For Westerners, numbers and time run left to right. For some Bolivians, any direction will do Consider a ruler, a timeline or even weights lined up in a gym. Why are the smaller values, the earlier ...

Google Maps has recently been updated with support for building numbers, and now it seems the Mountain View-based tech giant has completed the rollout for users out there. In other words, the building ...

Is our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – a cultural invention rather than an innate ability? Members of a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea understand the concept of ...