The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...

Have you noticed that Facebook and Twitter users are changing their profile pictures to an image of a red equal sign? The images are in response to the Supreme Court beginning their hearings on gay ...

As an undergraduate major in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University, I had amazing opportunities to interact with scholars from a variety of disciplines, and also plenty of awkward small ...

Bud Light said it with beer cans and Martha Stewart with red velvet cake, as companies and celebrities from Beyonce to George Takei joined millions of social media users in posting and tweaking a ...

War in Europe is a staple topic in the study of history, but there’s one major conflict most history books won’t teach you: the battle of the equal sign, =. These two parallel lines were, in fact, the ...

We covered the rise of the red equal sign marriage equality Facebook meme a few days ago, and now data from Facebook and Google shows how the ubiquitous picture took over the Internet (if but only for ...