Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

The point of the essay is to change things.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.