That's the metaphor, the old metaphor.

The metaphor that I like to use is the metaphor of the circular mill.

A Metaphor for Obama

(Used as a metaphor.)

(Used as a metaphor.)

This is not a metaphor.

They use Mobutu as metaphor.

Their central metaphor is a loom.

This is the mathematics of metaphor.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

But this is how metaphor misleads.

This formula works wherever metaphor is present.

Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden.

You know, what's his metaphor for performance?

And this is art. This is metaphor.

The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga.

So here's the metaphor I'm offering today.

There was no metaphor. Was it a database?

What is the appropriate new metaphor for aging?

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us.

My story is the power of a metaphor.

So I'd like to conclude with a physical metaphor.

So, then I thought a calculator is a metaphor.

I'd like to end with a little metaphor here.

And in a way that's a metaphor for life.

And I'm like, What is this jacked up metaphor?

And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well.

Metaphor matters because it opens the door to discovery.

To think about culture variation, let's try a different metaphor.

And now I can't get I can't shake the metaphor.

I want you to think about illusion as a metaphor.

Metaphor also matters because it influences decisions by activating analogies.

But before it was fossil poetry language was fossil metaphor.

And it uses this metaphor of an interactive night sky.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

But in fact, this metaphor of decline is often very misleading.

There's a metaphor which I love living like a drawing compass.

Metaphor matters because it's around us every day, all the time.

And it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world.

So let's return from the heights of metaphor and return to science.

And, all right, I'm kind of milking the metaphor a little bit.

And I think it's a nice metaphor also for the 21st century.

Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

And so I'm going to use, as the metaphor, this association quantum mechanics, which I really don't understand, but I'm still gonna use it as the process for explaining how it is the metaphor.