I recently had the privilege of presenting a paper at the 2024 conference of the International Society of Humor Studies. It was during that meeting that I had the idea of interviewing leading experts ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT was found to repeat certain jokes over and over in a study examining its ability to understand and generate humor. A research paper released by two German researchers on Wednesday ...

If there was a blood test that could predict your behavior — that could anticipate what you were going to do before you did it — would you take it? Is knowing what the future holds a blessing or a ...

You oversleep and have about five minutes to get ready for work. When you get to the office, one of your ever-observant colleagues points out that you’re wearing two different shoes. Do you A) laugh ...

The world’s shortest IQ test, the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), uses three questions to tell if you’re smart enough to go toe-to-toe with bona fide geniuses. It seems easy at first, but it requires ...

Charles Baxter’s new novel, “Blood Test,” is billed as a comedy, and it is a comedy mostly in that it is not a tragedy. Is it funny? Yes, but darkly so; its humor, which is delightful, is wrapped ...