Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

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.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer