"...it may take you longer to nail the perfect clarity-inducing or objection-slaying metaphor than it takes to write the entire rest of the piece. But done correctly, it’s the element that will m

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David Louis Edelman takes a look at these unique classics of genre literature.

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"Books can be broken down into four classes: popcorn, steak, caviar, and celery." An intriguing metaphor, via SF Signal. Can one live on a diet of steak and caviar?

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"...our semantic distinction between irony and metaphor actually corresponds to real differences in how the brain processes those statements." Well, *that* was counter-intuitive

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"I barrel into the Columbine High School cafeteria, pull down the fire alarm, and the kids erupt into chaos." For a change, a review of Super Columbine Massacre by someone who has actually p

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"In essence, I’m saying that the gods are really created by people. They exist, but only insofar as people are willing to believe in them. They’re emergent phenomena."

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"The brain as a whole operates more like a social network than a digital computer ... However, the computer-like features of the prefrontal cortex broaden the social networks, helping the brain b

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BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

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How to use story telling to engage your clients.

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Does God look like you and me? Does he literally sit on a throne in the heavens lording it over us lowly humans? Or are these anthropomorphized metaphors of God purely symbolic, even part of a picture

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Well explaination of what search engine optimization is to a person who uses search engines like Google and Yahoo!, but don't know how they work. SEOBrien - Search & online marketing blog

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http://www.thoughtoffice.com Commentary on TEDTalks video featuring Steven Pinker, speaking on language and thought - the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others.

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