"Even before you understand them, your brain is……" — Ken Jennings
"Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps."
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33 Quotes by Ken Jennings
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch…
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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to…
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever…
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Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
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Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core…
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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night,…
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For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
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Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
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There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...
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