Justin Sherman (@jshermcyber) is a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America. While seemingly innocuous, these kinds of faulty Cold War analogies have led to some plainly wrong thinking about tech ...

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How is a Model T like a dead cow? If you know the answer to that, you understand the power of analogies. And you have more in common with Steve Jobs than you may have realized. In fact, according to ...

Researchers who study belief dynamics often use analogies to understand and model the complex cognitive-social systems that underlie why we believe the things we do and how those beliefs can change ...

"[Trump] is like the blond alien in the 1995 movie ‘Species,’ who mutates from ova to adult in months, regenerating and reconfiguring at warp speed to escape the establishment, kill everyone in sight ...

A person trying to explain a difficult concept will often say, “Well, the analogy is … .” The use of analogies in everyday life aids in understanding and makes everyone better communicators.

John Pollack is a former Presidential Speechwriter. If anyone knows the power of words to move people to action, shape arguments, and persuade, it is he. In Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, ...

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July 25 marks the 120th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), or the War of Jiawu in Chinese. Three days later comes the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World ...

Thomas Edison famously said that genius requires “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Edison’s third criterion for would-be innovators is less well-known but perhaps even more vital: “a logical mind ...