The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one ...

A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking ...

The modern Greek alphabet is missing some of the letters used in ancient times. What are these missing letters, and what ...

Presumably, the philologically basis for this connection is the interchangeability of the letters CHET and TET (which are consecutive in the Hebrew Alphabet). Rabbi Pappenheim writes that all of ...

"Dead Language," expanded from an Oscar-nominated short, delves deeper into how words sometimes fail us, and better ways to ...

Hammer, senior editor-at-large at Newsweek and a prolific lawyer and podcaster, offers a highly readable and convincingly ...

The contents of a long-lost letter written by 19th century explorer David Livingstone have been deciphered by a US-British team of academics and Step into a world where the truth shines bright, and ...

If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line ... but I'm going with it. The alphabet isn't like ice cream flavors or musical acts -- no new, trendy letters have been introduced ...

As we close out both Women’s History Month and CHamoru Month, we like to recognize Dr. Annie U.Bordallo as she continues to make history as Guam’s first CHamoru female obstetrician ...

Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the ...

More than 20 million people watched the Service on television, outnumbering the radio audience for the first time. The BBC knew the event would be popular – based on the reaction to the limited ...

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among ...