Making Numbers Count: The art and science of communicating numbers by Chip Heath Karla Starr

Making Numbers Count: The art and science of communicating numbers by Chip Heath Karla StarrHow many hours' worth of songs are on your Spotify Wrapped this year? How much is your commute time really worth? How do you work out how likely you are to get Covid based on the official statistics? How do your viewing hours track against the most popular shows on Netflix? Whether you're interested in global problems like climate change, and understanding that the Australian wildfires destroyed an area twice the size of Portugal, or just grasping how

sizzling romance

As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur

But the window keeps opening wider

and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

and it will forever change how you think about thinking

Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece

and introduces the now-famous concepts of the color line

In this Penguin Classics edition

There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia

Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as 'Hindoo Stuart'

so begin your journey now

we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence