In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper. By Jing Tsu When you purchase an ...

In a YouTube video called “Teens React to Encyclopedias,” one kid comes up with the definition of encyclopedia as “the internet in books”; another says that “it was Google way back in the day. . . it ...

Eric Frank spent 11 years in the dead-tree textbook industry, shimmying his way up the trunk to the branch labeled "Director of Marketing" for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, with 160 sales reps ...

What is it that makes humans so good at creating new ideas and technologies? According to this latest study, a vital role in the process is played by an often overlooked cognitive ability: our ...

One of a company’s greatest assets is the vast experience, knowledge and wisdom accumulated within the organization. This wealth of information—often called institutional memory or tacit ...