Best quote of the day: Albert Einstein, humorously posits that only the universe and human stupidity are infinite, with a ...

“There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have great admiration for stupidity” – the sentiment behind Oscar Wilde’s bonmot is strangely fashionable these days. Dozens ...

We spend so much time talking about intelligence, pondering what makes someone smart. But what about the other side of that coin? Especially in an Internet-driven world, it is worth taking a few ...

He not only has a PhD in Horrific Human Stupidity but has studied Horrific Human Stupidity his entire life, and spends every second of their life awake in the study of this infinitely broad subject, ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the gym, exercising and musing about an upcoming column, when one of the kids from the front desk ran up to me. “Did you put a lock on a locker?” he asked. I said that ...

The latest technology can prove decisive in war. Think of the atomic bomb in World War II. Or the stirrup in the Mongol conquest of Europe and the Middle East. More recently, after the two sides had ...

"People are generally stupid," I remember making this impulsive remark in one of my high school classes and then noticing the flat look on the teacher's face. On the bus home, I thought about it. What ...

We live in a stupid age. I mean that in the sense of the word given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for whom “stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem.” Stupidity, for Bonhoeffer, ...