Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...

Melvil Dewey is the 19th century librarian who looked at the chaotic state of library shelves and said, essentially, ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...