Much has been said about the remarkable ability humans have to extract meaning from language. That ability is remarkable indeed. In a split second, we perceive a spoken or written word and immediately ...

The ability for humans to discern changes in pitch as they listen to a speaker is essential for extracting meaning from words, and now researchers have identified a set of neurons responsible for ...

A flower is placed by next to the name of a former concentration camp inside the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem. Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters Rabbi Harold Schulweis wrote 30 years ago that the way ...

Always the need has been to stay in the concrete, the practical, the everyday, so as to find hints of the invisible through the visible. The infinite levels in Shakespeare, for instance, make his ...

Sentiment analysis is analytical technique that uses statistics, natural language processing, and machine learning to determine the emotional meaning of communications. Companies use sentiment ...

The writer is an attorney and history professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It is the fifth anniversary of the BP oil spill, the 10th of Charles and Camilla’s wedding, the 20th of ...

This can now lead us together through many forms, at many times, in many places. To begin with, what is a word? If we say to a child, “Be good”, the word “good” has its everyday commonplace meaning.