High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to another, symbols have always mattered. Long before modern locks and alarm systems ...

The disturbed perceptual experiences of delirium, for instance hallucinations and delusions, have been shown to be significantly absent from those of more florid neuropsychiatric disturbances ...

Occultus, the Latin root for “occult,” points to the hidden and the obscured—an apt source for a word steeped in mystery. For centuries after the term’s wider adoption, it has continued to suggest the ...

Charlotte resident Shawn Dumont and his kids, Zoë and Jasper, set up their exhibit, “Peace Signs of Vermont.” Photo by Jessica Voss/The Citizen This story by Liberty Darr was first published in The ...

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

Semiotics is the study of nature and the role of signs in the world. It was developed by scholars such as Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Yuri Lotman. Through these studies, it is ...

Should a teacher be allowed to place a Black Lives Matter sticker on their desk to let students know they oppose racism, or hang a Pride flag from their door to let their LGBTQ students know the ...