OTHER WRITING

In addition to books, I write nonfiction articles and humor pieces for kids and adults. You’ll find a bit of everything in these samples: history, science, popular culture, satire, and more.

NONFICTION ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

Here are some of the articles I've written for Mental Floss Magazine and mentalfloss.com.

• 10 Ways the Bicycle Moved Us Forward

• 11 of the Greatest Class Pranks in History

• The Secret Origin of 7 Extremely Important Actions

• What Is Cloud Nine?

• The Youthful Pranks of 5 Famous People

• Apollo Insurance

• Square Trees

• Maps

And here are a few of the articles and interviews I wrote for Nickelodeon Magazine:

Here are two posts from a series of health tips I wrote for TheVisualMD.com:

“What’s So Bad About Belly Fat?” and “Mercury in Fish: How Much Is Too Much?”

HUMOR STORIES

• A Christmas-themed op-ed piece published in The Washington Post
• A marine biology comic I wrote for SpongeBob Comics.
• A sample of the humor stories I wrote during my years as editor and editor-in-chief of Nickelodeon Magazine: 

PUZZLES AND QUIZZES

Here are three of the many puzzles I wrote for Nick Mag:

I wrote these quizzes for Disney's Phineas and Ferb Magazine. 

• Do you have what it takes to work for Dr. Doofenschmirtz? Find out in “Help Wanted: Evil Assistant."

• How do you tell a real platypus from a cartoon platypus? The answer is in this “Platypus Matchup" chart.