‘The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing,” wrote the distinguished American philosopher E. A. Burtt nearly a hundred years ago in his classic and frequently republished ...

This film image released by IFC Films shows Rosemarie DeWitt, left, and Emily Blunt in a scene from "Your Sister's Sister." (AP Photo/IFC Films, Tadd Sackville-West) This film image released by IFC ...

Alarmed by a drumbeat of shrinking bird and butterfly populations, dying pollinators, and invasive pests and plants, gardeners are embracing the idea that their own landscapes can help. The National ...

Television, obviously, is a medium of pictures. Yet for many, many years, owing to technical, practical and economic reasons, the pictures were not much to look at: flatly lighted, stolidly framed, ...

PLAYA VISTA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In our daily life we’ve become accustomed to seeing words like ‘organic,’ ‘all-natural’ or similar catch phrases on an increasing number of food ...

The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives.

"We deplore efforts to degrade human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation. We are committed to separation of church and state." - ...