Christopher Columbus returned in 1493 from his first voyage with a bit of gold to entice royal support for future explorations. But far richer in importance, according to historian Joyce Appleby ...

Simon Garfield’s new book, “All the Knowledge in the World,” is a fascinating history of the encyclopedia and what we have lost as it becomes obsolete.

[Read an excerpt from Klosterman’s new book, “But What If We’re Wrong?”] Klosterman’s strong suits are writing about rock music and contemporary culture.

John Gribbon reviews "The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning," by Marcelo Gleiser ...

The life and death of the encyclopedia is recounted in Simon Garfield’s excellent new book. Mr. Garfield, an Englishman in his early 60s, is lucid, witty, learned and clearly a bibliomaniac, who ...

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Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.

Science and reason generate reliable knowledge about the world, but they have their limits. Exploring them can shed light on what knowledge really is, and should help us gain more of it ...

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – For co-owner Patrice McKinney, Source of Knowledge is more than a bookstore. "It's an institution of learning. I get to meet my family every day, the customers, and ...

Officials at the Department of the Interior are pushing to finalize a new "implementation handbook" to guide agency decision makers on how to "apply indigenous knowledge" in their day-to-day work.

Without those systems, America could find itself plunged into a new Dark Age. Perhaps the most prominent targets of the attack on knowledge have been America’s institutions of higher education.