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 ...

– There’s no science behind it. Perhaps in some pre-Christian times, those symbols meant something, but they lost their meaning with time. That’s one hypothesis.

Arguments over Canada’s national symbols, from a new flag in the 1960s to new passports two years ago, reveal how deeply some ...

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." ...

1,800-year-old warhorse cemetery held remains of a beloved horse — and a man considered an 'outsider' to Roman society People really can communicate with just their eyes, study finds ...

The snowy-feathered head and distinctive brown body of the bald eagle is a proud national symbol of the United States, adorning the country's currency and passports. The lion, known as 'King of ...

Science needs a universal symbol. In the face of irrational opposition, it's time for the scientific community to have its own bumper sticker. By Paul Root Wolpe ...

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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.

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 ...