Milk, blueberry muffins, honeycrisp apples, ice hockey, L’etoile du Nord and “Hail! Minnesota.” Each is among 20 state ...

Enlightening Symbols Joseph Mazur Princeton Univ., $29.95 . As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent ...

In 1914, committees of the Physical Society of London, ... Nature - Symbols and Nomenclature in Physical Science. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society ...

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Health Placebos at large: the power of society's symbols. The world is brimming with symbols, including national flags, which trigger a phenomenon akin to medicinal placebos, argues a top psychologist ...

Faculty and students in the Center for Science, Technology and Society systematically address our world’s most pressing technoscientific challenges and their social implications. The Center for ...

But with symbols, we can use a sort of image that represents the concept -- like a heart for love -- which makes the abstract idea more concrete and therefore easier to remember." ...