Around the world in 280 seconds
How my youngest learned to how to spot every country on the globe. Plus: 'Tár' and 'She Said'
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It never fails to astonish me, but Youngest Master Weisman can look at a blank map of the world, all 190 or so countries, and fill every one of them in within five or six minutes.
A few things account for this, but No. 1 among them is the online game GeoGuessr. In this game, you are shown Google Street View images from around the globe that sometimes seem impossibly obscure, but based upon any clues you can find, you try to pinpoint exactly where they are. Not only the correct country, not only the exact town, but within a football field of the exact spot.
Fascinated, I’ve watched Youngest Master Weisman play, and I decided to ask him what makes it tick. Here is our interview:
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