Career
He is the co-author of, a former staff writer for Westword, Denver"s alternative newsweekly, and has also written for Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Boston Globe, Slate, Grantland, and other publications. In 2010, Warner met Peter McGraw, a professor at the University of Colorado. Warner was fascinated by McGraw"s research and unified theory of humor, the Benign Violation Theory.
Starting in 2011, the two created "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. McGraw and Warner authored, a book about their travels and the experiments they conducted along the way.
The two maintained multiple blogs about their adventures on Wired, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today.
