About a 140 or so years ago, while traveling through snowy northern Canada and studying the traditions and lifestyles of the local Inuit people, anthropologist Franz Boas wrote home that the Inuit ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

As a professor and the editor of an academic journal, I read with pleasure William Germano’s clever reflection on the many ways we read (The Review, April 19). I smiled repeatedly as I saw myself in ...

We use words to try to express ourselves, but what if there's really no word for something you really want to say? Maggie Rowe and Emily Garces mind foreign languages for words of which we might make ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

CINCINNATI — It happens every year: The daylight gets shorter, the sweaters come out of storage and then it strikes - the "s-word." And that fateful day could be near, friends. Our 9 First Warning ...