One of the coolest and most unique things about being a human being is the capacity to reflect on, share, and refine our explicit knowledge systems. Other animals have implicit knowledge systems that ...

Everybody my age wanted to be an archeologist. I used to look out of the windows of our 1967 Buick Skylark hoping I'd spot dinosaur skeletons when we went for Sunday drives. (This was on the south ...

There are plenty of common knowledge facts we don't realize we don’t know until someone points them out. For instance, ask most people which planet is closest to Earth, and they’ll probably say Mars.

Google’s Knowledge Graph is quickly becoming one of the key features of the company’s search engine, and the company added yet another area of information to the project. Starting now, users who ...

Google’s semantic-search base, which it uses to supplement organic search results with summarized information typically foregrounded above the organic results, is getting an injection of medical facts ...

From penicillin and anesthesia to saccharin and silly putty, chance played a major role in some of the world's great... You don't want your kids to think you're a dinosaur—bring your knowledge up to ...

Yesterday's smorgasbord of articles burped up by my daily aggregation checkpoint, Arts and Letters Daily, included a piece from The Weekly Standard on The Great American Novel by Roger Kimball. It's a ...

We all recognize that iconic logo, but it wasn't always a classic cherry color. Here’s the real reason why the... The man on the can has a name you won't forget. Here's the surprising history behind ...