In this video, we examine how human societies managed to exceed Dunbar’s number. With the invention of belief in the supernatural came the ability to rally large groups of humans around a common cause. Power-hungry sociopaths have used this as a tool for ...

Back in 1985, Steve Jobs was ousted from his own company, after which he founded NeXT and acquired Lucasfilm, the Graphics Group, which would eventually become Pixar Animation. Founded in 1986, Pixar pioneered the shift from 2D to 3D animation. During the ...

“If you can draw a circle, we can teach you animated cartooning.” Animators, the 1938 ad claims, can earn up $20,000 a year, which would be the equivalent of nearly $700,000 in today’s money. That probably didn’t happen very often, if at all, but ...