If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, ...

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to ...

Not being a tweeter, I rarely think about the octothorpe, now known more commonly as a hashtag. I do mark students’ papers by hand, though, and one thing I tend to insert — when no one is spelled as ...

Jedidiah 'Jedi' Alex Koh is the Founder of Coaching Changes Lives, Asia's leading Coaching Firm Specializing in Team Leadership Development. Leadership renewal and succession planning has been, and ...

From the Romans to Twitter, the hash sign – or octothorpe – has had a rich history, and now this innocuous little character has found a mighty resurgence as the hashtag. What happened along the way?

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the ...

As athletes from around the globe gather in Paris and its environs for the XXXIII Summer Olympics later this month, ask yourself: How would you like it if you won gold medals in two of the Olympics’ ...

An investor proposes a merger between Barnes & Noble and Borders. How Herman Melville saves us from post-Nietzschean nihilism. Palle Huld, the elusive real-life inspiration for Hergé's tufty-haired ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The technology field is ripe with peculiar acronyms, vendor names and abbreviations. To compound ...

The annual New Ventures BC (NVBC) competition has faced some growing pains in recent years. “The challenge we’ve had is that as we’ve become bigger, with more companies and more judges to manage, it ...