The dunce cap has long been a visual symbol of idiocy and punishment but was once seen as something closer to a wizard’s hat. While today we understand the goofy-looking cone hat as denoting ...

MOOSIC, Pa. — Joe is walking around with a dunce cap. See where the name "Dunce" came from. Let's learn something Wham Cam-style. So, he met up with people in Lackawanna County to see if anyone ...

John Duns Scotus, born in the small town of Duns in the Scottish Borders in the 13th Century, took the name of both his birthplace and his family - and ultimately gave it to the dunce’s hat.

Conservatives aren't happy about the latest move by the Obama campaign to undermine his opponent Mitt Romney: an illustration posted on the campaign's Tumblr blog of Mitt Romney in a dunce hat.