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[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:57 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
>>Where I appear to disagree is on the value of geographic knowledge in
>>the 
>>context of human relations. Knowing that Montana is next to the
>>Canadian 
>>border, with a capital (and major city) of Helena isn't a skill like 
>>solving a differiential equation, but is useful in social situations
>>where 
>>I want to connect with another human being's background. Putting names
>>on 
>>places and arrainging them spatially one of several ways to organize
>>and 
>>help remember people's backgrounds. The applications to travel and 
>>communications related with that subject should be obvious also.
> 
> 
> Its also good for ordering plane tickets.  I had to fly to Montreal and
> for some odd reason I thought Montreal was in CST not EST.  I decided to
> fly out of Montreal at 7:45am.  That was a mistake.  I had to get up way
> too early.

I tend to not worry about memorizing things that I can easily look up. 
Although a paper atlas is not as common these days, it's not a huge 
problem to find a map of the United States with this information.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey