According to one study, we utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute. I think that is a gross (pardon the metaphor) underestimate. Take (there ...

This word, the very last of the story ... Whether this authentic mystical strain is necessarily radically at odds with the socio-political strain, as metaphor may be at odds with verisimilitude, is ...

The DNA revolution may be just too big to take in: beyond words, even 50 years on. Think of four chemical bases coupled exclusively to each other, adenine with thymine, guanine with cytosine, in a ...

Achieving a quantum leap, conceptually The term "bit" is a metaphor. The word suggests that during calculations, a computer can break up large values into tiny ones—bits of information—which ...

Often a simple metaphor communicates better than many words. Back when I taught middle school grades, the students often loved discovering metaphors in real life to analyze their meanings. One ...