PERHAPS I may claim to be a member of the intellectual class, as I am a college professor of the old-fashioned sort — old-fashioned, that is, in having received a liberal education; but I do not wear ...

Would you accept an offer to lose 15 pounds in a month with no special diet or exercise, enjoy a luxurious Hawaiian vacation for only $199, or earn $5,000 while working from home only three or four ...

The road to authoritarian rule depends on propaganda and gullibility in society. Propaganda is useless without gullible people to accept the propaganda. Authoritarians prey on the gullible to sell ...

IN 1951 at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, social psychologist Solomon Asch staged a telling experiment on groups of eight students. He showed them three lines of different lengths and asked them ...

It may sound insensitive, but folks, there are lot of stupid people in the world. The term “stupidity” is a scientific concept that refers to a specific type of cognitive failure. It does not imply a ...

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Would you accept an offer to lose 15 pounds in a month with no special diet or exercise, enjoy a luxurious Hawaiian vacation for only $199, or earn $5,000 while working from home only three or four ...