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Facebook recently added a new twist to its gender options on user profile pages: there are more options than being either male or female. In fact, there are now more than fifty different gender options on Facebook! Strange as it may sound to those who aren’t well-versed in gender studies,

Quotation marks are cool little guys. Not only do they have the ability to indicate dialogue, they have an amazing ability to suggest sarcasm or irony. But if used incorrectly, quotation marks can communicate irony when none is intended. Imagine seeing an advertisement for pizza that said: WE USE REAL”CHEESE.”

Visual rhetoric, in a nutshell, refers to how we are persuaded by the things we see. Rhetoric (particularly in politics) often refers to language, whether written or oral, that is used strategically to persuade people to believe or act in certain way. When people talk about visual rhetoric, you might be inclined

Good visual communicators reach into the depths of culture and listen to its heartbeat. Those who really have the ability to affect an audience recognize not only what the people enjoy, but what they are missing and don’t know it yet. Some argue that designers are the architects of the

Ever wanted to know how people stereotype your gender, age, religion, economic status or national origin? Google Autocomplete gives a pretty good insight.  When you type something into the search engine, Google completes your sentence based on the most common searches for that topic. We wondered: what would we find

Is it appropriate for professors—in the dark corners of university basements where curricula are determined—to label their students as naïve for believing in intelligent design? Sadly, whether tacitly or explicitly, this is a common occurrence among college faculty. Imagine sitting in a room with professors from several departments discussing the

I have a problem. I daydream during class. And I’m the teacher. A couple of my students tonight, in a web design class, were giving short presentations on user experience design. It was fascinating material, stuff I love reading about: why attractive things work better, how we are seduced and

Here’s a joke to get you laughing this morning: A man gets up to go running in the mountains with his dog. The dog can’t keep up and falls over dead. Get it? Neither did I. And neither did most of the people who saw this joke in a running

#1: Be Early While serious earliness isn’t a requirement, the key here is to not be late. At all. Nothing will turn an employer off more than a late employee. Being late communicates a lack of interest, a lack of planning, and/or a lack of awareness (like you didn’t have