In a recent episode of Decoder Ring, Willa Paskin explores how and why cute poop has invaded pop culture. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity. In 2015, the makers of the Squatty ...

It turns out you can have too many emoji. Where the small pictographs were once useful in portraying and simplifying the expression of common emotions/things/places, it now seems humanity is set on ...

The international body that decides which new emoji to bring to our keyboards is getting itself into a right fuss over a frowning pile of poop. New emoji are approved every year by the Unicode ...

Lobster. Peacock. Hiking boot. Lacrosse stick. Microbe. These are a few of the 67 proposed emoji for the next batch of pictographs due in 2018. Each image must be debated and voted on by the Unicode ...