When did we start calling this gesture “flipping the bird?” In Afghanistan, Iran, and a few other countries, the thumb, rather than the middle finger, represents the phallus. Flashing a thumbs ...

Proceed with caution if the subject bothers you.) We've got one more thing to say about "the bird" and singer M.I.A.'s flipping of her middle finger on national TV during Sunday's halftime show at ...

Some might call it superstition, but Joseph says that flipping the bird helps relax Santo before a big race. “It [flipping the bird] calms him down on the blocks for sure,” he said.

Tier-1 suppliers and aftermarket companies are hard at work on gesture recognition technologies that would allow us to control our vehicle systems with a flick of the wrist or a flip of the bird.