In fact, English and Eskimo have about the same number of root words for snow – think: ‘snow’, ‘blizzard’, ‘sleet’, ‘slush’, ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

“A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed Alopecia LP, WHY? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow. The two records are each other’s perfect foil: While last year’s release found Yoni ...

across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...

FRANZ BOAS didn’t mean to spark a century-long argument. Travelling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, the anthropologist simply wanted to study the life of ...

EVERYONE KNOWS the Eskimos have dozens, if not hundreds, of words for snow because of their intimate knowledge of their environment. Except that everyone cannot “know” this, because knowledge requires ...

Researchers have taken a fresh look at words for snow, taking on an urban legend referred to by some as 'the great Eskimo vocabulary hoax.' That old trope about there being at least 50 Eskimo words ...

In the hot state of Texas, Eskimo Hut customers are drawn to the c-store's cool attraction -- frozen daiquiris (branded Eskimo Snow) to go. Over four decades ago, the concept started out as a single ...

French writer-director Sébastien Betbeder's movie, filmed in France and Greenland and screening in the Panorama sidebar, focuses on a fearless explorer who must end up "confronting her own existence." ...