Jen Pinkowski

Joined: May 19, 2015

Jen Pinkowski is the former senior science editor of MentalFloss.com. Previously, Jen reported about not one but two underground cities in Turkey, discovered Bronze Age artifacts in the Mediterranean, profiled Thailand's lone mosquito taxonomist, petted baby dinosaur skin in Utah, tracked frog-eating bats in the Panamanian jungle with night-vision goggles, and flew a plane near Istanbul when she really, really shouldn't have.

Sinking in Shark-Infested Waters: WWII Survivors Recall Navy Disaster | National Geographic

The famous Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado was home to Ancient Puebloan people for hundreds of years.

The Lewis Chessmen: a few pieces from a collection of 93 found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

How does this image of a lotus pod make you feel?

'Tutankhamun & The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs' Exhibition - Press View

Tut's tomb was stuffed to the brim with thousands of objects meant to make his afterlife eternally posh.

Scientists fear that a single merciless pathogen could wipe out many grapes around the world in the same way that a single fungus eradicated the variety of potato common across Ireland in the 1840s.

A volcano erupts on the Pacific island of Vanuatu, part of Earth's Ring of Fire.

Whether they're minor eruptions or cataclysmic explosions like Vesuvius, Tambora, and Krakatau, volcanoes have had a major impact on the world's climate and history.

Ata has never been an alien, but she's always been an enigma.

If you bang your leg or arm hard enough, the smallest blood vessels in your body, called capillaries, can break.

The latest story in WHY?, our new series for curious kids and their parents.

The goal is to return CO2 to where it came from—and keep it there.

Mental Floss spoke to ETH Zurich archivist Michael Gasser about the papers—including one letter in which Einstein calls his good friend a "frozen whale."