dug ourselves a huge hole. Against Hilton Head Prep, you can't pull yourself back from that far. I thought we put ourselves in position to win.
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Davey was one of the few people who knew Howard Hughes and had a relationship with him at one time.
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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 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 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.
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We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,
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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.