You've seen it pretty much every day now for decades, and you've interacted with it just as many times, but have you ever wondered why the power symbol looks the way that it does? There's a joke that ...

So many of the symbols and icons we use every day are learned without ever knowing the meanings behind them. We just go about our days, pressing and clicking on buttons, without a second thought — and ...

The world is awash in words. In between the hundreds of social media posts, scores of emails and dozens of news articles, a 2011 study by the University of Southern California found that the average ...