He is the managing editor of The Lever investigative news outlet, and formerly worked as a staff writer for International Business Times and Westword.
[4] He is co-author of The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things Funny, and the forthcoming The Curse of the Marquis: A Notorious Scoundrel, A Mythical Manuscript, And The Biggest Scandal In Literary History.
[5] Starting in 2011, the two created "The Humor Code Project," a two-year, 91,000-mile global search for what makes things funny.
Their travels took them to Tanzania, Scandinavia, Japan, Israel, Peru, and several other destinations in North America.
[6][7] The two maintained multiple blogs about their adventures on Wired, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today.