Maphead ken jennings summary6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The rest of the book turns out to be not much as well. My ego wanted to see what became of the interview. ![]() You see, Jennings interviewed me by email in his research while writing the book. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I bought this book to satisfy my curiosity. Maphead is his latest offering, this one covering the wide and varied world of maps and the nerds (his word) that like them. ![]() So, like athletes past their prime, he now writes. Since then, he's lost a Jeopardy exhibition contest that pitted him against IBM's supercomputer, Watson. You may remember Ken Jennings as the all-time winningest contestant on the television quiz show Jeopardy. In my case, the Ur-map was a wooden puzzle of the fifty states" You see that first map, and your mind is rewired, probably forever. The way modern mapheads discover maps as children is more like the way cavemen must have discovered fire: as a flash of lightning. ![]()
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