It has nearly four million articles in english , many of them on pop-culture topics that would not pass muster in the pages of the encyclopaedia britannica .
它有近400万篇文章,很多流行文化的主题是大英百科全书没有的。
The encyclopaedia is now being hastily rewritten . But it would be nice to think that some of the energy on display could be directed toward bigger issues .
这部百科全书现在正在紧急修订中,但是想到其中一部分精力将被投入到更重要的事件却令人愉快。
He and his wife are downsizing and relocating to california he said and the encyclopaedia britannica will not be coming with them a loss he acknowledges with a hint of wistfulness .
他和妻子都被裁员并搬迁至加州,搬家前必须卖掉大英百科全书,他带着一丝留恋承认这是一个损失。
Wikipedia , the free online encyclopaedia , is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the prophet muhammad , despite being flooded with complaints from muslims demanding the images be deleted .
It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime ( or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the encyclopaedia britannica ) .
According to the stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy , friendship is a " distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other , for the other 's sake , and that involves some degree of intimacy " .
Nicholas jackson - nicholas jackson is a blogger at theatlantic.com and producer for the technology channel . A former media aggregator for slate , his writing has also appeared in encyclopaedia britannica , texas monthly and other publications .
According to the encyclopaedia britannica , the condition is the darkness in an animal 's skin , feathers , or fur is acquired by populations living in an industrial region where the environment is soot-darkened . It can be gene related .
Pham van tinh , of the institute of lexicography and encyclopaedia , argued that " these letters are very popular in many languages in the world " and that people already come across them in science and other areas .