Scatter Brained

About the Editors
Will Pearson
 and 
Mangesh Hattikudur
 met as freshmen 
at Duke University, and in their senior year parlayed their 
cafeteria conversations into the fi rst issue of 
mental
_fl oss
 
magazine. Five years later, they’re well on their way to creat-
ing a knowledge empire. In addition to the magazine, a board 
game, and a weekly CNN 
Headline News
 segment, the two 
have collaborated on fi ve 
mental
_fl oss
  books.  Will  and 
Mangesh also codirected 
Citizen Kane
 in 1941 while hiding 
inside a rubber Orson Welles suit.
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John Green
 is the author of the award-winning novel 
Look-
ing for Alaska
 (2005), which has been translated into nine 
languages and is being made into a fi lm by Paramount Pic-
tures. John also contributes commentary to NPR’s 
All Th
 ings 
Considered
 and works for 
Booklist
 magazine, reviewing liter-
ary fi ction and children’s picture books as well as pretty much 
everything that gets published involving boxing, conjoined 
twins, and/or little people (although John himself is quite 
tall). In short, his brain is pretty scattered.

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