Dave Shaw remembers when the encyclopedia salesman came to his family's rural Cass City home -- in Michigan's thumb -- nearly 35 years ago. Shaw was 9 years old, and had persuaded his parents to get a ...

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 ...

The big picture: The information superhighway sounds like the ideal place to learn about virtually anything and for the last few decades, that's been an accurate assessment. In recent years, however, ...

Spotted in a recycling bin a few floors beneath my office at UVic: an overflowing pile of old books. After tripping down four floors, I discovered the bin contained a bunch of volumes of the 1910-1911 ...