The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.