Alex Tabarrok points to a new paper this morning that should thrill data nerds and chart enthusiasts everywhere. Steven Piantadosi of the University of Rochester has produced a simple equation with ...

Comedian Joz Norris shows us all how to draw an elephant in a new online sketch. But it's fair to say it doesn't all go to plan, and his attempts make him increasingly stressed out.

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what such ...