Tag: Issue: 2001-07-11

Growing up in the countryside near Charlottesville, Va., with only encyclopedias and classical records as friends, I made a hobby from the gathering of arcane knowledge. I knew my orders of mammals, from Artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed animals) to Tubulidenta (aardvarks). I could spit out useless knowledge on everything from the Devonian period of the geological […]