Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

Definitions of "life" are a dime a dozen. In a paper published back in 2011, University of Haifa biophysicist Edward Trifonov documented 123 of them. But which one is best? Trifonov decided to seek ...

The change came after careful study of "usage patterns of the word woman." Cambridge Dictionary has expanded its definition of the word "woman" to be inclusive of transgender women. In addition to the ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The humanities study the things humans make. That definition is better—more accurate and more ...

(JTA) — When is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Anti-Semitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But ...