For Some Reason The Most Devoted Mapheads

The Thing You Like/are Good At Is A Sacred Thing.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, A Professor Of Political Science At Rutgers University, Has Argued That Geography Seems Less Relevant Than Ever In A World Where Nonstate Actors -- Malleable Entities Like Ethnicities, For Example -- Are As Powerful And Important As The Ones With Governments And Borders. Where On A Map Can You Point To Al-qaeda? Or Google, Or Wal-mart? Everywhere And Nowhere.

You Live Overseas, You See These Exotic Places And You Want To Know About Them. But, Weirdly, It Also Made Me Homesick For All These Very Prosaic Places In America.

Eratosthenes, The Mapmaker Who Was The First Man To Accurately Measure The Size Of The Earth, Was A Librarian.

As Jeopardy Devotees Know, If You're Trying To Win On The Show, The Buzzer Is All. On Any Given Night, Nearly All The Contestants Know Nearly All The Answers, So It's Just A Matter Of Who Masters Buzzer Rhythm The Best.