From bathroom placards to “slippery when wet” signs along the highway, our day-to-day lives are filled with symbols. We decipher these ideograms hundreds of times a day without even thinking about ...

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It's a daily task, but when sorting through your clothes for the wash, you might not have realised there's a wealth of information provided for you to decipher. Every piece of clothing has up to five ...

it's something you do every day but sorting through your clothes for the wash, you might not have realised there's a lot of information provided for you to pick through and some of it could be quite ...

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