The Greek and Hebrew alphabets share a common heritage and thus have some key similarities. However, there are also ...

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.

Have you tried to type over a line in Microsoft Word, but the text does not stay on the line but keeps on moving and creating space? Are you wondering how to get the text on the line without the line ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

Journey to the Edge of Life, a striking composite of memoir, biography, and criticism, dwells on the connection between art ...

I don’t deny a country, or a club, has the right to control its borders or rules. Sovereignty matters. Rules are necessary.

In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is ...

We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look.

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Usually, an ambigram takes me about an hour from the moment of tackling the challenge with crude pencil sketches until the ...

In Texas classrooms,” he said in a statement, “we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed and prayers lifted up.” Beneath the surface of this quarrel, though, lies a deeper, ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...