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• Pat's Mental Floss Trivia Contest
  Pat's Papers, October 16, 2012
• Want Twitter Success? Create Content
  Digiday, September 14, 2012
• 25 Twitter Accounts That Will Make You Smarter
  Mashable.com, July 27, 2012
• Fast Chat: Will Pearson
  Adweek, June 21, 2011
• Publisher Looks for Hat Trick in Trivia Magazine
  WSJ.com, March 14, 2011
• Our 50 Favorite Magazines
  Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2007
• 100 Blogs We Love
  PC World, June 25, 2007
• 30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
  Inc.com, June 2007
• Mental Floss to Publish Four Books
  Birmingham News, May 19, 2006
• Read This, Feel Smarter
  Cleveland Magazine, May 2006
• 'Forbidden Knowledge' filled with fun, easy-to-read facts
  Currents, February 16, 2006
• Magazine Rack: Mental Floss
  Media Post, February 3, 2006
• Mental Floss
  New York Review of Magazines, January 2006
• Publishers' Trivial Pursuits
  The Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2005
• Best Gifts for $50 or Less: For Travel, For Play
  Reader's Digest, December 2005
• Boomer Can Hold Her Own at Mental Floss
  Birmingham News, Nov. 23, 2005
• Flossing: That's Way Too Many Mr. T's! (The Lie is 'A')
  Newsweek, July 4, 2005
• Playing With Your Mind
  Birmingham News, June 1, 2005
• Magazine Rack: Mental Floss
  Media Post, February 10, 2005
• Mysteries of the Universe Revealed
  Utne magazine, January/February 2005
• Mental Floss Book is a Top 10 Reference
  Birmingham News, November 18, 2004
• Son of Einstein: MAD Magazine Meets Smithsonian
  Duke magazine, September/October 2004
• Mental Floss to Provide Content for AOL
  Birmingham Business Journal, September 1, 2004
• The Wonder Boys: Condensed Knowledge
  PopMatters magazine, August 10, 2004
• Trivia Mania: The Triumph of Useless Information
  The Christian Science Monitor, July 16, 2004
• Young Entrepreneurs Shun the Nine-to-Five 
  College Journal, from the Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004
• Home Team: Couple Leaves the Corporate World to Help Operate a Fledgling Magazine
  The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 21, 2004
• Making Knowledge Fun: A Look Inside the Pages of Mental Floss Magazine
  Trivia Hall of Fame, June 2004
• So You Think You Know Everything
  CNN.com, May 19, 2004
• The Titans of Trivia
  Newsweek magazine, May 3, 2004
• Condensed Knowledge: No-Carb, Low-Fat Food for Thought
  The Hartford Courant, April 26, 2004
• What's Online: Cobweb Killer
  The Houston Chronicle, April 6, 2004
• Mental Floss Editors Prepare First Book
  Birmingham Business Journal, April 5, 2004
• Mental Floss Makes Your Brain Minty Fresh
  NYU Livewire News Service, March 10, 2004
• Librarians' Choice 2003 - Magazines
  The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, January 2004
• Sex, Silliness in the Year of Publishing Shamelessly
  The Washington Post, December 30, 2003
• Hoaxes Put Focus on Fantasy, Hopes
  The (Daily) Oklahoman, December 23, 2003
• Magazine Review: Mental Floss
  The Arizona Republic, November 23, 2003
• Read Once a Day for a Minty-Fresh Mind
  Reader's Digest magazine, November 2003
• Hygiene for the Mind
  The Birmingham News, November 6, 2003
• Brush Up with Mental Floss
  New York Library Association, October 8, 2003
• Murdoch Might Not Be as Bad as We Thought
  The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 5, 2003
• If It's Trivial, Magazine Is In Pursuit
  The Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2003
• Swimsuit Issue Stars Albert Einstein
  CNN.com, August 27, 2003
• Upstarts: Cleaning Up at Newsstands
  Inc. magazine, August 2003
• For Good Mental Health, Floss
  Northern Ohio Live magazine, July 2003
• New Magazine Makes Learning Fun with Humor
  The (Daily) Oklahoman, June 17, 2003
• Eye on Einstein
  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 25, 2003
• News for Know-It-Alls
  The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, May 3, 2003
• Two Guys, an Idea, and a National Magazine
  Business Alabama, May 2003
• The Newsstand: Thinking Smart
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 29, 2003
• Burning Question: Mental Floss
  Entertainment Weekly magazine, April 25, 2003
• Mental Floss Educates, Entertains Brains
  NBC13.com, April 24, 2003
• Eccentric Magazine Has Some Roots in Delaware
  The News Journal, March 28, 2003
• Local Magazine Signs Harper-Collins Book Deal
  Birmingham Business Journal, March 24, 2003
• Magazine Keeps on Giving
  The Syracuse Post-Standard, January 12, 2003
• A Smart (-Alecky) Read
  Newsweek magazine, December 14, 2002
• Mental Flossing South Africa
  SAfrica.info, The Official South Africa Gateway, December 13, 2002
• Magazine Review: Mental Floss
  The Arizona Republic, December 8, 2002
• A Mag That's Gone Mental
  Folio magazine, November 1, 2002
• Entertaining Magazine Improves Your Mental Hygiene
  The Albuquerque Journal, October 11, 2002
• Reviewer's Choice: Mental Floss (Issue 5)
  The Dallas Morning News , September 28, 2002
• MagWatch: Dishing up Brain Food
  The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, September 26, 2002
• Magazine Aims To Make People Feel Smart
  The Chagrin Valley Times, August 29, 2002
• Mental Hygiene
  black & white, July 18, 2002
• Mental Floss Uses Web to Best Advantage, But Print Comes First
  BlueEar.com, July 2, 2001
• Mental Floss, For Feeling Smarter
  Media Life magazine, June 3, 2002
• Magazine Draws Duo's Cash, Time
  Crain's Cleveland Business, June 3, 2002
• Top 10 New Magazines of 2001
  The Library Journal, May 1, 2002
• Clean Minds
  Delaware Today, April 1, 2002
• Quirky Magazine Aims at Lazy Einstein In Us
  The Arizona Republic, March 11, 2002
• Hoover Man Finds Success Publishing New Magazine
  The Birmingham News, March 1, 2002
• 30 Most Notable Launches of 2001
  Mr. Magazine, February 2002
• Alumni at Duke Start Up Magazine
  The Charlotte Observer, December 30, 2001
• For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out cobwebs
  The Chicago Tribune, November 23, 2001
• Mental Floss: Feeling Smart for Dummies
  The Washington Post, November 20, 2001
• ZineStream
  The Independent, October 31, 2001
• A Glance at the Debut Issue of Mental Floss
  Chronicle of Higher Education, August 22, 2001
• Mental Floss: Slick Publication Packed with Improbable Facts
  The San Antonio Express-News, July 29, 2001
• What's New, What's Hot
  Mr. Magazine, July 2001
• Mental Floss: Hoover Grad Founds 'Feel Smart' Magazine
  The Birmingham News, June 20, 2001
• Feeling Smart: Five Graduates Set to Launch National Magazine
  Duke Magazine, June 2001