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 ...

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 ...

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.

In a folk story told by the Sufi poet Rumi, an elephant is described in myriad ways depending on the observer. Eventually, each person’s viewpoint is acknowledged as “right” — each person sees the ...