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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the winter, it’s quite common in the mountainous regions for meteorologists to talk about snow “above 5,000 feet” or “above ...

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 ...

across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...

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 ...