The Search for B.C.’s Best Symbol completes its second round today with a series of matchups about man-made provincial icons ...

Keith Houston’s Face with Tears of Joy, a lively account of those little yellow faces, reveals the peculiar science behind their rise ...

Keith Houston’s history of the little emoticons charts how quickly technology has changed how we think and communicate.

Apple released the public beta of macOS 26 Tahoe last Thursday, two days after developer beta 4. Instead of rushing a preview ...

A new book charting the history of the expressive little images shows how fast they have changed how we think – and asks whether they are killing language.