A water tower is easy to recognize and surprisingly easy to overlook. Its outline may carry a town’s name, mark a highway exit or appear above the trees on a familiar journey. Beneath that ordinary silhouette sits a question worth asking: why spend so much effort lifting something as heavy as
Across a street, a flag can become a single patch of colour. Move closer and stars, lettering or an elaborate crest appear. The object has not changed, but the information available to you has. That small experience raises a surprisingly useful question: what should a public symbol communicate before we know its story? In his […]
Play a chord and several notes arrive together. Look at a recording of that moment and you may see one complicated waveform. The picture can seem almost unhelpful: where did the individual sounds go? A musical experience that feels easy to recognize has become a line whose movements are difficult to interpret. Grant Sanderson’s 3Blue1Brown […]


















