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Nebraska Cornhuskers mascot Herbie Husker pumps up the crowd during a 2015 football game. Michael Hickey/Getty Images

April 26, 2023

A tweak to the University of Nebraska’s logo shows how the once benign ‘OK’ sign has entered a ‘purgatory of meaning’

Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

Hand gestures are notoriously prone to misinterpretation.

Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone. Joseph Howell, Vanderbilt University

March 13, 2023

Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping the insects recognize, communicate and cooperate with one another

Laurence Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University and Stephen Ferguson, Vanderbilt University

Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.

People line up at a mass vaccination centre during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

May 12, 2021

Public health officials are failing to communicate effectively about AstraZeneca

Sibo Chen, Toronto Metropolitan University

Canadian public health organizations have run into a serious communication problem about the AstraZeneca vaccine. Crisis management and communication theories explain what’s gone wrong.

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion is seen in this December 2011 photo taken on Parliament Hill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

October 1, 2019

Canada’s ethics watchdog may have misinterpreted a key SNC-Lavalin conversation

Dean Mellow, Simon Fraser University and Dasha Gluhareva, Simon Fraser University

A phone conversation at the heart of the SNC-Lavalin affair contained so much miscommunication that it does not constitute persuasive evidence about alleged threats to Jody Wilson-Raybould.

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