I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

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.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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I have always loved maps.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.