I’m Matt Soniak, a freelance writer from Philadelphia, PA. I mostly write about science, health and technology, but history and music occasionally get thrown in to the mix. At the moment, the majority of my work appears on mentalfloss.com in the form of a twice-weekly column where I answer questions about the quirks of the universe.

You’re at mattsoniak.com, which serves as a home for my collected articles and a place for me to blog about biological oddities, cool experiments and other things that tickle my brain.