We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic ...

Eighty-one years ago James Thurber wrote a piece for the New Yorker titled “Here Lies Miss Groby.” Being a humorist, cartoonist, journalist and playwright, known for his light and amusing narrative ...

In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a ...

The stakes are high in the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of the 2010 health law, as countless commentators have observed. In some circles, however, the gambling metaphor has been pushed to its ...