That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that people who regularly use sarcasm may actually have a cognitive advantage that's ...

There are two types of tedious advocates for psychedelics: the sanctimonious spiritual type and the sanctimonious scientist type (who is defensive about being mistaken for being the spiritual type).

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

The lack of a sense of humor could mean bad things. In today’s Academic Minute, part of Cornell University Week, David Shoemaker explores why. Shoemaker is professor and interim chair of Cornell’s ...

Scientists aren’t comedians, but it turns out a joke or two can go a long way. That’s according to a new University of Georgia study that found when researchers use humor in their communication — ...