Like the Coelacanth and the Rock Rat of Laos And the Nightcap Oak and the Mountain Pygmy Possum We are lazarus taxon. We are back who were never gone. We were here and you never knew. We thought you'd ...

Aristotle concluded in the 4th century BC that “the difference is but slight” between similes and metaphors. After all, the metaphor “he’s a bear in the morning,” means the same as the simile “he’s ...

We use them so much in everyday language that we often don’t even notice them, but metaphors and similes help us think more deeply – and make sense of the world around us, writes Hélène Schumacher.

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...