Thomas Edison is noted in history for his many inventions, including the light bulb. But many people are unaware that he is credited for inventing the ticker tape machine that was used to broadcast ...

How has a seemingly straightforward image – an eye set within a triangle – become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists? Matthew Wilson looks at the history of an ambiguous symbol. Conspiracy ...

I remember a student in my ethics class saying this as we were talking about the importance of symbols in knowing anything. I then joked that if she believed symbols were not important, she should ...

Lauren Collister is a member of the Linguistics Society of America. Of course, language does change when it’s used to text or write messages on the internet. It’s even become the focus of the field of ...