You may think that the likes of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are the smartest people who have ever lived, but they ...

On July 13, 1944, in a modest Boston boarding house, William James Sidis was found unconscious. He had suffered a massive stroke and passed away shortly after, marking the end of a life both ...

When William James Sidis was barely 3 years old, the story goes, he taught himself a language: Latin. By the time William (aka Billy) was 6, he had added Russian, French, German, Hebrew ...