Elizabeth Landau

Math provokes dread in so many people—yet we are all born with a sense for numbers.

The late statistics wizard Hans Rosling, who died this month at age 68,  brought at least 10 toilet paper rolls to some of his beloved presentations.  He would stack them into a tower on a table, each roll representing one billion people. In a 2012 talk at the Skoll World Forum, he used the rolls […]

Bodily experiences inform the way we think.