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I'm a writer, editor, and digital creator based out of Pittsburgh, PA. After graduating from Point Park University in the spring of 2018, I spent several years working in the food service industry before transitioning to full-time freelance work. From July 2022 to January 2026, I was a staff writer at All That's Interesting and a host for the History Uncovered podcast.

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Did AI kill my job, or open up a next chapter?

When I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 24, it was a revelation. The more I learned about the condition, the more I began to understand myself. Feelings of worthlessness, difficulty focusing, emotional dysregulation — all of it could be explained so easily by the chemical misfires in my brain. If only someone had told me sooner! 

As I began to make sense of these new discoveries, I started writing about them, hoping to provide for someone else the resources I had been missing. I had always...
All That's Interesting

Inside The Real History Of Prohibition And How It Changed The United States Forever

Prohibition was a strange time in American history. Ultimately a social experiment, Prohibition was a constitutional attempt to legislate morality that came with many unintended consequences.

What began as a progressive reform movement championed by temperance advocates and religious groups quickly devolved into a period full of speakeasies, bootleggers, unregulated liquor, and the rise of organized crime.

The so-called “noble experiment” — a term coined by President Herbert Hoover — ended up...
All That's Interesting

Why The U.S. Government Has Enormous Underground Cheese Caves That Hold 1.4 Billion Pounds To This Day

Stories have long spread that somewhere far beneath the United States, the U.S. government is hiding mountains of cheese. While some internet retellings of the story may get some details wrong, there’s more than a kernel of truth in the story of U.S. government cheese caves.

Indeed, there are cheese caves far beneath the ground — largely in states like Missouri — and they do hold over a billion pounds of cheese. However, these “cheese caves” are really more like warehouses, converted from old l...
All That's Interesting

A Conman Just Stole More Than 950 Wheels Of Cheddar Cheese From A Dairy Company In England

Neal’s Yard Dairy, a cheese retailer based in London, was recently robbed of more than 20 tons of cheddar in a sophisticated scam. After the company was approached by a fraudster posing as a legitimate wholesaler, employees shipped 950 clothbound cheeses to France — only to realize the whole thing had been a setup.

As a result, the business took a substantial financial hit of more than $390,000. The theft became even more high-profile when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver got involved, rallying behi...
Discover Magazine

Unpacking The Stigma Around Adult ADHD

It's not hard to see that there's an overwhelmingly negative narrative surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and psychostimulants — drugs that can boost the activity of the body's central nervous — in the United States.

Here's the story we're often told: The U.S. overdiagnoses ADHD and overprescribes these stimulant medications. This phenomenon, which some researchers say is a symptom of hypercompetitive capitalism, will lead to a second “opioid crisis,” where we take drug
Giddy

The History of Abortion Law in the United States

It's fair to say a lot has happened in America within the past 300 years, especially once we declared ourselves an independent nation founded on the prospects of equality and justice for all. Of course, "all" in this instance meant "white, land-owning men," many of whom were only a generation or so removed from the group of Puritans who hanged women for "witchcraft."

It would take nearly another century and a half before women would be allowed to vote, meaning that for about half of our country
Discover Magazine

The Long-Term Effects of Alcohol on Sleep Quality

Many of us are familiar with the experience that is waking up with a particularly bad hangover, the result of too many sugary mixed drinks at a college party or perhaps too many spiked eggnogs at an office holiday party. Hangovers notoriously leave us with headaches, stomach pains, nausea, fatigue, irritability and anxiety; for many, this also means spending the day slumped on a couch with intermittent naps and comfort foods and sports drinks in hand. While hangovers are the most glaringly obvio
All That's Interesting

Why Did So Many Ancient Cultures Believe In Dragons? The Answer May Lie With The Dinosaurs

Mythology and folklore about dragons can be found in a wide variety of cultures throughout history. While specific details may vary, legends about the beasts are among the most pervasive stories humans have ever told. They are so pervasive, in fact, that many have wondered: Are dragons real?

Scientists have generally agreed the answer is a resounding no, yet there is still something peculiar about how widespread the mythological creatures have been in human culture. Today, we can thank the like...

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