Language has the power to shape the way we think. The words we use to communicate can influence our perceptions, ideas and subsequent choices. One example is the use of metaphors, figures of speech ...

Amid the chaos this week in the British Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred to opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, calling him a “chlorinated chicken” and, oddly, “a great big girl’s blouse ...

Source: "London - Metropolitan Railway / Underground Map 1923 (Postcard)" by Roger W/Flickr, CC BY SA 2.0 Can the use of analogy provide us a deeper understanding of the mind? To draw this out, in ...

One study, from 2010, found that physicians use metaphors in almost two-thirds of their conversations with patients who have serious illnesses. Physicians who used more metaphors were seen as better ...

In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Paul McCartney discussed how he addresses political or social topics in his songs. The former Beatle has written songs like “Blackbird” and “Looking for ...

President Donald Trump holds a copy of the poem “The Snake” prior to reciting it during a “Make America Great Again” rally in Harrisburg, PA, April 29, 2017, marking his 100th day in office. During ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The library metaphor was advantageous for several reasons. First, it allowed us to represent the concept of electronic data or biosamples ...

What is programming? How would you visualize it? Probably a bit like in the Wachowski sisters' film The Matrix (2000): lines of different codes forming a world, or simply a program. But that's not the ...

Metaphors. Figures of speech which compare one thing with another. They do such great work packaging up all that meaning and knowledge. But metaphors are also terrible traps for the unwary, and being ...