It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

ACUSHNET — For many local history lovers, there’s nothing more enjoyable than walking around an old burial ground on a pleasant spring or summer day, looking for clues about the lives and times of the ...

Beyonce and Jay-Z shook up the world Saturday with the surprise release of their joint album Everything is Love. While the collaboration may have seemed inevitable—the couple released their first ...

Art theorist, intellectual historian, and cultural scientist Aby M. Warburg mused: Was bedeutet es, sich im raum zu orientieren?, a physical and spiritual mouthful which roughly translates as, “What ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...