When we learn something new, that information does not exist in isolation. It integrates into the complex landscape of our ...

A glance at the April 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: The mapping of knowledge As the sciences continue to advance into uncharted territory, a new discipline is ...

History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...

This study is part of a project that seeks to take strategic demography “beyond the headcount approach,” using the new information the data explosion has revealed about the human potential in national ...

Magellan perished but a few survivors did return to Spain in 1522 — this was the first recorded circumnavigation of the world. Quite soon, you start seeing the first maps that show a voyage as a line ...

This project will create a practical KM implementation manual that will help DOTs to address workforce challenges, gain efficiencies, and improve resilience to meet changing needs. An initial phase of ...

Discussions of tacit and explicit knowledge, such as that made by Harry Collins (29 May, p 30), often run afoul of the map-versus-territory confusion: the map is an abstraction of the territory, ...