About one-third of the men (12 of 33) and two-thirds of the women (10 of 14) voiced a different metaphor in which the sperm and the egg are equal parts that meet and form a combined whole. (Several ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

How metaphors help people understand illness Psychologists and linguists say metaphors, which allow us to think about one thing in terms of another, are useful for talking about concepts such as ...