Double first names developed 1) because of the need to create more names for an expanding population; 2) because of the desire to protect a child by giving him a saint’s name in order to secure the ...

BOOK PICK: Catholic Baby Names for Boys and Girls: Over 250 Ways to Honor Our Lady By Katherine Morna Towne Marian Press, 2018 255 pages; $19.95 It turns out that my husband and I, having just had our ...

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In a post that has been circulating online, the author explains the concept of pedigree collapse – the idea that, although the math suggests each generation doubles our number of ancestors, human ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I have been called a little owl, a swan and ...

Rabbi Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, founder of the school of “Prophetic Kabbalah”, was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon Spain, in 1240. In his book Sefer Mafeah HaShemot, Rabbi Abulafia states that in the ...