Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Donald Sobol, the creator of the beloved character Encyclopedia Brown, died last week of natural causes, his family says. He was 87. The first in the Encyclopedia Brown series book was published in ...

Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...

Encyclopedia Britannica is closing the book on its print edition. The move may be the single most powerful symbol to date of our rapidly changing media world, a world in which hard copies of books ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history. “B Is for Breadfruit,” from “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”Credit...Kara Walker Supported by By Celia McGee Celia ...

Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

Ever hear of a former major league baseball player named Archibald Wright Graham? You might know him better by his nickname “Moonlight” Graham. Legend has it that famed novelist W.P. Kinsella was ...

Texas is known for southern hospitality, cowboy culture, and its "don't tread on me" attitude. For more than a decade, the Lone Star State has also been rumored to be home to a ban on the Encyclopedia ...