Mangesh & Jason
The New Issue Is Out!
by Mangesh & Jason - August 21, 2009 - 12:13 PM

0805Finally! We’re so excited because we’ve been waiting and waiting to talk about the new issue, and it’s finally out!
This month, we’re covering the world’s 5 gutsiest world leaders—visionaries with great stories who faced down their nation’s most difficult problems. But if people who’ve single-handedly united Europe, saved a South American country from the current economic meltdown, or curbed the spread of AIDS in an African nation don’t interest you (why doesn’t that interest you?), we’ve also packed the issue full of stories that will: Great Christian Art by Really Lousy Christians, The Bizarre History of Lab Mice, What the Meaning of Life Has to Do with Volcanoes,  Why Louis Armstrong Practically Invented Modern Singing (seriously! Frank Sinatra gave him credit for it), The MacGyver Fact-Check, and my personal favorite, The No Budget Diner’s Guide. So, what are you waiting for? Go pick up a copy already!

If you’d rather not schlep all the way down to the newsstand, you can also get the magazine delivered right to you. Just click here, for a full year’s subscription AND a mental_floss t-shirt for a very, very low price. Go ahead and subscribe. Your expanding mind (and your friends here at the _floss) will thank you.

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Comments (15)

  1. OMG OMG OMG!! THIS IS GOING TO BE MY FIRST ISSUE!! I am running to the mailbox when I get home!

    posted by Steven on 8-21-2009 at 12:17 pm

  2. wonderful… thanks for subscribing! The whole issue’s great, but the MacGyver fact-check and the No Budget Diner’s guide are pure brain candy. Enjoy!

    posted by Mangesh Hattikudur on 8-21-2009 at 12:21 pm

  3. I got a couple free copies of the magazine from Jason but I prefer the web site because of the comments and reader interaction.

    If you ever get an interactive online version of the magazine going (as opposed to how it is now), I will be there!

    posted by Sarah in CA on 8-21-2009 at 12:27 pm

  4. Can we get a poster of that cover for the office?

    posted by Jason English on 8-21-2009 at 12:28 pm

  5. Kudos on the cover, Mental Floss! Is the magazine available at airport newsstands? I’m flying from San Francisco to New York and back next week.

    posted by Ronnie on 8-21-2009 at 12:30 pm

  6. Geez, sexist, much?

    You don’t get credit for saying “gutsiest” instead of “ballsiest” when you put it right over an image of a pair of balls.

    I take it Angela Merkel didn’t make your list?

    posted by ttrygve on 8-21-2009 at 12:41 pm

  7. So the leader who curbed the spread of AIDS is GWB, right? Credit where credit is due, of course.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/01/world.aids.day/index.html

    posted by El Zarcho on 8-21-2009 at 12:42 pm

  8. Hey ttrygve,

    How about you read the article before commenting on it’s content or lack of. And yes she did.

    posted by LO on 8-21-2009 at 12:58 pm

  9. When we got the issue yesterday, I bet my husband that someone would get all worked up and complain about the brass balls. Thanks, ttrygve! I’ll be picking the movie tonight.

    But seriously, it’s a great article, and Merkel and the president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, are featured.

    posted by Molly on 8-21-2009 at 12:59 pm

  10. I loved the no budget diner’s guide! I wish my backyard had more clay!

    posted by Witty Nickname on 8-21-2009 at 1:47 pm

  11. I find the sub-title interesting. Normal people who break the rules get fined or go to jail. Leaders who break the rules are considered bold (if their actions can be made popular) or monstrous (when someone trips over the cord to the propaganda machine and there is sudden transparency). Mussolini was once considered “gutsy”, too.

    posted by Justin on 8-21-2009 at 7:33 pm

  12. My parents promised me that I will have a subscription and t-shirt for my 18th birthday (next Tuesday!). I can’t wait to get this in the mail.

    posted by Kady on 8-21-2009 at 8:06 pm

  13. IT’S IN MY HANDS!

    (reCaptcha: be steady. I CAN’T! I’M HAPPY!)

    posted by Steven on 8-21-2009 at 9:54 pm

  14. Yale’s Handsome Dan “moved to England where he won first place at the Westminster Dog Show”???? Dan did indeed take first place at Westminster but he didn’t do it when he was in England — the Westminster Dog Show has been held every year since 1877 in New York City. Just sayin’.

    posted by reddogs on 8-22-2009 at 9:27 am

  15. I just made it to the Panama article. It raised a question in my mind. Does/did John McCain have the ability to run for President of the United States when he was born in Panama?

    posted by Steven on 8-27-2009 at 1:04 pm

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