The Wise Book of Whys (23 page)

Authors

This book features the work of seven of TodayIFoundOut.com’s authors, listed below (for which authors wrote which specific topics go here: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/wise-book-whys-addendum/)

Daven Hiskey
: Daven has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, a Web Programmers Certificate, and a fairly significant background in mathematics, physics, astronomy, history, literature, electrical engineering, and music, spending much of his time in college seeing if he could set a record for course credits, student loans, and years spent to achieve a single eight year B.S. degree that had little to do with a good portion of the classes he took. After the University (literally) forced him to graduate with a degree in something, he then found a loophole in their system by continuing on in a graduate program. After completing said program, he promptly started a website, TodayIFoundOut.com and has been doing that ever since.

Iuliia Glushchenko
: Iuliia has a PhD in Sociology and has over eight years of teaching experience at the University of Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine.

Emily Upton
: Emily is a graduate of Hollins University with a B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing. In her free time, she likes to read, travel, cuddle koalas, and pat kangaroos. If you guessed she currently lives in Australia, you’re correct.

Scott Hiskey
: Scott is a long time paramedic and fire fighter who has particular expertise in the medical field and the human body in general. He also has an extensive background in physics, specializing in the fundamental forces.

Matt Blitz
: Matt is a writer, comedian, and winner of multiple “good effort” ribbons. After finishing 53rd in the world in rock, paper, scissors, he went into hiding due to the fame such a distinction brings. He has since come out from hiding to find the world didn’t change much in those 16 hours. Matt is also a field agent/writer/traveler for atlasobscura.com and Obscura Society LA.

Noah Wass
: Noah has a B.S. in Plastics Engineering Technology that allows him to design and build all things polymer related.  When he is not being an engineer, he is contributing to his bike blog, Bike In Review, writing articles for Today I Found Out, riding his bike or camping with his family (when the weather cooperates).

Terynn Boultan
: Terynn has a B.S., as well as a B.E. degree. Her writing career began in elementary school with adventure stories starring her pet hamster, Montgomery. Now with three daughters of her own in elementary school, Terynn continues to write children's fiction and has entered the realm of blogging. She currently runs three blogs: deardaughters.ca, musingsofamom.net and themotherlists.com. She also, of course, writes articles for TodayIFoundOut.com.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Samantha Gudger, Dusti Nielsen, Scott Hiskey, and C.J. Henderson for editing this book and catching many-a-typo and awkwardly worded sentence that my eyes seem to slide right passed.

Noreen who, besides doing most of the graphics work on TodayIFoundOut.com
(including creating the infographics that helped infuse the site with that first bit of significant traffic), also helped design the cover of this book.

The various writers at TodayIFoundOut.com that have helped take it from a reasonably popular personal blog to a site that gets a couple million visitors per month.

Jon, owner of Dumpaday.com, who provides me with daily virtual “water cooler” talk as we’ve worked on building or websites from nothing to a couple of the more popular sites in the world.

And, finally,
Simon Whistler for first emailing me with the idea of an audiobook for TodayIFoundOut.com featuring his prodigious vocal talents, which finally got me to buckle down and create the necessary content for such a work, with the result being
The Wise Book of Whys
.

Daven Hiskey

Gold Bar, Washington

November 2013