Easter is the only holiday where putting all your eggs in one basket is encouraged. I’m not just good at finding Easter eggs, ...

What’s a physicist's favorite food? Fission chips. Science may have earned a reputation for being dry and serious. However, ...

Juggling life and work as an artist feels like trying to juggle a live, squirming human child and Schrödinger’s theoretical cat. I read and reread Philip Roth’s book to try to understand the ...

By conveying a scientist’s approachable side while maintaining factual accuracy, humor might help reframe complicated research subjects.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

I have cracked up at bons mots, but also at dirty jokes ... are always funny to me, especially their mouths when they’re talking. I remember telling a friend about a Booth cartoon featuring ...