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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...