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 ...

Summary: A new study has isolated the foundational cognitive engine driving human creativity and technological advancement.

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 ...

The Unified Theory Of Knowledge offers a consilient approach to psychology and philosophy for the 21st century. In this series of posts, I am going to lay out how to think about human knowledge. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated ...

Knowledge worker: Someone who generates value through their knowledge. Globally, the world has more than 1 billion knowledge workers. They are essential to the global economy, as their roles have ...