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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

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 ...

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

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 ...