Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching, and design controversies continue to follow the preparations at every stage. After all the jokes about the logo design and the mascots, the ...

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

Today we look at pictograms, symbols that say a lot without any words. Let’s see how many of these communication icons make universal sense. A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing a ...

Since it was a situation at that time that it was difficult to communicate in English at the time of the Tokyo Olympic Games, this "Pictogram","Graphical symbols"Pictograph" "Picture word" is what is ...

One breathtaking performance just transcended all language barriers at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. When the capital of Japan first hosted the Olympics in 1964 — the first time the Games were ...

The design of materials and handouts is a problem, but Mr. Dayama of Topecon Heroes, the creator of ' Balloon Design ', said, 'If you want to go home early, let's finish the work quickly and go home.' ...

Say you're in Tokyo and need to find a police station. If you weren't raised in Japan, you probably wouldn't know to scan your map for an "X." The symbol, meant to resemble crossed police batons, is ...

A 50-page codex of colorful, complex pictograms that dates to the early 16th century includes the most complete — and one of the oldest — written chronologies of early earthquakes in the Americas.