In the early 1600s, pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler put forth his three laws of planetary motion, which, for the first time, provided an accurate and evidence-based description of the movement ...

Whatever the cause, it is indisputable that bureaucrats have a deep suspicion of the way things appear. This suspicion manifests itself in the way bureaucrats write, in their reluctance to say that ...

I stumbled across The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, which are from around 1986 but, from my overwhelming amount of anecdotal data, still hold true. The work is by Carlo Maria Cipolla - an individual ...