Mina Nakatani
Location
Los Angeles, California
School
University Of California - Berkeley
Expertise
Cold War, Chemistry, Mythology
- While in college, Mina worked in a lab researching the development and application of magnetic polymers.
- She consulted with an award-winning astrophysicist while writing an article about dark matter.
- After researching various myths, she has crafted her own mythology for use in fictional worlds.
Experience
After spending every moment of free time as a student dreaming of fiction and fantasy, Mina got her first real taste of the writing profession while in college. She spent multiple years as a features writer for the Berkeley Scientific Journal, crafting articles about topics like synthetic polymers and two-dimensional materials, speaking to experts in those fields to do so. She has been a features writer with Grunge for the last two years, where she has been able to explore her lifelong love of some of the strangest periods in history. She has plans to expand her professional achievements and is currently working on a number of short stories.
Education
Mina has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry with a concentration in Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Stories By Mina Nakatani
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In the mid-19th century, Americans were enthralled with an exciting and sometimes deadly new form of high-stakes competition: steamboat racing.
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The vanishing acts pulled by these crown jewels have been shrouded in both mystery and interesting history. Here's what we know about the missing treasures.
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In 1929, toxic gas spread through the Cleveland Clinic, starting fires and causing explosions. The tragic accident was caused, in part, by X-ray film.
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In 2017, suddenly the people of Morocco weren't seeing their once-famous princess. So who is Morocco's missing ghost princess?
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While monsoons are simply a change in wind, they can also bring lots of rain and subsequent flooding, causing disaster.
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The ancient Egyptian deity Anubis was associated with death and the transition to the afterlife, but there are details about this god that are not well-known.
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Oil drilling is a really messy topic and has been for a long time. Here's the dark side of oil drilling and why it's so controversial.
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Sailors really do have quite the collection of superstitions, rituals, and omens. Here are some old sailing superstitions that go back centuries.
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Intended to be a happy celebration, gender reveal parties are now causing some concern. Here are some dark realities associated with gender reveal parties.
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It's not unheard of for ships to just be found in the middle of the ocean, apparently crewed by no one.
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Operation Paperclip was the post-World War II program to poach Nazi scientists and relocate them to the United States. Here's what happened to those scientists.
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Extinction doesn't just apply to the distant past, species are still declared extinct each year. Here are animals that have gone extinct in the past decade.