We stand on a curb watching a parade. Dignitaries pass in open cars, beauty queens on floats, high school bands march by. Then comes the flag carried with pride. Manyin the crowd stand at attention.

Building upon the foundational insights from From Ancient Glyphs to Modern Rainbow Symbols: A History of Hidden Meaning, we delve deeper into how the significance and application of color have evolved ...

Colors and symbols serve as fundamental components of human communication, shaping societal norms, individual perceptions, and cultural identities. They function as visual languages that transcend ...

Humans have a habit of looking to the cosmos for answers to our most existential questions. Now, the universe appears to have a question of its own, or at least the tail-end of a query. A ...

Single neurons in the primate cortex associate numerical meaning with visual signs, thus providing insight into precursor mechanisms of human symbol acquisition. Single neurons in the primate cortex ...

About 100,000 years ago, ancient humans started etching lines and hashtag patterns onto red rocks in a South African cave. Such handiwork has been cited as the first sign our species could make ...

How has a seemingly straightforward image – an eye set within a triangle – become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists? Matthew Wilson looks at the history of an ambiguous symbol. Conspiracy ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A globe-trotting puppet with a big mission is now taking over the streets of Chicago. Standing at 12 feet tall, Little Amal tells the story of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who is ...