Encyclopaedia Britannica ends print run after 244 years

[DigitalBuddha]

Encyclopaedia Britannica ends print run after 244 years

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.

When its current stock runs out, it will no longer be available in book form.

Facing competition from the internet, the encyclopaedia's publisher is focusing instead on its digital editions.

Look up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17362512

[Caesar dude]

I've just been shown an encyclopaedia Circa early 1900's ...it's fascinating...so many things in it that were unexplained in those days and are now common knowledge.

For instance. There is a picture of Marie Curie in a fur coat standing next to 20 or so Uranium rods...the text reads. "Uranium the miracle substance: When placed against a cancerous tumour the tumour completely withers and dies within a few days. No one has yet worked out how it does this but it does indeed seem to be an infallible cure."

How wrong can science be?

[Landshark]

We must travel back to the early 1900s and get some of these non harmful uranium rods and while we are there we can get some of those healthy cigarettes.

[Caesar dude]

we can get some of those healthy cigarettes.

Yeah dude they are really helpful for coughs and flu I believe... 

[Landshark]

We should also look into that medicinal cocaine, it might help today's drug users get of the bad cocaine.

[Caesar dude]

And what about that great stuff..opium....helps with the writing I believe....just ask Conan Doyle...

[milnie]

ah, the old opium dens. back in the day when governments were more concerned about empire building and wars than trying to preach to people what they could or could not embibe/smoke/snort/etc