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History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 20, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Death of the Peter Britannica

Wikipedia is a great source of kind of folk information, like what are the typical names by which something is known. But when it comes to sort of raw systematic data that you can compute from, that's a quite different story. The Wolf Malphur project was based on Mortimer Adler's ideas about breaking down knowledge into pieces.

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