Metaphors open up our minds – but can also shut them down

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Mon, 28/04/2025 - 20:00

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Mon, 28/04/2025 - 20:00

Photo of a calm lake at dusk with a hippo partially submerged, only its eyes and ears visible above the water’s surface.

The best analogies in poetry and science really crackle, but when do they expand our thinking and when do they constrain it?

- by Claire O’Callaghan