THIRTY years ago I contributed to a New York magazine an essay upon analogy. It is a little curious that, so much later in life, my mind should again turn to that subject. Looking over what I then ...

Analogies are the comparison of one thing with another, most commonly with the goal of explaining or clarifying a certain concept. Like a well-chosen metaphor, a good analogy can be a great tool for ...

Leonardo da Vinci is rightfully regarded as a genius for his fabulous paintings, medical discoveries, and original technologies, all described in Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography. Isaacson ...

Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach inspired legions ...