Last month, Peabody hosted Music Mind Meaning, a conference designed to bring together leading scholars and artists to explore the relationship between music and science. The two-day event took place ...

Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers. We make choices about ...

A MAJOR virtue of good writing is the way it moves smoothly from one sentence to the next, using appropriate reference words to guide readers along the way and keep them from getting lost and ...

When a state appeals court affirms a lower-court ruling without an opinion, is it endorsing the decision below? Is it rejecting it? Does the answer depend upon the nature of the lower-court ruling?

It’s one of humanity’s biggest questions, and there’s no simple answer, but let’s give it a try anyway: what is the meaning of life? We asked a philosopher and a physicist to shed some light on the ...

In the previous two columns we took up these three reference word strategies to enliven our writing and avoid needless repetition — (1) the use of repeated action words, (2) the use of sequence words, ...