In 2014, chemist Floyd Romesberg, of the Scripps Research Institute, synthesized a new pair of artificial nucleotides and got a cell to accept them as part of its genetic code. In metaphorical terms, ...

What’s the most persuasive way to convey a message? Many writers say, “Tell a story!” Nothing hooks like narrative. I’ve said so myself. But research shows stories have a rival for hooking power: ...

As a synesthetic overwriter who smokes a healthy amount of weed, let me start by saying that I get it. Music writing—particularly the type provoked by genuine passion—begs the metaphor, and the ...

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination” — Fitzhugh Dodson, clinical psychologist “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and ...

In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard commented on her experience of writing from a variety of angles, sometimes crystal clear, sometimes opaque. She’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and poet who ...

We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions are a fact of professional life. The law is littered with them. Think of the legislative process, intellectual ...

How can exploring and analysing music and metaphors help us to better understand management, work organisations, working lives, and ultimately ourselves too? As you set out on your journey through ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...