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Mental Floss: Companies, Notable contributors & Media coverage and awards

Mental Floss (stylized as mental_floss) is an American online magazine and digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials. It is owned by Minute Media, an international digital media publisher based in London, England, with an associated research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is based in New York City.…

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Mental Floss topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies, Notable contributors and Media coverage and awards as prominent areas in the source structure around Mental Floss.

Related topics
63
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
68
Extracted relationships
177
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
68

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Notable contributors · 22 topics
Media coverage and awards · 16 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Origin · 6 topics
Magazine sections · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based in
New York City, New York, United States
Company
Minute Media
Country
United States
Final issue Number
2016 November/December(print) v. 15, no. 6
First issue
2001; 25 years ago (2001)
Founder
Will Pearson · Mangesh Hattikudur

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Origin

Notable contributors

Magazine sections

Media coverage and awards

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Mental Floss connects Entity context

The extracted context around Mental Floss shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Mental Floss → Alton Brown, America's Linguistics Journalism Award, Apple Computer, Author, Author Ransom Riggs, Be Amazing, Benedict Arnold, Benedict XVI, Celebrity, Channels, Comedian Amir Blumenfeld, Comedian Elliott Morgan, Comedian Max Silvestri, Craig Benzine, Encyclopædia Britannica, Green, Hank Green, Having, He, In Another extracted example is Mental Floss → Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Best Cultural Blog, Best Websites, Chicago Tribune's, CNN, Dallas Morning News, DigidayRecognized, Entertainment Weekly, Finalist, Forbes, General Excellence, Inc, June, Listed, Los Angeles Times, Mangesh Hattikudur, May, National Magazine Awards, Newsweek, Other. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Mental Floss

Top relations

related to Notable contributors · 46
Mental Floss → Alton Brown, America's Linguistics Journalism Award, Apple Computer, Author, Author Ransom Riggs, Be Amazing, Benedict Arnold, Benedict XVI, Celebrity, Channels, Comedian Amir Blumenfeld, Comedian Elliott Morgan, Comedian Max Silvestri, Craig Benzine, Encyclopædia Britannica, Green, Hank Green, Having, He, In
related to Media coverage and awards · 35
Mental Floss → Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Best Cultural Blog, Best Websites, Chicago Tribune's, CNN, Dallas Morning News, DigidayRecognized, Entertainment Weekly, Finalist, Forbes, General Excellence, Inc, June, Listed, Los Angeles Times, Mangesh Hattikudur, May, National Magazine Awards, Newsweek, Other
related to Books · 20
Mental Floss → Almost, America, An Irreverent Romp Through, BeginningBe, Civilization's Best BitsGenius Instruction, Cocktail Party Cheat SheetsCondensed, Complete, Difference, Entertaining Story, Entirely, History, KnowledgeForbidden KnowledgeInstant KnowledgeIn, ListoryThe Mental Floss History, ManualScatterbrainedWhat's, Mental Floss History, Only The Greatest Lists, The, The Book, United States, World
related to Mangesh Hattikudur · 14
Mental Floss → American, Arts, Bachelor, Duke, Duke University, Erik Sass, Hattikudur, Mangesh Hattikudur, Pearson, T-shirts, The Huffington Post, The Mental Floss History, They, United States
related to Origin · 11
Mental Floss → According, Campus Edition, Duke, Duke University, Hattikudur, Later, Mangesh Hattikudur, Pearson, The, We, William
related to Magazine sections · 10
Mental Floss → Be Amazing, Each, Features, Go Mental, Most Important Questions, Scatterbrained, Shel Silverstein's, Some, The Quiz, Universe
related to Recurring themes · 10
Mental Floss → Albert Einstein, Einstein, Every, Initially, It, Science, Ten Famous Monkeys, Ten Issue, Ten Most Forgettable Presidents, The
related to Will Pearson · 9
Mental Floss → Arts, Bachelor, Duke, Duke University, Hattikudur, Mangesh Hattikudur, Pearson, Will Pearson, William
Founder · 2
Mental Floss → Mangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson
Based in · 1
Mental Floss → New York City, New York, United States

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

mental floss magazine hattikudur pearson media issue youtube channel company 000 website mangesh trivia com first 2001 minute based duke

Mental Floss relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 177 structured relationships around Mental Floss. Examples in this analysis include Mental Floss → Based in → New York City, New York, United States and Mental Floss → Company → Minute Media. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Mental FlossBased inNew York City, New York, United States1.00infobox
Mental FlossCompanyMinute Media1.00infobox
Mental FlossCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Mental FlossFinal issue Number2016 November/December(print) v. 15, no. 61.00infobox
Mental FlossFirst issue2001; 25 years ago (2001)1.00infobox
Mental FlossFounderWill Pearson1.00infobox
Mental FlossFounderMangesh Hattikudur1.00infobox
Mental FlossISSN1543-47021.00infobox
Mental FlossLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Mental FlossWebsitementalfloss.com1.00infobox
The Mental Floss History of the United States along with writer Erik Sass.Will PearsonWilliam Einstance ofThey have collaborated on books0.80text
The Mental Floss History of the United States along with writer Erik Sassinstance ofThey have collaborated on books0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Mental Floss bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Mental, Magazine and History. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Mental Floss
    • Mental
    • Magazine
    • History
    • Media
    • Issue
    • Hattikudur
    • Pearson
    • Dennis
    • Books
    • Year
    • First
    • Mangesh
  • mental floss
    • Mental
    • Magazine
    • History
    • Media
    • Issue
    • Hattikudur
    • Pearson
    • Dennis
    • Books
    • Year
    • First
    • Mangesh
  • inc. magazine
    • Mental
    • Website
    • Media
    • Issue
    • Print
    • Pearson
    • Books
    • Minute
    • Two
    • Year
    • Company
    • First
  • magazine sections
    • Mental
    • Website
    • Media
    • Issue
    • Print
    • Pearson
    • Books
    • Minute
    • Two
    • Year
    • Company
    • First
  • new media rockstars
    • York
    • Com
    • Minute
    • Mentalfloss
    • Company
    • Trivia
    • Dennis
    • Print
    • Based
    • New
    • Mangesh
    • Mental
  • minute media
    • Minute
    • Company
    • Dennis
    • Print
    • Based
    • New
    • Mangesh
    • Mental
    • York
    • Hattikudur
    • Pearson
    • Website
  • media coverage and awards
    • Minute
    • Company
    • Dennis
    • Print
    • Based
    • New
    • Mangesh
    • Mental
    • Hattikudur
    • Pearson
    • York
    • Books
  • cnn.com
    • Mentalfloss
    • York
    • New
    • Called
    • Trivia
    • Website
    • Minute
    • Company
    • Weekly
    • History
    • Media
    • Hattikudur

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Mental Floss, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Mental Floss with Notable contributors. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Mental Floss — Notable contributors · splits 46 ⟂ 23
Mental Floss — Media coverage and awards · splits 52 ⟂ 17
Mental Floss — Overview · splits 53 ⟂ 16
Mental Floss — Origin · splits 62 ⟂ 7
Mental Floss — Magazine sections · splits 64 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Mental Floss

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples177
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Mental Floss to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies, Notable contributors & Media coverage and awards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Mental Floss · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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