Mary Carmichael

Mary Carmichael is the books and web editor of Mental Floss and a regular
contributor to Newsweek, for whom she wrote the 2004 cover story "The
Quest for Memory Drugs" and many more articles on science and health. She
has also worked as a producer of the national public radio show "The
Infinite Mind" and an associate web producer for Frontline, and reported
from Ground Zero on 9/11. She lives in Boston.