Hello, and welcome to MarshallBrain.com. I am glad you have found your way to this site and appreciate your taking the time to visit.
I am best known as the founder of How Stuff Works and the host of the show Who Knew? with Marshall Brain (see below). I started HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and it has grown to be one of the top Web sites in the country.
I am known for the Robotic Nation essays and the book Manna. The article How to make a million dollars is also very popular. I am known for my book for teenagers entitled The Teenager's Guide to the Real World, now in its tenth printing and selected for the New York Public Library's prestigious Books for the Teen Age list (review). I am also known as a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University, where I taught in the computer science department for 6 years.
Today I am a writer, a well-known national speaker and a consultant. I live in Raleigh, N.C. with my wife Leigh and our four children. Contact information is available at the bottom of this page.
"Who Knew? With Marshall Brain"
From the press release: "On Thursday, March 13, [as well as March 20 and 27] beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT, journey into the world of product design, manufacturing and testing as NGC premieres the first of three fact-filled one-hour episodes of "Who Knew? With Marshall Brain." Our guide on this weekly adventure is Marshall Brain himself, an expert explainer, teacher, columnist and author of the best-selling book "How Stuff Works," who has earned degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science. We travel across the country with him as he finds out what happens when traditional assembly lines collide with cutting-edge technology to build familiar yet extraordinary objects in our everyday lives."
