Jake Vander Zanden rock, water, papers

摘要

Drop in at Jake Vander Zanden's office, with its mobile of tropical fish and a picture of his wife posing with a lake trout, and you may find him with shoes off and overhead lights out. He's comfortable working by the natural light that filters in from the tree-lined path outside his window, within skipping stone's distance of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin. He's comfortable working under the stage lights, too. In high school he once visited Madison with his rock band, Turbodactyl, when they opened at a small club for a then-little-known group called the Smashing Pumpkins. "There were more people to see us" than the headliners, he recalls.