Author: Charles Humphreys

How to walk the line between futurism and absurdity, or why the satellite is more important than the A-bomb.

What Dutch highways have to do with Canadian documentaries and the psychology of protests.

Remarkable, deeply inspirational graduation addresses by Steve Jobs, J. K. Rowling, Jeff Bezos, Meryl Streep and Robert Krulwich.

Tina Fey, awkward and hilarious as ever, strikes at Google.

A musician translates each of pi’s first 31 decimals into a note and performs the piece on various instruments to a tempo of 157 beats per minute.

The story of a 1930s system for capturing quantitative information in pictograms that shaped much of today’s visual language.

Nearly 3 decades ago, Sagan touches on a number of today’s most critical issues, from international politics to our dependence on fossil fuels, as he explores the universe and our place within it.

Simple, timeless wisdom from one of the most visionary entrepreneurs of the twentieth century.

A brief history of visualizing the brain, from antiquity to the 21st century.