Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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Despite initially denying that it would do so, the U.S. Coast Guard has changed its workplace harassment policies to downgrade swastikas and nooses — symbols which threaten violence against Jewish ...

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The difference between wealthy people today and the upper middle class in the 90s is the wealth gap. In the 90s, more people could afford some of the basic status symbols they sought out in their ...

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The U.S. Coast Guard is scrambling to clarify proposed internal policy changes that appeared to loosen how the service branch handles the conduct within its ranks involving hate symbols including ...

The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is denying claims that it has downgraded its stance on hate symbols like swastikas and nooses following internal policy changes set to take effect next month. In a statement to ...