There\u2019s a story that occurs constantly in the biographies of many creative and brilliant people. It goes something like this: As a kid they had a question\u2014maybe it was about how car engines work, or what Antarctica is like. It doesn\u2019t matter if the question is about history or science or animals, because their dads all had the same response. They said, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but let\u2019s go figure it out!\u201d So they went to the library or the hardware store or the computer and they dug around and ...