David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
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June 3, 2021
Sometimes the people who ask celebrities for special favors are themselves celebrities in their ...
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May 28, 2021
This was certainly a new way to "engage with a museum's spaces, its collections, and its history."
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May 22, 2021
Few pitchers in baseball history were as reliable, and as healthy, for as long as Don Sutton.
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May 18, 2021
"My friends tell me the graphics are the best," the blind musician supposedly said. "I don't kno ...
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May 16, 2021
An anti-electric car post shows the results of a failed business model rather than a failed tech ...
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May 8, 2021
Human traffickers are too smart to try to snatch unwitting victims from public parking lots with ...
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May 1, 2021
How would you feel if you had qualified for a performance bonus at your job, but nobody recogniz ...
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April 26, 2021
Series creator Gene Roddenberry reportedly commented, "I want him to wear a wig, because I don't ...
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April 26, 2021
Michael Jackson's estate convinced a judge that the late singer's businesses can't be sued over ...
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April 17, 2021
Whether the statement is true or not, it's one whopping-long street name.
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April 13, 2021
Everything old is new again. Or, vice versa.
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April 13, 2021
The orange "Twin Cities Police Easily Startled" traffic sign depicts a police officer jumping in ...
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April 12, 2021
This was literally a bad translation.
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April 11, 2021
Some things may be of divine origin, but others are purely digital creations.
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April 6, 2021
"Flobar A-Bomb Detergent": Because you never know when you might need to cleanse your exterior o ...
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April 5, 2021
A picture of 69-year-old First Lady Jill Biden deplaning while wearing 'fishnet stockings' touch ...
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April 4, 2021
The Abilene paradox describes a phenomenon under which a group agrees to a decision that is para ...
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April 3, 2021
The rapper, 50, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was at his New York home when he overdosed.
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April 1, 2021
Apparently COVID-related restrictions on restaurants and bars didn't stop Americans from enjoyin ...
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April 1, 2021
An isolated vocal track from "Something" highlights the raw emotion in George Harrison's singing.
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