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 ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

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 ...

DR. CUSACK is a firm believer in the decimal system, and there can be no doubt that he speaks with some authority, in view of the great experience he has enjoyed of teaching arithmetic and other ...

Family history researchers are well aware of the Dewey Decimal System. The system started in the 1870s and is used in more than 200,000 libraries in 135 countries. Depending on the topic and author, ...

On December 10, 1851 Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this name, Dewey gave us the Dewey Decimal System that many libraries still use today to organize their ...

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...